Research Projects
We are interested in defining the biological principles that define connectivity between cells in the primate brain. This requires information about...
Supervisor: Professor Marcello Rosa
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
We are recruiting talented and motivated PhD students to join an ARC-funded research program investigating how the brain transforms sensory...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
Our research program aims to establish the causal role of specific brain regions and neurotransmitters across different phases of motor skill...
Supervisor: Associate Professor James Coxon
Unaccustomed eccentric exercise can induce exercise-induced muscle damage, typically characterised by transient reductions in maximal force,...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Dawson Kidgell
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
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
This PhD project will investigate how principles of brain computation can inform the next generation of AI, and how AI can help explain neural...
Supervisor: Professor Adeel Razi
Our laboratory is internationally recognised for developing cutting-edge computational tools for the advanced analysis of next-generation sequencing...
Supervisor: Professor Wei Shi
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: 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