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mRNA cancer vaccines
Involve design and testing of personalised mRNA cancer vaccines that can provoke robust and durable immune responses.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Seth Cheetham
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
New scalable organic synthesis methods based on electrolysis
Work on a project dealing with the development of novel synthetic electrochemical methods and their transfer to scalable flow systems.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Cantillo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Plasticity in pre-and post-flowering resource allocation: which breeding strategy for which environment?
Investigation of wheat plasticity for tillering, stem reserves and stay-green across genotypes and environments, with opportunities in crop modelling to assess the breeding value of such traits in production environments.
- Supervisor
- Professor Karine Chenu and Associate Professor Millicent Smith
- Location
- Gatton Campus
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
SAAFE CRC Horizontal gene transfer in waterborne bacteria with their protozoan hosts
Investigate how protozoal predation affects the frequency and reveal why HGT is enhanced in protists.
- Supervisor
- Professor Jianhua Guo and Professor Nicholas Ashbolt
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Development of traits for low methanogenic forage sorghums
Develop genetic solutions in sorghum for low-emission cattle stockfeed and grazing. Through the use of new breeding technologies, we will trait-stack promising gene edits together to produce novel gene edited (non-GMO) sorghum traits for industry.
- Supervisor
- Dr Karen Massel and Dr Albert Wong
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
Renewable energy drived methane conversion
This project designs novel photocatalyst design for efficient solar-driven photothermal catalysis, sustainably converting methane into valuable multi-carbon chemicals.
- Supervisor
- Dr Zhiliang Wang and Dr Ping Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Environmental sciences
Combating pathogens from biofilms in premise plumbing systems
Assess the interactions and dynamics of opportunistic pathogens and their protozoan hosts within drinking water systems and biofilms, and work towards developing control methods for the removal of these pathogens in drinking water environments.
- Supervisor
- Professor Jianhua Guo and Professor Nicholas Ashbolt
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Efficient PFAS removal from contaminated solids
The project aims to achieve efficient PFAS removal using foam fractionation, leveraging PFAS surface activity to concentrate and separate contaminants for scalable, low-energy, and sustainable remediation.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Cheng Zhang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
CSIRO Industry PhD - Adoption and scaling of novel carbon dioxide removal through enhanced rock weathering in regional Australia
Investigate drivers of a novel technology for carbon dioxide removal and soil rejuvenation, enhanced rock weathering. Expected outcomes include policies and market interventions facilitating adoption. Benefits include contributing to Australia reaching net-zero emissions goal by offering responsible pathways for carbon removal.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Heynen and Dr Dr Yuwan Malakar
- Location
- CSIRO Dutton Park, Brisbane
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Built environment and design, Earth sciences, Engineering, Human society
Developing Image Datasets and Recognition Algorithms for Major Weeds in Queensland Cropping Systems
Use precision agriculture technologies to offer promising solutions for effective, site-specific weed control while reducing herbicide use and mitigating the environmental impacts of indiscriminate application.
- Supervisor
- Professor Bhagirath Chauhan and Professor Muthukumar Bagavathiannan
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences