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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
Engineering of mesenchymal stromal cell metabolism for reliable cell therapies
Mesenchymal stromal cell therapies work in some patients and not others. Use CRISPR to rewire the cells' metabolism and make their anti-inflammatory effect reliable.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mauro Torres and Professor Justin Cooper-White
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering
Synthetic gene circuits for controllable production of antibody and gene therapy medicines
Biologic medicines are made inside living cells. Design genetic switches to control those cells on demand and train across synthetic biology, cell engineering and bioprocessing.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mauro Torres and Professor Lars Nielsen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering
Engineering scalable microbial protein production from sustainable feedstocks
Develop next-generation microbial protein production processes by integrating microbial physiology and bioprocess engineering to enable efficient, scalable conversion of renewable feedstocks into sustainable protein.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ramon Ganigue and Associate Professor Ilje Pikaar
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Engineering scalable single cell oil production for sustainable manufacturing of oleochemicals
Develop advanced microbial processes for sustainable lipid production by optimising carbon conversion, microbial performance, and scalable bioprocess design using renewable feedstocks.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ramon Ganigue and Associate Professor Adrian Oehmen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Swift transitions - Decoding the chromatin dynamics that redirect cell behaviour during vessel growth
Uncover how chromatin dynamics control cell decisions during vessel growth, using live imaging and genomics in zebrafish to reveal how cells switch states.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kaska Koltowska
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Bias in data pipelines and AI systems
This scholarship is in the context of an Australian Research Council fellowship titled "A principled approach to data bias management in data pipelines".
- Supervisor
- Professor Gianluca Demartini
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Development of next-generation stem-cell models for immune differentiation and function
What if we could grow human immune cells from stem cells? This PhD develops new methods to turn iPSCs into working T cells, opening up fresh possibilities for immunotherapy, vaccines and infection research.
- Supervisor
- Professor Gabrielle Belz and Associate Professor Fernando Guimaraes
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences