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Identifying downstream effectors of a venous specific adhesion pathway
Apply high-end live imaging of zebrafish and 3D human micro-vessels to functionally analyse new players in vessel-specific adhesion control.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Anne Lagendijk
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Profiling Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Immunity
Develop immunity-guided strategies to evaluate/develop AML mRNA vaccine discovery pipelines.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kelvin Tuong
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Targeting the gastrointestinal mucosa associated microbiome to improve clinical outcomes
Develop & validate a novel diagnostic test for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), develop targeted treatments, and identify clinical biomarkers for predicting therapy responses.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ayesha Shah
- Location
- Woolloongabba
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Universal Learnt Representations in Artificial Intelligence
We attempt to unravel universal ideas in artificial intelligence (AI), such as why human vision use the same functions that neural networks learn independently despite not knowing them beforehand.
- Supervisor
- Dr Shekhar Chandra
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Advancing Reasoning Ability in Diffusion Large Language Models
Investigate the development of enabling diffusion large language models to achieve advanced reasoning ability.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ruihong Qiu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Advancing Recommender Systems with Language Analytics
Investigate the usage of language models for modern recommendations in various online platforms.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ruihong Qiu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
A universal aphasia battery for assessing language disorders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who speak traditional languages and creoles
Develop aphasia assessments for several Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional languages and creoles, by working in collaboration with Indigenous Australians.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Stephen Wilson and Professor David Copland
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences, Indigenous studies, Language, communication and culture, Psychology
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
Developing Efficient Hydrogen Storage Based on Hydrogen Gas Hydrate
Leverage the nature-informed gas encapsulation in molecular cavities of solid water to develop a compact hydrogen-carrying water-based material for safe and efficient hydrogen storage.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ngoc N. Nguyen, Professor Thomas Rufford, Dr Muxina Konarova and Professor Anh V. Nguyen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering