Research Projects
The global threat from antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was highlighted by the World Health Organization in its first-ever priority pathogen list of...
Supervisor: Dr Meiling Han
This project aims to develop novel antisense oligonucleotides as an efficient and common therapeutic for targeting the polymyxin resistant gram-...
Supervisor: Dr Nitin Patil
The transcript encoding the proto-oncogene MYC is commonly overexpressed in prostate cancer (PC). MYC protein abundance is also increased in the...
Supervisor: Dr Luc Furic
Hypertension is a major cause of heart failure, heart attacks and strokes. Associated with the development of hypertension is the accumulation of...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Kemp-Harper
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an incurable disease and a major cause of death and illness throughout the world. Whilst there has been advancement...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Kemp-Harper
Background:
Strong climatic changes may have been the primary drivers of human evolution. Understanding how early human (hominin) foraging and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Luca Fiorenza
Bariatric surgery has now been accepted as a front-line treatment for type 2 diabetes (T2D) that compares favourably with lifestyle and medicinal...
Supervisor: Dr Aneta Stefanidis
Bariatric surgery has now been accepted as a front-line treatment for type 2 diabetes (T2D) that compares favourably with lifestyle and medicinal...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
Obesity is a major public health burden worldwide, where 2/3 Australians are overweight and/or obese. Obesity greatly increases the risk of diabetes...
Supervisor: Dr Denuja Karunakaran
DC monitor the environment for potential “danger signals” that signify pathogen invasion, including non-homeostatic cell death caused by viruses. We...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Mireille Lahoud
Thin, flat, branched actin cytoskeleton filled membrane protrusions like the lamellipodia and membrane ruffles are utilized by cells for a plethora...
Supervisor: Dr Senthil Arumugam
The shape of the lower jaw (mandible) and dentition in non-human primates varies between species but the reasons behind this morphological variation...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
The presentation of post-translationally modified (PTM) peptides by cell surface MHC molecules increases the diversity of targets for recognition by...
Supervisor: Dr Nathan Croft
Neuroanatomy is a critical, yet notoriously difficult, subject in medical education, essential for linking complex neural pathways to clinical signs...
Supervisor: Yasith Mathangasinghe
Malaria is one of the most devastating infectious diseases worldwide, causing major public health, social and economic problems globally. The lack of...
Supervisor: Professor Christian Doerig
It is well-established that neurons in the whisker area of somatosensory cortex and thalamus exhibit directional selectivity. Direction preference is...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
Our mothers programed the first decisions of our lives by mRNA dumping: the regulated translation of this maternal transcriptome controls the first...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that block checkpoint inhibitory receptors including Programmed Death (PD)-1 act directly on T cells to overcome ‘...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Meredith O'Keeffe
Recently, novel genetic variants of GPR75 were discovered to be associated with leanness in large genome wide associated studies. This is the first...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
This study investigates the role of Smad3 acetylation in the development and progression of organ/tissue fibrosis.
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jinhua Li