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Projects	Groups	Status
Platelet-based autoimmune diseases	The Gardiner Group - Mechanisms of Thrombosis and Cancer	Current
Platelet-erythrocyte interactions in the bloodstream	The McMorran Group - Genetics and Infectious Diseases	Potential
Platelet-tumour cell interactions and cancer-related thrombosis	The Gardiner Group - Mechanisms of Thrombosis and Cancer	Current
Platelets as an intravascular link in neurological diseases (eg Alzheimer’s Disease)	The Gardiner Group - Mechanisms of Thrombosis and Cancer	Current
Potential role of phase separation in transposon defence	The Hayashi Group - Transposon defence and animal development	Potential
Predicting cell-type specific combinatorial binding of neuronal transcription factor network by deep learning	The Wen Group - Computational Biology of RNAs and Functional Genomics	Current
Predictive models of RNA biochemical modifications and their role in RNA processing	The Eyras Group - Computational RNA Biology	Current
Presymptomatic Signatures of Interneuron Dysfunction in Mice Models of Striatum-Related Pathologies	The Dehorter Group - Neuronal Development	Potential
Projection of three-dimensional light fields for neurophotonics		Current
Quantitative studies of the presentation of viral antigens to the immune system (especially CD8+ T cells) during infection	The Tscharke Group - Viruses and Immunity	Potential
Rapid translation-based stress responses to environmental changes.	The Shirokikh Group - Protein Biosynthesis and Homeostatic Control	Current
Regulation of amino acids in the brain	The Billups Group - Synaptic Mechanisms	Potential
Regulation of chromatin remodeling of the rRNA genes in mouse embryonic stem cells	The Hannan Group - Cancer Therapeutics	Current
RNA polymerase I inhibitors as therapeutics for cancer: analysis of p53 -dependent and – independent cell cycle checkpoints	The Hannan Group - Cancer Therapeutics	Current
RNA polymerase I inhibitors as therapeutics for cancer: Testing combination therapies for haematologic malignancies	The Hannan Group - Cancer Therapeutics	Current
RNA-binding proteins rewire transcriptomes during immune cell differentiation	The Wen Group - Computational Biology of RNAs and Functional Genomics	Current
Role of deeply conserved RNA structures as novel regulators of pathogenesis-associated pathways	The Wen Group - Computational Biology of RNAs and Functional Genomics	Current
Role of miRNA in retinal degeneration	The Valter Group - Retinal Cell Damage and Repair	Current
Sensory coding mechanisms in rat somatosensory system	The Arabzadeh Group - Neural Coding	Current
Sensory integration in the whisker pathway	The Arabzadeh Group - Neural Coding	Current
Studying histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG)	The Parish Group - Cancer & Vascular Biology	Current
Studying the interaction between genes and environment in Indigenous Kidney Disease	The McMorran Group - Genetics and Infectious Diseases	Potential
Synthetic platelet microbicidal peptides as novel anti-malarial drugs	The McMorran Group - Genetics and Infectious Diseases	Potential
T cell responses to malaria	The Cockburn Group - Malaria Immunology	Potential
Test novel mucosal vaccine adjuvants to enhance mucosal B and T cell immunity against mucosal pathogens	The Ranasinghe Group - Molecular Mucosal Vaccine Immunology	Current