Research Projects
Decades of evidence support that dietary fibre lowers blood pressure and reduces the prevalence of cardiovascular disease. Our team has defined that...
Supervisor: Prof Francine Marques
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease resulting in the destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. T1D...
Supervisor: Dr Eliana Marino Moreno
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is an important last-line treatment for advanced prostate cancer. ADT initially works well but eventually fails in...
Supervisor: Dr Renea Taylor
The functions of at least half of the proteins encoded in the genome of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites remain unknown. Understanding protein...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Namely,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad
A high body mass index (a clinical measure of adiposity) at mid‐life is an acknowledged risk factor for Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). Potential...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Siew Yeen Chai
Insulin‐regulated aminopeptidase, IRAP, is highly expressed in fat and skeletal muscle where is it found to accompany the insulin‐responsive glucose...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Siew Yeen Chai
The identification of classical brown and beige adipocytes in white fat depots in adults humans has heralded a new era in adipose tissue biology with...
Supervisor: Dr Garron Dodd
The most aggressive forms of prostate cancer demonstrate resistance to multiple types of cancer drugs. We have performed RNA-sequencing on a large...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
Chronic infectious diseases have a devastating effect on global health. HIV and Plasmodium falciparum both cause chronic disease and have evaded...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
The Bachelor of Biomedical science and Bachelor Science degree programs are considered non-vocational with a diverse range of graduate or employment...
Supervisor: Professor Julia Choate
RESEARCH PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The endocrine system controls cell-cell communication and coordinates almost all our daily activities. Abnormalities in...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Timothy Cole
A central focus of this project is the study of evasins, a family of proteins found in tick saliva that bind to and inhibit multiple chemokines,...
Supervisor: Dr Ram Bhusal
Enhancing biochemical approaches to enable novel membrane protein structure determination by cryo-EM
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4-year Doctoral Program; Stipends: $33,413/year; Conference support: $5,000; Industry placement; Advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Sexton
Surface polysaccharides are common antigens in priority bacterial pathogens and therefore attractive targets for novel control strategies such as...
Supervisor: Dr Tom Stanton
Vaccines exploit the ability of the immune system to provide heightened, tailored responses to pathogens if the host has been infected prior – this...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
We wish to understand the detailed molecular events that underlie the recruitment and regulation of chromatin-modifying complexes by their co‐factor...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Chen Davidovich
Uncertainty tolerance is a psychological construct describing how individuals manage and respond to uncertainty. Given the pervasiveness of...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
Preliminary data from the Nguyen-Daly lab has identified Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) as promising therapeutic targets for triple-...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Namely,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad