Research Projects
Overview of activities
These studies examine the safety and efficacy of interventions (nutraceutical and pharmaceutical) for the prevention and...
Supervisor: Dr Aya Mousa
Many bacterial pathogens have acquired the capacity to replicate inside human cells by avoiding cell intrinsic innate immune pathways.Pathogens such...
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland
Time to evacuation in spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage
Machine learning vs traditional prognostic models in intracerebral haemorrhage...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Neurodevelopmental disorders exhibit significant sex differences, with males being more susceptible to autism spectrum disorder and ADHD, while...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
Children learn the foundation skills of life by engaging in play activities. Children presenting with suspected developmental, physical, or...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ted Brown
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 project is part of the RNA Systems Biology Lab's ambition to de-risk discovery and translational research using a novel RNA-seq based...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
This is a unique opportunity to work on one of the largest longitudinal data sets in Huntington’s Disease (HD) in an interdisciplinary research...
Supervisor: Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis
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
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
A diet rich in ultra-processed foods and refined carbohydrates, yet low in nutrients and fibre, is associated with an increased risk of chronic...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Houghton
The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...
Supervisor: Professor Jamie Rossjohn
Recent advancements in the field of nuclear medicine have introduced promising theranostic agents for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer....
Supervisor: Dr Laura Porter
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
This project will structurally and functionally characterise the S-Pumps found in Clostridioides difficile, Bacillus solimangrovi, and Paenibacillus...
Supervisor: Dr Christopher Stubenrauch