Research Projects
The underlying cause of coronary artery disease (CAD) is atherosclerosis – a maladaptive inflammatory condition driven primarily by macrophages,...
Supervisor: Dr Denuja Karunakaran
How does the heart form in the embryo?
The heart starts as a simple tube. Even then, it pumps blood around the body. Over time, heart cells sense...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
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
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
Pancreatic cancer remains highly resistant to current immunotherapies, highlighting the need to identify new targets that allow the immune system to...
Supervisor: Dr Farnaz Fahimi
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
The World Mosquito Program (WMP; based at Monash University) has pioneered a novel biocontrol tool, Wolbachia, that controls the transmission of...
Supervisor: Dr. Johanna Fraser
Antigen presentation is the fundamental and complex process in which a cell breaks down proteins into small fragments (peptides) and presents these...
Supervisor: Chen Li
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
Pasteurella multocida is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes a number of different diseases in cattle,
pigs and poultry, resulting in...
Supervisor: Professor John Boyce
Brain tumours are highly immunosuppressed, which has meant that they are uniquely resistant to immunotherapies. Importantly, T cell infiltration into...
Supervisor: Leon Smyth
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
Anorexia nervosa (AN) has clear biological underpinnings, however, the molecular mechanisms that lead to the development of this debilitating...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
Join the Monash Proteomics and Metabolomics Platform (MPMP) metabolomics team for an exciting summer project to improve retention time (RT)...
Supervisor: Dr. Katy Jeppe
This project develops a visual stimulation system for mice for neuroscience experiments. The project develops a custom experimental system composed...
Supervisor: Daisuke Shimaoka, Group Leader
This project aims to design, synthesize and evaluate a novel class of oligonucleotides. Oligonucleotides have emerged as a revolutionary tool in...
Supervisor: Dr Nitin Patil
Fibrosis is defined as the hardening and/or scarring of various organs including the heart and kidney, which usually results from abnormal wound...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Chrishan Samuel
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 Monash Vision Group is developing a cortical vision prosthesis to restore vision to the blind. We currently have various projects focussed around...
Supervisor: Dr Yan Wong
The antigen-presenting molecule MR1 has been shown to mediate anti-tumour immunity, with specific MR1-restricted T cells exhibiting pan-cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad