Research Projects
Despite enormous progress in research, cancer remains a devastating disease worldwide. Since generally not all patients will respond to a specific...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
In this project, we will investigate the neural basis of conscious through the extensive analysis of the behavioural, electrophysiological or brain...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nao Tsuchiya
In this project, we will investigate the neural basis of conscious through psychophysical testings of healthy human subjects, primarily through...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nao Tsuchiya
A blow to the head causes a number of behavioural, cognitive, emotional, sensory and motor problems. We are interested in the brain changes that...
Supervisor: Professor Ramesh Rajan
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has a mortality rate 12 times higher than the annual death rate from all causes in females aged 15 to 24. Currently, there is...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
Cancer cachexia is the progressive loss of body weight, accompanied by loss of appetite, which affects around 80% of cancer patients. Inappropriate...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Lockie
We are constantly bombarded with sensory information, and our brains need a mechanism to filter out necessary information. The process of visual...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Hagan
How do brain waves control cognitive processes? Using a combination of in vivo electrophysiology and sophisticated cognitive paradigms of working...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Damage to primary visual cortex will cause cortical blindness, a condition where patients no longer have conscious visual perception in the parts of...
Supervisor: Dr Leo Lui
Neural stem cells (NSCs) offer great promise as a neuroprotective therapy against a range of neurological conditions, like cerebral palsy. NSC...
Supervisor: Dr Courtney McDonald
Ageing is associated with a progressive decline in muscle force production, which extends beyond muscle atrophy to encompass neural mechanisms that...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Dawson Kidgell
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with knee pain, loss of quadriceps strength and reduced functional performance. Knee pain inhibits muscle...
Supervisor: Dr Luke Perraton
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Current therapies for epilepsy are symptomatic, only suppressing the symptoms (seizures), but do not impact the development or progression of disease...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
Tuberous sclerosis, or “tuberous sclerosis complex” (TSC), is a lifelong genetic disorder that affects millions of individuals. TSC is manifest in...
Supervisor: Dr Charles Bayly-Jones
Pneumonia is highly prevalent and often deadly in stroke patients, raising the possibility of weakened lung immunity after stroke. The focus of this...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Connie Wong
Industry-Academia PhD Position
New tools for immunopeptidomics
An opportunity for an outstanding PhD candidate to undertake a collaborative...
Supervisor: Professor Anthony Purcell
People may develop epilepsy at any time throughout their life, and there are many different causes of epilepsy. This study will identify whether...
Supervisor: Dr Emma Foster
Direct clinical relevance: high. Hands-on learning opportunities: Various aspects of work with mice and or human specimens, workup of tissues for...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold