Research Projects
Natural products are structurally interesting molecules (metabolites) produced in nature by organisms such as bacteria, fungi and plants. The unique...
Supervisor: Dr. Lauren Murray
It is now well appreciated that adipocytes are not simply fat storage cells, but can be subdivided into white, brown and ‘beige’ cells, with the...
Supervisor: Professor Tony Tiganis
Natural killer (NK) cell activity is essential for initiating antitumor responses and may be linked to immunotherapy success. NK cells and other...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
The PI3K-Akt-mTOR signalling network plays a pivotal role in the regulation of cell growth and proliferation, and is highly complex with multiple...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) allows for the highest resolution cellular imaging possible at the moment. To get access to all areas of the cell we...
Supervisor: Dr Georg Ramm
Gastric cancer kills ~1 million people worldwide each year and has an average 5-year survival rate of 19%. It is, therefore, a cancer of unmet need....
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Brain tumours are highly immunosuppressed, which has meant that they are uniquely resistant to immunotherapies. Importantly, T cell infiltration into...
Supervisor: Leon Smyth
The mRNA therapeutics have emerged as a high potent new class of drug, revolutionizing disease treatments, such as therapeutic vaccines, monoclonal...
Supervisor: Nanoantibiotics - SHEN LAB
Antibiotic-resistance is a major problem in hospitals and different community settings. Dendritic cells are sentinel cells of the innate immune...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Meredith O'Keeffe
Join the Monash Proteomics and Metabolomics Platform (MPMP) metabolomics team for an exciting summer project to improve retention time (RT)...
Supervisor: Dr. Katy Jeppe
Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis is a complex biosynthetic process that produces many medically important peptide natural products, including several...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Max Cryle
We have recently discovered a very potent antibody targeting the chemokine receptor CXCR3, a promising target for the treatment of inflammatory and...
Supervisor: Dr Remy Robert
The project aims to develop and deploy to the scientific community a robust method to target and isolate discrete regions within a frozen biological...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex De Marco
Adaptive optics (AO) are used to improve the performance of optical systems. Through the use of AO, it is possible to compensate for any distortion...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex De Marco
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Namely,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad
The identification of classical brown and beige adipocytes in white fat depots in adults humans has heralded a new era in adipose tissue biology with...
Supervisor: Dr Garron Dodd
The most aggressive forms of prostate cancer demonstrate resistance to multiple types of cancer drugs. We have performed RNA-sequencing on a large...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
Chronic infectious diseases have a devastating effect on global health. HIV and Plasmodium falciparum both cause chronic disease and have evaded...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
RESEARCH PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The endocrine system controls cell-cell communication and coordinates almost all our daily activities. Abnormalities in...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Timothy Cole
Vaccines exploit the ability of the immune system to provide heightened, tailored responses to pathogens if the host has been infected prior – this...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson