Research Projects
Although modern humans are now a global species, our ancestral lineage evolved for much of the past 7 million years in Africa. Understanding how and...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Justin Adams
This project will collaborate with Australian synthetic biology start-ups focused on replacing climate-destructive food industries (e.g., palm oil,...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
How does the brain represent information about the external world?
Why do we have so many distinct brain areas?
How is the representation of...
Supervisor: Dr Nicholas Price
We wish to revolutionise the treatment of autoimmune diseases. We are hoping to devise strategies to eliminate harmful auto reactive cells using...
Supervisor: Professor Charles Mackay
The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...
Supervisor: Professor Jamie Rossjohn
A major challenge in cancer therapeutics is to kill tumour cells without harming normal cells in the body. Traditional chemotherapy tries to do this...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
The overconsumption of highly palatable food is the primary determining factor in today’s global obesity crisis. An important role for the brain...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
A major hurdle in the battle against obesity is not only the ability to promote weight loss but the inability to maintain a lower body weight...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Amyloid precursor protein (APP) plays key roles in apoptosis, synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis, learning, and memory, but its exact physiological...
Supervisor: Professor Zhi-Cheng Xiao
Helicobacter pylori persistently colonize the epithelium of the stomach in roughly half of the world’s population. It is a causative agent of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Cancer therapy and oncology has entered a new exciting era of targeted therapy and personalised patient treatment, but resistance and tumour...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Uncertainty tolerance is a psychological construct describing how individuals manage and respond to uncertainty. Given the pervasiveness of...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
In recent years, the landscape of cancer therapy has shifted dramatically. Novel approaches based on harnessing the patient’s own immune system have...
Supervisor: MICHAEL CHOPIN, PHD
The LCT-producing clostridia are an important group of pathogens that cause severe disease in both humans and animals. In most cases the diseases...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
The incredible diversity of Australian mammals, including the remarkable radiation of marsupials, have been researched for over a century. Yet much...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Justin Adams
Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from the existing vasculature, is essential for tumor growth and metastasis. In the last decade,...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Colafella
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
Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic bacterium that infects the stomachs of half the world's population, causing chronic gastritis, ulcers, and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
The project: Antigen presenting cells (APCs) play a crucial role in establishing and maintaining an immune response towards cancer cells. In recent...
Supervisor: Professor Anthony Purcell
Background: Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are fibroblastic precursor cells that have the stem cell-like ability to differentiate into...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng