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The Healthy Brain Project is an ongoing study of middle-aged Australian adults (40-70 years) at risk of future dementia. This project will analyse...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara R Cardoso

This is a unique opportunity to work on one of the largest longitudinal data sets in Huntington’s Disease (HD) in an interdisciplinary research...

Brain energetics during gestation is a fundamental mechanism of neurodevelopment. Compared to the adult brain, brain energy metabolism in the fetus (...
Supervisor: Dr Stacey Ellery

Studies in T cell mediated immunity have focused on understanding the presentation of peptides by the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), and...
Supervisor: Dr Jerome Le Nours

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a physical disability that affects movement and posture. CP is the most common physical disability in childhood, but the...
Supervisor: Dr Jan Kaslin

Project title: Investigating how nuclei communicate to coordinate gene expression With technical advances in tissue engineering, genomics, and...
Supervisor: Dr. William Roman

Mitochondria are key players in health and disease. They are the main source of energy in eukaryotic cells, oxidizing sugars and fats to generate ATP...
Supervisor: Professor Mike Ryan

The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...

Background: The innate immune system senses and responds to endogenous and exogenous danger signals in order to protect the host. cGAMP synthase (...
Supervisor: Dr Dominic De Nardo

Stillbirth and small for gestational age (SGA) remain major adverse, unresolved, and untreated outcomes of pregnancy. Global estimates indicate 1.9...
Supervisor: Dr Stacey Ellery

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder, chronic inflammation leads to chronic pain. People with endometriosis experience pain during and...
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Cousins

The development of diabetic complications including vascular and renal disease is enhanced in diabetic patients. However, the underlying mechanism as...
Supervisor: Dr Jay C. Jha

Gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia are relatively common pregnancy complications that increase the risk of adverse outcomes for the mother...
Supervisor: Dr Kristen Bubb

Our recent study of silica-exposed workers found that 51% of stone benchtop industry (SBI) workers screened were born overseas, and 33% were born in...
Supervisor: Dr StellaMay Gwini

This project will structurally and functionally characterise the S-Pumps found in Clostridioides difficile, Bacillus solimangrovi, and Paenibacillus...

The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...

This project will explore the human T cell receptor molecular recognition of mycobacterial lipid antigens presented by CD1b. These lipids are unique...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Shahine

Wombats and koalas are the only survivors of an extensive radiation of mostly terrestrial vombatiforms dating back to the late Oligocene. Wombats and...

Occupational therapists, other health care professionals and education staff often assess the skills and abilities of children presenting with...

The interplay between genotype and phenotype is governed by a multitude of genetic interactions (GIs), and the mapping of GI networks holds...
Supervisor: Dr Sathish Periyasamy

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