Research Projects
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
The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...
Supervisor: Professor Jamie Rossjohn
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
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
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
Machine-learning design of new cytokine receptor modulators
Cytokines are small immune signalling proteins that control inflammation, but many are...
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Ellisdon
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
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
Psoriasis is a skin autoimmune disease that affects 2-3% of the global population. Around half of the patients carry the major risk gene for...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
This project investigates the novel architecture of the power system found in a bacterial flagellar motor specialised for locomotion in viscous...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Therapeutic proteins such as insulin (a hormone for diabetes), erythropoietin (a growth factor for anemia), interferons (cytokines for immune...
Supervisor: Dr Ram Bhusal
A cardinal feature of adaptive CD8+ T cell (also known as killer T cells) responses to infection is the rapid initiation of a proliferative response...
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Turner
This project aims to determine the molecular structure of the interface between novel peptide self-assemblies and
cell membranes through x-ray...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar