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Enhancer discovery in crossbred cattle using CAGE-seq
This is a computational/data-analysis project (no wet-lab work). You will work with large scale functional-genomics datasets to identify and interpret active regulatory elements, connect enhancer activity to gene regulation, and compare regulatory signals across crossbred populations.
- Supervisor
- Dr Loan Nguyen and Associate Professor Associate Professor Elizabeth Ross
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Enhancer discovery in crossbred cattle using CAGE-seq
This is a computational/ data-analysis project (no wet-lab work). You will work with large scale functional-genomics datasets to identify and interpret active regulatory elements, connect enhancer activity to gene regulation, and compare regulatory signals across crossbred populations.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Elizabeth Ross and Dr Loan Nguyen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
Enhancing Efficiency of Foundational Models
Explore techniques such as model sparsity, knowledge distillation, and task-specific adaptation to reduce computational overhead without sacrificing performance.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
First Nations perspectives: Curse and cure of deadly venoms
Engage with First Nations communities to discover and exchange Traditional Knowledge and management of envenomation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jared Miles
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Indigenous studies, Language, communication and culture
Nanotechnologies for Tuberculosis detection and diagnostics
This project will develop nanotechnologies to capture and sequester Tuberculosis (TB) from clinical samples to identify and characterise TB, making it quicker to diagnose drug-resistant TB.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mark Blaskovich and Dr Sanjaya KC
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences
Optimal design and allocation of micromobility infrastructure in urban networks
This PhD project will develop optimisation and simulation tools to determine how urban road space should be allocated for micromobility, balancing safety, efficiency and policy goals in multimodal transport networks.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Mehmet Yildirimoglu and Professor Zuduo Zheng
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Building responsible AI: Co-designing knowledge transfer solutions using generative AI
Bridge the gap between the principles of responsible AI and their measurable practice, by developing AI knowledge tools to empower end-user community groups. The potential benefit is to produce responsible AI solutions to help disability groups connect, communicate, share and learn.
- Supervisor
- Dr Peter Worthy, Dr Sarah Bentley and Dr Cara Stitzlein
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences