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Displaying 76 - 90 of 110 project(s).
Major questions about the molecular mechanisms of rapid stress adaptation remain unanswered.
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Open for Bachelor, Honours, Masters students
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villa Centre
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This project will examine the function of the variety of amino acid transporters found in neuronal tissue.
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Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
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- Associate Professor Brian Billups, Supervisor
This project aims to investigate the role of APA in cell fate by studying CD8+ T cells that respond to virus infections and how RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) regulate APA in T cell differentiation.
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- Cancer
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Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
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- Associate Professor Jean (Jiayu) Wen, Principal investigator
- Professor David Tscharke, Researcher
- Professor Ian Cockburn, Researcher
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Open for Honours, PhD students
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- Associate Professor Riccardo Natoli, Supervisor
This project will focus on the development of microsimulation models and optimisation tools that integrate AI algorithms to evaluate clinical and economic outcomes in population health.
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Open for PhD students
villa Centre
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- Associate Professor Nhung Nghiem, Researcher
- Dr Syed Adnan Ali, Researcher
- Professor Mark Polizzotto, Researcher
A multitude of brain cancer (glioma) mutations, identified by large-scale next generation sequencing (NGS), are predicted to drive disease through computational algorithms in silico.
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Open for Honours, PhD students
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- Professor Leonie Quinn, Supervisor
This study investigates how UBF isoforms remodel ribosomal DNA (rDNA) chromatin, aiming to elucidate their impact on chromatin dynamics and gene regulation.
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- Phenogenomics
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Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
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- Dr Rita Ferreira, Supervisor
- Professor Ross Hannan, Supervisor
This project is based on cellular immunology techniques such as flow cytometry or intravital imaging.
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Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
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- Professor Ian Cockburn, Supervisor
This study assesses the potential of second-generation RNA Polymerase I inhibitors as therapeutic agents for cancer by evaluating their ability to inhibit cancer cell growth and proliferation.
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- Phenogenomics
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Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
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- Dr Nadine Hein, Supervisor
- Dr Rita Ferreira, Supervisor
- Professor Ross Hannan, Supervisor
We investigate the neuro-protective benefits of different forms of exercise to retinal health and aim to understand what molecular processes mediate this.Our ongoing projects aim to determine whether or not these benefits can be translated into therapeutic approaches for retinal diseases such as AMD.
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Open for Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD students
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villa Centre
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- Associate Professor Riccardo Natoli, Principal investigator
We've discovered that platelets help remove aged red blood cells by forming complexes that target them for destruction in the spleen, a process crucial for preventing thrombosis and maintaining red blood cell homeostasis.
Theme
- Infectious diseases
- Inflammation
The role of oxidative stress in the progression of retinal degenerations
Student intake
Open for Honours, PhD students
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- Associate Professor Riccardo Natoli, Supervisor
This project aims to shed light on the role of APA and its regulation by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) in the retina, with a particular focus on responses to oxidative stress as observed in AMD.
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- Cancer
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Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students
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- Associate Professor Jean (Jiayu) Wen, Principal investigator
- Associate Professor Riccardo Natoli, Researcher
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