Research Projects
Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) and passively sensed behavioural data captured from individuals mobile phones will be used to observe a range...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Catchlove
Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) is a non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique used to assess cerebral blood flow (CBF). There are many...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
This PhD or MPhil opportunity is perfect for a clinician who has an interest in paediatric health in Australia, has contemporary pain knowledge and...
Supervisor: Professor Cylie Williams
Endometriosis is a chronic disease characterised by growth of cells in ectopic locations and chronic inflammation. This project looks to 1)...
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Cousins
Proteins containing a PHIST (Plasmodium helical interspersed sub-telomeric) domain constitute a multi- member family that are present in the most...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
The mechanisms by which Babesia bovis causes severe disease in susceptible cattle are not well understood, however, it is clear that alterations to...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
For the majority of Intersex cases the underlying genetic aetiology is unknown. In males Sox9 is a critical ‘hub’ gene involved in sexual development...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Acinetobacter baumannii has been identified as one of the top three dangerous Gram-negative hospital pathogens as it can cause a range of life-...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
Our research program is focused on fibroblast-like stromal cells found in secondary lymphoid organs and tumours. These cells create the structure on...
Supervisor: Dr Anne Fletcher
The release of extracellular vesicles (EVs) is a property that has been conserved by both multi- and unicellular organisms during evolution. One of...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
This project will investigate the machinery involved in mitochondrial fission and fusion and the relationship between mitochondrial dynamics and...
Supervisor: Professor Mike Ryan
Lipids are key biological molecules essential to life. Lipidomics is the characterisation and study of the complete lipidome of a biological system (...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
Background:
Our group is involved in an Australia-wide program (www.kidgen.org.au) which aims to identify novel causative genes in patients with...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ian Smyth
Endometriosis is a chronic disorder that has a major impact on quality of life. Despite its high prevalence, there is a lack of understanding of its...
Supervisor: Adjunct Prof Caroline Gargett
Characterising novel virulence mechanisms in the emerging hospital-acquired pathogen;
Acinetobacter baumannii
(A/Professor John Boyce, Dr Faye...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
We discovered 2 types of adult stem cells in human endometrium – epithelial progenitor and mesenchymal stem cell (eMSC) - likely responsible for its...
Supervisor: Adjunct Prof Caroline Gargett
Upper extremity kinematics are important for understanding functional ability and performance improvements for adults in stroke rehabilitation. The...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
It is now well-established that the cancer stroma, including cancer-associated fibroblasts, plays a major role in development and progression of this...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Daly
The microbial communities associated with every surface of our bodies are incredibly diverse, yet we know practically nothing about the majority of...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster