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Investigation of electrokinetic nanoparticle separation in elasto-inertial flows
ARC-funded PhD project developing microfluidic technologies for gentle and versatile processing of nanoparticles from body fluids and environmental extracts.
- Supervisor
- Dr Dan Yuan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Bipolar genetics: Population-scale brain organoids for bipolar disorder and drug response
Although 70-90% of the chance of developing bipolar disorder is inherited, characterising the molecular mechanisms driving disease and therapy response has been challenging. Leverage induced pluripotent stem cell-derived mini brains exposed to bipolar therapies to identify genetic variations that alter therapeutic response.
- Supervisor
- Professor Nathan Palpant and Dr Drew Neavin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Mechanistic analysis of retinoid signalling disruption during gonadal development
A jointly supervised UQ–DTU PhD using transgenic mouse reporter models and ex vivo gonad culture to reveal how chemical disruption of retinoid signalling derails gonadal development. Includes 6 months at DTU.
- Supervisor
- Dr Cassy Spiller, Professor Josephine Bowles and Professor Terje Svingen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
AI-integrated predictive control for flexible green power system
Develop novel coordinated predictive frameworks by artificial intelligence algorithms to estimate the system total disturbance or unknown uncertainty, to compensate parameters mismatching, to achieve adaptive weighting factor tuning for power systems with high penetration of renewable energy.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Ruifeng Yan and Dr Tingting He
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Improving plant phenotyping accuracy via spatio-temporal 3D data analysis
Explore the development and implementation of vision foundational models specifically designed for analyzing 3D temporal data in agricultural research trials. This project will be part of the Data Science Research Group and agriculture science group at the University of Queensland located in Brisbane.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh and Professor Scott Chapman
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Harnessing structural insights into bacterial zinc efflux for new human therapeutics
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the world’s foremost bacterial pathogen. Determine the structural and mechanistic basis of CzcD-mediated zinc efflux and apply this knowledge to block the efflux pathway. You will undertake experimental and/or theoretical studies based on their interests.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Jeffrey Harmer and Associate Professor Evelyne Deplazes
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Physical sciences
Simon Anders Axelsen PhD Scholarship at IMB: unlocking genetic insights into Alzheimer’s disease through AI-predicted hippocampal volume
Using AI, genomics and neuroscience to uncover the genetic basis of hippocampal degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, revealing novel biological pathways and opportunities for therapeutic discovery.
- Supervisor
- Professor Allan McRae
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences, Information and computing sciences
Simon Anders Axelsen PhD scholarship at IMB: Amyloid Precursor Protein in the age of AlphaFold: the interactions of APP with Alzheimer’s risk factors SorLA and TREM2
AlphaFold3 predicts that SorLA and TREM2 bind APP directly, linking three early-onset Alzheimer's genes. We will validate these complexes by crystallography, cryoEM and mutagenesis at atomic resolution.
- Supervisor
- Dr Michael Healy
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences, Information and computing sciences
Simon Anders Axelsen PhD scholarship at IMB: decoding pain: linking neural circuits to behaviour to transform treatment
Map how sensory nerves, the spinal cord, and brain respond to stimuli. AI-assisted analysis will link neural activity to pain behaviour and identify new targets for chemotherapy-induced neuropathy.
- Supervisor
- Dr Hana Starobova and Professor Paul Hodges
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences, Information and computing sciences
Simon Anders Axelsen PhD scholarship at IMB: lipase–host lipid interactions in chronic Salmonella infection and gallbladder carcinogenesis
Explore how chronic Salmonella infections drive gallbladder carcinoma by disrupting host lipid biology. This project combines microbiology, infection biology and cancer research to uncover novel disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets.
- Supervisor
- Professor Ian Henderson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences, Information and computing sciences