Research Projects
Hunger can tune our sense of smell to help find food, identify foods high in calories and affect memories associated with food. Currently, we do not...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Our ability to recover from injury is crucial for survival. The mechanism by which plasminogen promotes wound healing is poorly understood. It is...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Group A Streptococcus hijacks host plasminogen to facilitate colonization and dissemination. This infection can lead to life-threatening infections...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Despite current diabetes management, patients with glucose-lowering therapies often deal with hypoglycemia, a condition with abnormally low blood...
Supervisor: Dr Romana Stark
To be able to stave off infections and cancers throughout life, our immune systems first need to recognise and tolerate the ~200 different cell types...
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Daley
Cancer cells can acquire stromal or developmental-like phenotypes allowing them to masquerade as other cell types, making the challenge of...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a maternally-inherited mitochondrial disorder that...
Supervisor: Mary Herbert
Everyday we're faced with a multitude of choices - some big, some small. We look at the information available to us, and make a decision. How is...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Hagan
Lower jaw (mandible) fractures are the most common fractures of the head in civilians and military
personnel, disproportionately affecting minority...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
Recent technological advances in micro and nano-fabrication technology and high-yield electrophysiology techniques allowed us to record the activity...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
The adaptive arm of immune system uses lymphocytes to generate antibody and memory responses to challenges throughout life. Three lineages of...
Supervisor: Dr Martin Davey
The adaptive arm of immune system uses lymphocytes to generate antibody and memory responses to challenges throughout life. Three lineages of...
Supervisor: Dr Martin Davey
Animal and human behaviour frequently involves a choice between actions or goals with conflicting positive and negative outcomes (e.g. rewards and...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Typical symptoms of dengue include sudden onset of fever accompanied by headache, muscle pains, rash, cough, vomiting and haemorrhagic manifestations...
Supervisor: Prof Diana Hansen
Brain cancers are notoriously aggressive, and current treatments are often ineffective at preventing disease progression. This research project...
Supervisor: Dr Iman Azimi
Shortly following invasion, Babesia bovis induces the formation of unique structures on the RBC surface, which we have termed ‘ridges’. Importantly,...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Tumour formation and progression are driven by widespread changes in gene regulation. We have combined machine learning with gene co-expression...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
Infection triggers large-scale changes in the phenotype and function of killer T cells that are critical for immune function, yet the gene regulatory...
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Turner
Stroke is a debilitating disease that can cause permanent neurological damage, complications, and death. At present, there are very few treatment...
Supervisor: Dr Bradley Broughton
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic poses a continued threat to public health and well-being, especially in people who have a compromised immune system....
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury