Research Projects
Pleurotolysin: a pore forming toxin from the carnivorous oyster mushroom
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Dunstone
Putting the brakes on inflammation: Using the structure of important immune protein receptors to develop therapeutics
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Dunstone
The sheer mechanical power of shark jaws, combined with an increase in shark bites in Australia since the 2000s, have accelerated the need for the...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
Over the past years, our scientific and clinical research team has pursued basic discovery and preclinical research into the skin autoimmune disease...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) produced by Glutamic Acid Descarboxylase (GAD) is the most abundant neurotransmitter inhibitor in the CNS and is...
Supervisor: Professor James Whisstock
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Here we will combine omics technologies with novel muscle-specific gene manipulation technologies to discover novel signalling pathways controlling...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Rose
Plasmin (Plm) plays a crucial role in blood clot dissolution (fibrinolysis), inflammation, cellular migration and wound healing. Alpha2-antiplasmin (...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Natural killer (NK) cells are the founding members of the innate lymphoid cell family and contribute to the rapid production of inflammatory...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
The mammalian oocyte is the largest cell in the body and undergoes two highly specialised asymmetric meiotic cell divisions. Coordination of...
Supervisor: Professor John Carroll
The Bcl-2 family of proteins is crucial for apoptosis (a form of programmed cell death) regulation. The Bcl-2 proteins are synthesized in cytosolic...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
Hypertension and its associated complications affect men and women during different stages of their lives. Our research is focusing on what controls...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Colafella
Inflammation is the body’s response to injury or infection. A key feature of inflamed tissues is the accumulation of leukocytes (white blood cells),...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Martin Stone
Obesity and overweight are major health concerns and a burden to public health in Australia, affecting 2 in 3 adults (12.5 million), and 1 in 4...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
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
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
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