Student research projects

Showing all student projects.

Research projects
The biological basis of gender identity
Research area: gender identity
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
SRY: A risk factor for Parkinson’s disease in males?
Research area: Parkinson's disease
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Sex differences in common diseases and drug responses
Research area: sexual dimorphism
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Role of estrogen receptor beta in gonadal development and Parkinson’s disease
Research area: sex determination
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Molecular characterisation of regulation and mechanism of action of the anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin 37
Research area: newborn health
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Development of face perception in preterm infants (The BabyFace Study)
Research area: newborn health
Supervisor: Associate Professor Flora Wong
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Identifying the genes responsible for Intersex
Research area: sex determination
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Developing new preclinical models to study how inflammation alters perinatal brain development
Research area: newborn health
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Baby microbiome: Investigating the human neonatal lung and gut microbiome and its impact on health and disease
Research area: Preterm birth
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Advancing fetal surveillance for early detection of fetal distress: using AI and novel physiological sensing
Research area: newborn health
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Transition to life after birth
Research area: newborn health
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Revisiting origin of endometriosis
Research area: Endometriosis
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Identifying the genes causing Turner syndrome (45,XO) and Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY)
Research area: human genetics
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Reducing the risk of pulmonary hypertension in infants with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Research area: Newborn health
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Pulmonary hypertension in our smallest babies – determining the optimal treatment.
Research area: Pulmonary hypertension
Supervisor: Dr Beth Allison
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Is creatine the nutritional key to boosting uterine receptivity and successful pregnancy?
Research area: pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr Stacey Ellery
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Investigating new therapeutic targets for endometriosis associated pain.
Research area: endometriosis
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Cousins
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Investigating neurosteroids in pregnancy and their effect on perinatal outcomes: a study in spiny mice
Research area: Pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr Stacey Ellery
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
How are male and female brains different?
Research area: sexual dimorphism
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Investigating cerebral creatine metabolism during neurodevelopment and its capacity to prevent neuropathology
Research area: pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr Stacey Ellery
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Improving functional deficits associated with fetal growth restriction
Research area: Fetal Growth Restriction
Supervisor: Professor Suzanne Miller
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Developing new preclinical models to study how inflammation alters perinatal brain development
Research area: newborn health
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Characterisation of novel gonadal targets of Sox9
Research area: sex determination
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Developing new anti-cytokine therapies for preventing perinatal brain injury
Research area: preterm birth
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Advancing fetal surveillance for early detection of fetal distress: using AI and novel physiological sensing
Research area: newborn health
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Understanding cancer resistance to chemotherapy
Research area: chemotherapy, drug targets
Supervisor: Professor Ron Firestein
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Transcriptional regulators as cancer targets: new models and therapeutic approaches
Research area: cancer, transcription
Supervisor: Professor Ron Firestein
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Precision Medicine for Childhood Brain Cancer
Research area: precision therapy, cancer
Supervisor: Professor Ron Firestein
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Allele-specific transcription of tumorigenic mutations in paediatric cancers
Research area: transcriptomics, paediatric
Supervisor: Dr Claire Xin Sun
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Development of anti-inflammatory RNA therapeutics
Research area: neuroinflammation
Supervisor: Dr Sophia Davidson
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters
Development of new 3-dimensional models of cancer to model drug resistance and develop new cancer treatment
Research area: colon cancer, organoids
Supervisor: Professor Ron Firestein
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Combinatorial functional genomic screens to identify new therapeutic targets for cancers
Research area: genomics, cancer
Supervisor: Professor Ron Firestein
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Functional Annotation of the tumour variants of unknown significance
Research area: cancer, bioinformatics
Supervisor: Dr Claire Xin Sun
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
The role of transcriptional regulators in maintaining lung function by controlling epithelial cell differentiation
Research area: epigenetics, transcription
Supervisor: Dr Marius Dannappel
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Targeting Mediator kinases to improve the efficacy of immunotherapies in colorectal cancer
Research area: colorectal cancer, epigenetics
Supervisor: Dr Marius Dannappel
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Novel functions of Mediator kinases in immune cells to prevent auto-immune disease
Research area: transcription, epigenetics
Supervisor: Dr Marius Dannappel
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Identification of novel cancer targets for immunotherapies via integrated phosphoproteomics and immunopeptidomics approaches
Research area: cancer, immunotherapy
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Mitochondrial protein interactions that cause dysregulation and disease
Research area: mitochondria, proteomics
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Is interferon β a friend or foe?
Research area: interferon, immunity
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
How do proteins enter the mitochondria and cause dysregulation?
Research area: mitochondria, proteomics
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Developing Next Generation Photodynamic Therapy Drugs as a Cancer Treatment
Research area: PDT, cancer
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Immunotherapy: Unveiling Novel Vaccine Targets
Research area: immunotherapy, immunopeptidomics
Supervisor: Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Illuminating Disease Frontiers – Advancing Biomarker Discovery with Soluble HLA Immunopeptidomics and Olink Proteomics
Research area: biomarker, immunopeptidomics
Supervisor: Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Development of combination therapies for childhood cancers
Research area: childhood cancer, HLA
Supervisor: Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Immune Enigma Unveiled – Pioneering Bioinformatic Pipelines for Non-Canonical HLA-Bound Peptide Exploration
Research area: bioinformatics, immunology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Preventing disease recurrence and increasing disease free survival rates for ovarian cancer patients
Research area: ovarian cancer
Supervisor: Dr Maree Bilandzic
Suitability: Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Mechanisms of ovarian cancer metastasis- characterizing molecules expressed during early cancer invasion
Research area: ovarian, metastasis
Supervisor: Dr Maree Bilandzic
Suitability: Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Impact of impaired immune function in haemoglobin disorders
Research area: thalassaemia, immune
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Harnessing RNA interference in gene therapy vectors for β-thalassaemia
Research area: RNA interference
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Exploring the Potential of Targeting Iron Overload and Inflammation in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Research area: iron overload
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Epigenetic modifications of the human β-globin locus: new therapeutic targets for haemoglobin disorders
Research area: epigenetics, RNA interference
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Modelling childhood leukemia for the development of new and improved therapeutic approaches
Research area: leukaemia, haematology
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Identification of molecular prognostic and therapy resistance signatures in paediatric sarcomas
Research area: sarcomas, bioinformatics
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jason Cain
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Exploiting Epigenetic Dysregulation in SWI/SNF-Deficient Lung Adenocarcinoma
Research area: epigenetics, lung
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jason Cain
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Defining the mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance in childhood and adolescent osteosarcoma
Research area: osteosarcoma, resistance
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jason Cain
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Defining drivers of metastatic osteosarcoma
Research area: sarcoma, metastasis
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jason Cain
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Targeting purine and pyrimidine synthesis to treat Small Cell Lung Cancer
Research area: lung cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Gough
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Spatial transcriptomic analysis of the lung cancer microenvironment
Research area: lung cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Gough
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Leveraging the innate immune system to improve lung cancer treatments
Research area: lung cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Gough
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Leveraging lung organoid models to improve lung cancer treatments
Research area: lung cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Gough
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Defining drivers of metastatic lung cancer
Research area: lung cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Gough
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Genetic modelling of Acute Erythroleukaemia
Research area: erythroleukaemia, genetics
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Elucidating the role of EMT modulators in Acute Leukaemia
Research area: Leukaemia, genomics
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Structure of interferon signaling complexes by cryo-electron microscopy
Research area: innate immunity
Supervisor: Dr Nicole de Weerd
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Structure and function relationship of type I interferons and receptors
Research area: innate immunity
Supervisor: Dr Nicole de Weerd
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Investigating the role of interferon epsilon in cancer
Research area: cancer
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Campbell
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Modelling Type I Interferon-driven neuroinflammation in brain cells using patient-derived iPSCs
Research area: inflammation
Supervisor: Dr Natália Sampaio
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Essential virus sensors: investigating RNA receptors in infection
Research area: virus
Supervisor: Dr Natália Sampaio
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
What is an immunogenic RNA
Research area: RNA
Supervisor: Professor Carl Walkley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Understanding how ADAR1 expression is regulated
Research area: RNA
Supervisor: Professor Carl Walkley
Suitability: Honours, Masters
Understanding how ADAR1 mutations cause Aicardi-Goutières’s Syndrome
Research area: RNA
Supervisor: Professor Carl Walkley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Blocking harmful lung damage during acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused by infections
Research area: infection
Supervisor: Professor Philip Bardin
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Modulating gastrointestinal microbiota stimulation of the innate immune system
Research area: gastrointestinal microbiota
Supervisor: Associate Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
High Resolution Computational Analysis of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota
Research area: computational biology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Discovery of antibiotic resistance gene dispersal networks in the human gastrointestinal microbiota
Research area: Antibiotic Resistance
Supervisor: Associate Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Characterization of microbiota composition in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease
Research area: microbiota
Supervisor: Associate Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Characterization of human microbiota diversity across the Australian community
Research area: microbiota
Supervisor: Associate Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Role of membrane damaging effector proteins in innate immune cell-mediated tissue injury
Research area: Cell death
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Mitochondrial apoptosis and infectious disease responses
Research area: Cell death
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Defining regulators of cell death and inflammasome activation
Research area: Cell death
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Mechanisms of mucosal damage and repair during bacterial gut infection
Research area: microbiology
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland AM
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Intracellular bacterial pathogens and cell intrinsic immunity
Research area: microbiology
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland AM
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Structural Biology of Inflammation
Research area: Inflammation
Supervisor: Dr Wilson Wong
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
The role of the innate immune system in preventing stomach cancer during chronic Helicobacter pylori infection
Research area: innate immunity
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Suitability: Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Development of a vaccine to prevent stomach cancer using genetically modified bacterial membrane vesicles
Research area: cancer
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Defining the role of a novel NLR protein in stomach B cell lymphoma associated with chronic Helicobacter infection
Research area: Innate immunity
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Characterisation of the immunomodulatory and oncogenic properties of bacterial extracellular vesicles
Research area: Innate immunity
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Impacts of epigenomic drugs on female reproductive health
Research area: ovary, female health
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Western
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Defining how high fat diet and epigenetic factors interact to modulate metabolic disease inheritance
Research area: epigenetics, inheritance
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Western
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Discovering therapies to prevent inflammatory diseases of the male reproductive tract and infertility
Research area: Inflammation-induced infertility
Supervisor: Dr Rukmali Wijayarathna
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Exploring endocrine hypertension in Indigenous populations
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters
Primary aldosteronism in pregnancy and beyond
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Impact of ethnicity on the prevalence and aetiology of hypertension
Research area: hypertension
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Identification of novel transcriptomic markers of primary aldosteronism
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of different strategies for the diagnosis and management of primary aldosteronism
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters
Establishing a national primary aldosteronism registry to enable comprehensive data collection
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters
Understanding the role of cell death during severe influenza virus infections
Research area: influenza
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Novel host-directed therapies for severe influenza virus infections
Research area: innate immunity
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Role of XIAP in endocrine cancer (ovarian and thyroid)
Research area: cancer therapeutics
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Molecular pathogenesis of granulosa cell tumours of the ovary
Research area: ovarian cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Structure-function relationships of the mineralocorticoid receptor
Research area: molecular endocrinology
Supervisor: Professor Peter Fuller AM
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Making better mRNA therapeutics
Research area: mRNA vaccines
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michael Gantier
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Creating a new generation of adjuvants for vaccine and cancer immunotherapy
Research area: Innate immunity
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michael Gantier
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Novel innate immune variants causing autoinflammatory disease
Research area: Inflammation
Supervisor: Professor Seth Masters
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate