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Expression of therapeutic peptides in plants
Make peptide-based drugs in plants. Plants offer the possibility of producing drugs in a sustainable, eco-friendly way, avoiding harsh chemicals used in traditional drug manufacture.
- Supervisor
- Professor David Craik
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
How blood factors regulate adult neurogenesis and memory in mice
Understand the underlying mechanisms of exercise-induced adult neurogenesis to counteract age-related cognitive decline, and to understand how blood-borne factors are involved in this process.
- Supervisor
- Dr Odette Leiter
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Investigating the molecular regulation of canopy vigour in mango to inform orchard management
Improve understanding of the role of rootstocks and plant growth regulators in the molecular regulation of scion vigour to inform and reduce management costs for the Australian mango industry.
- Supervisor
- Dr Lindsay Shaw
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
Mechanisms of neuroprotection after stroke
Understand mechanisms of the brain to restore itself and harness them for therapeutic purposes by combining imaging techniques, brain stimulation and individually tailored recovery paradigms in mice.
- Supervisor
- Dr Matilde Balbi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Molecular design of drugs to fight chronic human diseases and environmental pests
Investigate cutting-edge, platform technologies for engineering novel bioactive proteins to help fight chronic human diseases or environmental pests.
- Supervisor
- Dr Conan Wang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Multi-Frequency Complex-Valued Domain Adaptation Methods for Reliable Electromagnetic Solvers
This project aims to develop deep neural networks for solving complex electromagnetic problems efficiently. You will develop domain adaptation methods that enable reliable electromagnetic solvers.
- Supervisor
- Dr Alina Bialkowski
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Nanoarchitectonics of Magneto-plasmonic Mesoporous Materials for Sensing Applications
This project aims to develop mesoporous magneto-plasmonic nanostructures and films and their integration into nano-electromechanical systems to achieve portable and sensitive sensors
- Supervisor
- Professor Yusuke Yamauchi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering
Needs-based workforce planning in primacy care
To explore the needs base workforce planning in primary care, we will use the participatory systems thinking approach and group model building to better design models of care.
- Supervisor
- Professor Lisa Nissen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences
New genetic tools to understand multiple-disease resistance in barley
Look to continue and build on activities, knowledge, and resources, with a goal of delivering a novel breeding toolkit for rapid and effective adoption of genetic-resistant sources.
- Supervisor
- Dr Eric Dinglasan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Rheumatoid arthritis synovial tissue and remission
Analyse existing biopsies and blood from patients with rheumatoid arthritis in remission and non-responsive to conventional treatment using spatial imaging, molecular and proteomic techniques.
- Supervisor
- Professor Ranjeny Thomas
- Location
- UQ Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Health sciences