Research Projects
Monash University is seeking a high-calibre and ambitious PhD candidate to work in the sports industry examining the relationships between sleep,...
Supervisor: Dr Elise Facer-Childs
The number of emergency service personnel reporting sleep problems is high (due to shift work schedules, stress, etc.). So too is the proportion of...
Supervisor: Dr Alexander Wolkow
Sleep is a major concern of clients undergoing detoxification and withdrawal from many drugs including alcohol, illicit substances, and prescription...
Supervisor: Dr Rowan Ogeil
Interstitial lung diseases (or ILD) are a group of chronic lung scarring diseases, which is the second leading cause of death due to chronic lung...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Yet Hong Khor
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) affects up to one in five Australians. It is caused by repetitive collapse of the airway during sleep, causing...
Supervisor: Dr Melinda Jackson
Most behavioural and health risk research focuses on individual characteristics, ignoring the potential effects of social networks. For example, a...
Supervisor: Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is generally due to abnormalities either in a protein called tau (45%) or a protein called TDP-43 (45%). In both types...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. Whilst we are seeing an increase in the availability of targeted therapies,...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Gough
Spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical network activity: the link between micro- and mesoscale activity
Spontaneous synchronization is a common phenomenon occurring in diverse contexts, from a group of glowing fireflies or chirping crickets in a field...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
The production of sperm and male fertility are dependent on a population of cells found in the testis known as spermatogonial stem cells or SSCs....
Supervisor: A/Prof. Robin Hobbs
We have identified specific sphingolipids that control brain development and protect the nervous system throughout life. This exciting project will...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
The Combes laboratory has opportunities for postgraduate research projects in animal and stem cell models of kidney development and disease, advanced...
Supervisor: Dr Alex Combes
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus continues to increase worldwide leading to premature mortality. About 30% of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)...
Supervisor: Professor Sharon Ricardo
Epilepsy is a serious neurological condition which is characterised by spontaneous seizures, or 'fits'. Current medications are effective...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Our lives are constructed in narrative and the illness narrative in particular, forms an important part of that story. This project will, through...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Simmons
Each year, one in three Australians aged over 65 falls. As the incidence of falls and fall-related injury increases, the likelihood of admission to...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
This project examines how weight gain is affected by stress and the bidirectional relationship between mind and body in stress, metabolism, comfort...
Supervisor: Dr Kevin Lee
Eukaryotic transcriptional co-activators are multi-subunit complexes that both modify chromatin and recognize histone modifications to control gene...
Supervisor: Dr Dominika Elmlund
The immune system comprises a variety of effector cells that are uniquely poised to recognize infected or transformed cells. However, the capacity of...
Supervisor: Dr Richard Berry
The majority of cancer deaths are attributed to metastases rather than the primary tumour. Therefore, the development of new therapeutics targeting...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Andrew Ellisdon