Research Projects
The mammalian oocyte is the largest cell in the body and undergoes two highly specialised asymmetric meiotic cell divisions. Coordination of...
Supervisor: Professor John Carroll
This project investigates the neurological effects of natural bushfire exposure on brain cells, with a particular focus on inhibitory neurons. We...
Supervisor: Dr Nafiseh Atapour
A major neglected environmental issue is contamination from synthetic chemicals. These chemicals encompass a vast and rapidly growing number of...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Stringer
Cancer develops through a complex evolutionary process where cells acquire mutations that accelerate their growth, compete and co-operate with each...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
The food intake of the mother during gestation and the breastfeeding period has far-reaching consequences for the development of the child and their...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is one of the most important hormonal systems regulating both acute and chronic blood pressure. The main effector...
Supervisor: Professor Robert Widdop
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
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
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
The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...
Supervisor: Professor Jamie Rossjohn
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
To survive in an environment regularly exposed to fungal, bacterial, parasitic, and viral pathogens, the adaptive arm of the immune system of jawed...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jerome Le Nours
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a prominent opportunistic pathogen that can cause chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients, as well as serious...
Supervisor: Dr Meiling Han
The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...
Supervisor: Professor Jamie Rossjohn
Stroke is Australia’s second greatest cause of death after coronary heart disease and is aleading cause of disability. We have four independent...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Siew Yeen Chai
A number of universities run units or majors in the field of developmental biology, embryology or stem cells. Developmental biology encompasses and/...
Supervisor: Dr Sonja McKeown