Research Projects
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Age-related olfactory sensory decay, including smell loss and defective odor-discrimination, during normal and pathological aging is a prominent...
Supervisor: Dr Jie Liu
Unlike other infections in which one single encounter with the pathogen is enough to induce long-lasting protection, immunity to malaria might take...
Supervisor: Prof Diana Hansen
Viruses pose one of the grand challenges to human and animal health globally and within Australia. Viral disease progression is critically dependent...
Supervisor: Dr Gregory Moseley
Currently the only available effective and durable treatment for morbid obesity is bariatric surgery. Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG) is the most...
Supervisor: Dr Aneta Stefanidis
Currently the only available effective and durable treatment for morbid obesity is bariatric surgery. Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG) is the most...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
During aging in human, joints, tendons and skin deteriorate both morphologically and functionally, resulting in a progressive physiological...
Supervisor: Dr Jie Liu
Neuroanatomy is a cornerstone of medical education, providing the foundational knowledge required to diagnose and treat neurological disorders. A...
Supervisor: Yasith Mathangasinghe
Stroke and trauma are the leading causes of brain damage in Australia. Although many people survive the initial event, they are left with devastating...
Supervisor: Leon Smyth
Advances in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics are transforming the study of gene regulation and cellular function. Single-cell RNA sequencing...
Supervisor: Professor Wei Shi
Studies from lower order organisms such as flies and worms have shown that mild mitochondrial dysfunction invokes a stress response that promotes...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Rose
RESEARCH BACKGROUND
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common of the neurodegenerative disorders, affecting 1-2% of the population...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Lazarou
Eating disorders and drug addiction share many common traits, including biological and environmental factors that predispose individuals to...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
The epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal failure represents a crisis for health world-wide. Recent work indicates that CKD...
Supervisor: Professor Sharon Ricardo
The human brain is wrinkled: a design thought to maximize the number of neurons packed into the limited space of the skull. But recent AI-driven...
Supervisor: Daisuke Shimaoka, Group Leader
Metallo‐peptidases cleave amino acids from either the N‐ and C‐termini of peptide hormones to either generate or degrade biologically active peptides...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Siew Yeen Chai
Fibroblasts in the lymph nodes are able to regulate differentiation and localization of innate and adaptive immune cells. They are also a primary...
Supervisor: Dr Kostas Knoblich
TCR recognition of peptide + MHC class I complexes (pMHCI) is central to CD8+ T cell function. It is clear that the nature of the TCR-pMHCI...
Supervisor: Professor Nicole La Gruta
DC take up, process and present antigen (Ag) to T cells to initiate immune responses. There are multiple DC subsets that are tailored for different...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Mireille Lahoud
Anorexia nervosa (AN) has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder - 12 times higher than the death rate from all other causes in...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi