| Discipline of Anatomy & Histology |
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| - Reproductive biology and medicine
- Metabolomics of mental disease: effects of neuroleptics on brain metabolome.
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| Vladimir Balcar | Metabolomics of mental disease: effects of clozapine on brain metabolome |
| Maria Byrne | Biology of fertilisation and early development of embryos |
| Tailoi Chan-Ling | The retina in developmental neurobiology and neuropathology |
| Nicholas Cole | - Embryonic origins of vertebrate muscle
- Embryonic origins of vertebrate muscle
- Determining the position and timing of limb initiation
- Determining the position and timing of limb initiation
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| Karen Cullen | - Inflammation and Microvasculature
- Immunohistochemical study of the microvasculature and inflammation in Alzheimer's Disease brain tissue
- Pathogenesis of motor neuron disease
- Pathogenesis of motor neuron disease
- Chronological development of cytoskeletal abnormalities in the Alzheimer's Disease brain
- Chronological development of cytoskeletal abnormalities in the Alzheimer's Disease brain
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| Denise Donlon | Discriminating between human and non-human bones as well as finding methods to identify ways of determining ancestry, sex, age and stature. |
| Bogdan Dreher | Functional organisation of the visual system |
| Michelle Gerke | ‘peripheral’ nociceptors and ‘central’ glial cells to the development of chronic neuropathic pain states |
| Claire Goldsbury | Oxidative-stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in the initiation of Alzheimer-like cytoskeletal abnormalities |
| Luke Henderson | - Brain changes associated with chronic pain in humans
- Brain changes associated with chronic pain in humans
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| Kevin Keay | Injury, disability and chronic pain research |
| Frank Lovicu | - Normal lens biology
- Lens pathology (cataract)
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| Chris Murphy | Female reproduction and structural cell biology |
| Juergen Reichardt | Human molecular genetics of cancer and atherosclerosis |
| Discipline of Pathology |
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| Bob Bao | - Sudden Death in Young Australian CSI (Sydney)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
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| Stuart Cordwell | - Peptide biomarkers of myocardial ischemia
- The role of calcium overload in myocardial I/R injury
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| Qihan Dong | Arachidonic acid pathway in prostate cancer |
| Georges Emile Raymond Grau | - Assessing microparticles as effectors in the microvascular lesion of cerebral malaria
- Investigating mechanisms of microparticle production by microvascular endothelial cells and defining clinically useful inhibitors.
- Defining the implication of hypoxia in the pathology of cerebral malaria
- Determining the interactions of MP with their target cells in the host
- Defining intracellular signalling pathways of microvascular endothelium stimulation by parasite and host cells
- Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of platelet-endothelial interactions
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| Brett Hambly | Protein defects causing familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy |
| Nicholas Hunt | - Understanding a key new enzyme in the kynurenine pathway
- What causes death and disability in bacterial meningitis?
- How does an anti-inflammatory steroid reduce the lung oedema caused by malaria?
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| Nicholas King | - Changes in gene expression in neurons and microglia in WNV encephalitis
- Infiltrating leukocytes in WNV encephalitis - their role in mortality
- The role of mucosal dendritic cells in controlling virus infection in epithelium
- Why isn't the foreign embryo rejected by the mother's role of adhesion molecules.
- The role of monocyte/dendritic cells in initiating WNV immune responses.
- The role of microparticles in the immune response to WNV
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| Jillian Kril | The substrate of memory impairment in Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) |
| Roger Pamphlett | Brain mutations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| Des Richardson | - Development of new iron chelators as novel drugs against cancer
- Transport of nitric oxide in cells and its interaction with iron containing proteins in tumour cells
- The function of the malignant melanoma tumour antigen, melanotransferrin (p97), in tumourigenesis
- The role of iron in the pathogenesis of the crippling neurodegenerative disease, Friedreich's ataxia
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| Roland Stocker | - Unravelling the function of heme oxygenase-1 using a genetic approach and Biochemistry
- Role of cytochrome b5 in the reductive activation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase
- Regulating vascular cells: Induction of Apoptosis by Heme oxygenase-1
- Contribution of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase to the regulation of vascular tone
- Antioxidant drugs as novel treatments for diabetes and atherosclerosis associated with diabetes
- Unravelling the molecular mechanism behind heme oxygenase 1 induced adaptive response.
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| Paul Witting | Post translational changes to key cardiac proteins in the hearts of diabetic rats after experimental heart attack |
| Bing Yu | Gene copy number in sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| Discipline of Pharmacology |
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| Jonathon Arnold | Why cannabis use promotes psychotic relapse |
| Kellie Charles | Targeting tumour-macrophage interactions |
| Rachel Codd | - Novel histone deacetylase inhibitors
- Capture of bacterial secondary metabolites
- Mechanisms of iron uptake in antarctic bacteria
- Selective capture of bleomycis streptomyces verticillus
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| Lyn Moir | Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) |
| Brian Oliver | - How different are fibroblasts from various lung diseases?
- Can the common cold virus kill you?
- Can viruses stop b2-agonists from working?
- Does Tumstain regulate inflammation asthma?
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| Robert Vandenberg | - Molecular Basis for K+ coupling of Glutamate Transporters
- Characterization of Drug Binding sites on Glycine Transporters
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| Discipline of Physiology |
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| Haydn Allbutt | The cause of all "neurodegenerative" diseases |
| David G Allen | - Muscle fatigue
- Pacemaker function in the heart
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| Stephen Assinder | Prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia |
| Max Bennett | - The cellular origins of neuropathic pain: glial cells, macrophages and cytokines
- The cellular origins of migraine pain: astrocyte spreading depression
- The cellular origins of central pain sensitisation I: the astrocyte - microglia network
- The cellular origins of central pain sensitisation II: astrocytes, microglia and cytokines
- Pain representation in the brain: the astrocytic model for fMRI and the interpretation of images
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| Simon Carlile | - Perception of stationary and moving sound sources
- Neural and bioacoustical studies of the mammalian auditory system (guinea pig and ferret)
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| David I Cook | - Use of replication-deficient adenoviruses and retroviruses to investigate control of epithelial sodium channels in epithelia
- Identification of novel regulators of sodium channels
- Use of replication-deficient adenoviruses to investigate regulation of cytosolic calcium
- Characterisation of ClC family chloride channels in salivary and other epithelia
- Investigation of the role of sodium-bicarbonate cotransport in early embryonic development
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| Roger Dampney | Hypothalamic control of cardiovascular function |
| Margot Day | Impact of growth factors on early embryo development in vitro |
| Christine Koeppl | - Evolution of the cochlear efferent system
- The basis of fast temporal processing in the cochlea of the barn owl
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| Catherine Leamey | Development and plasticity of the nervous system |
| Rebecca S Mason | - Role of vitamin D and other compounds in the protection of skin cells from UV
- Muscle as a storage site for vitamin D
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| Bronwyn McAllan | - The regulation of reproductive physiology by environmental photoperiod
- The regulation of reproduction and metabolism by photoperiod and temperature
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| Brian Morris | - Mechanisms of longevity
- Embryonic stem cell
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| Brian Morris | Pre-mRNA splicing |
| Chris O'Neill | - Reproduction
- Development
- Stem cells
- Cancer
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| William Phillips | - Protein kinase signaling at the neuromuscular junction
- Agrin, exercise and the aging neuromuscular junction
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| Dario Protti | - Contrast adaptation
- Plasticity phenomena in the nervous system
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| Atomu Sawatari | - The role of enrichment on the development of the hippocampus
- The importance of Ten_m3 in the wiring of cortico-striatal circuits
- The role of enrichment on the development of the retina
- Reversing the maturation of the hippocampus
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| Samuel Solomon | - Processing of motion by visual cortex
- Large scale activity of neurons in visual cortex
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| Jonathan Stone | Stability of the central nervous system and degenerative diseases of the retina (retinitis pigmentosa) and brain (dementia) |
| The supervisor can advise which Discipline will administer these Honours projects |
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| Alex Bishop | - Role of antibodies in liver transplant rejection
- Role of IL-4 in liver transplant tolerance
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