Research Projects
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4-year Doctoral Program; Stipends: $33,413/year; Conference support: $5,000; Industry placement; Advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Sexton
Psoriasis is a skin autoimmune disease that affects 2-3% of the global population. Around half of the patients carry the major risk gene for...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
This project investigates the novel architecture of the power system found in a bacterial flagellar motor specialised for locomotion in viscous...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Studies in the Ryan lab involve understanding how protein complexes are built and how mutations in proteins cause defects in assembly. Our models are...
Supervisor: Professor Mike Ryan
A cardinal feature of adaptive CD8+ T cell (also known as killer T cells) responses to infection is the rapid initiation of a proliferative response...
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Turner
This project aims to determine the molecular structure of the interface between novel peptide self-assemblies and
cell membranes through x-ray...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
Bacteria secrete vesicles that traffic toxins to mitochondria of macrophages. This project will investigate how vesicle-delivered toxins kill...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Naderer
The neural pathways that mediate appetite control many other functions, including mood, motivation, memory, attention and arousal, suppression of...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Lockie
RNA sequencing technologies enable the simultaneous detection of tens of thousands of genes, providing researchers with a powerful tool for...
Supervisor: Professor Wei Shi
Binocular rivalry refers to the perceptual alternation that occurs every few seconds when conflicting visual stimuli are presented, one to each eye....
Supervisor: Dr Steven Miller
Single-cell analyses are at the leading edge of technological development for cell biology. And, transcriptomics analyses at single-cell resolution...
Supervisor: A/Prof Traude Beilharz
Background: Cell-based therapeutics have made advances in recent years. One of the most clinically studied products in regenerative medicine is...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
Obesity is an enormous health concern, both in Australia and worldwide. Our laboratory recently published a function for the ETS-5 transcription...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterised by extreme self-control, partly generated by exaggerated prefrontal cortex activity, which leads to inflexible...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
Transitive inference is a fundamental cognitive function and the basis of deductive reasoning that allows one to derive a relation between objects/...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
Central neural circuits subserving nutrient–activated thermogenesis - the basis of post prandial energy expenditure
The ability to treat overweight...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
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
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