Research Projects
The novel coronavirus first identified in December 2019, and has since been identified as SARS-CoV-2, has spread rapidly around the globe. The World...
Supervisor: Professor Caroline Homer
COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented crisis to public health globally and is still impacting millions of people from over 200 countries. Despite its...
Supervisor: Dr Quan Huynh
Improving public cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) rates is vital to improving outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. CPR education is often...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
Neuroscience is becoming an exciting and multidisciplinary field, with a combination of biology, psychology, engineering, and large-data processing....
Supervisor: Dr Tatsuo Sato
Work towards a PhD degree, that will develop a mathematical-computational model of the brain network dynamics consisting of the local and global...
Supervisor: Dr Steve Mehrkanoon
Cranial and spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae- retrospective and prospective audit.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Our laboratory has recently discovered that select Toll like receptor agonists could be modified to present novel adjuvant properties - with broad...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Gantier
Trauma confers risk for virtually all forms of psychopathology. The relationship between trauma, stress, resilience and psychopathology remains...
Supervisor: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
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
Kidney stones are a common urinary tract problem. They can cause obstructions in the urinary system and are a significant risk factor for the...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
The Australian health system faces a significant challenge in catering to its highly diverse population. Cultural and language differences greatly...
Supervisor: Dr Zahra Aziz
Variant curation is the process of collecting, combining and weighting evidence to determine if a genetic variant is pathogenic, benign or a variant...
Supervisor: Dr Philip Harraka
Hepatitis B infection affects over 257 million people worldwide and is a major public health issue. Without timely treatment, chronic hepatitis B...
Supervisor: Dr Jess Howell
The Y-chromosome gene, SRY, is widely expressed in the male brain, such as the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area (VTA), pre-frontal cortex (...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
Pelvic organ Prolapse (POP) is a debilitating urogynecological disorder arising from vaginal birth trauma that goes unrecognised, and culminates as a...
Supervisor: Dr Shayanti Mukherjee
This ARC funded project will decipher the mechanism(s) underpinning the rapid and extensive membrane remodelling in the Gram-negative bacteria...
Supervisor: Dr Meiling Han
Plasma cells produce antibodies so are important for protection from infections. We are interested in understanding the programming of their...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
In 1 out of 2000 people, an infection with the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) can lead to acute rheumatic fever (ARF), an autoimmune...
Supervisor: Dr Danika Hill
Transcription factors (TFs) are key proteins that regulate gene expression by binding to specific regions of the genome known as regulatory elements...
Supervisor: Dr Anja Knaupp
Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many cancers, but this potentially effective treatment can also cause significant side-...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews