Research Projects
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
Surface polysaccharides are common antigens in priority bacterial pathogens and therefore attractive targets for novel control strategies such as...
Supervisor: Dr Tom Stanton
During embryonic development patterns of gene expression are established that determine each cell type in the body. It is critically important that...
Supervisor: Dr Evan Healy
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
Protein folding stability is a fundamental property that determines whether a protein adopts its functional three-dimensional structure or remains...
Supervisor: Dr Ram Bhusal
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
Standard cytotoxic cancer therapy often causes the death of the oocytes in primordial follicles, predisposing women to infertility and premature...
Supervisor: Dr Karla Hutt
Future healthcare providers treat a wide variety of patients who vary in gender, skin tone, body habitus, socio-economic status etc. Despite this,...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
Polysaccharide capsule is a critical virulence factor in many bacteria, including the priority drug-resistant pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. The...
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Short
The gastric carcinogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori has a unique ability to withstand high acidity of the stomach by buffering its periplasm at pH...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Female fertility and offspring health are critically dependent on the maintenance of an adequate supply of high quality oocytes. Little is known...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Stringer
Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) are two closely related chronic diseases with a high prevalence worldwide. Both diseases share...
Supervisor: Yung-Chih Chen VMD, PhD
In several cancer types, a higher tumour mutational burden (TMB) has been associated with increased immune cell infiltration into tumours and better...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
The discovery of giant viruses, comparable in size and complexity to simple cellular organisms has pushed back the frontier of the virus world....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Fasseli Coulibaly