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Engineering non-viral gene delivery methods for iPSC-derived Alzheimer’s models
Advance non-viral gene delivery for the development of improved iPSC-derived Alzheimer’s models—enabling better disease insights, drug discovery, and regenerative therapies.
- Supervisor
- Professor Jurgen Götz
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Engineering robust microbial hosts for precision fermentation
Deliver a plug-and-play microbial engineering platform, transforming the speed and flexibility at which precision fermentation hosts can be optimised for industrial use.
- Supervisor
- Dr Yosephine Gumulya and Professor Esteban Marcellin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
Kinetic Metabolic Modelling of Methanotrophs for Methane Bioconversion
Employ experimental and modelling datasets to accelerate scale-up of methanotrophic fermentation by developing a kinetic metabolic model that captures their metabolic response to industrially relevant concentration fluctuations.
- Supervisor
- Professor Esteban Marcellin, Dr Lars Puiman and Dr Isabella Casini
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering
The opportunities and challenges of AI for improving environmental performance
Examine the water use/impacts of AI data-centres, and apply natural language processing (NLP) tools to analyse the sustainability performance of major industrial sectors.
- Supervisor
- Dr Nadja Kunz
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Environmental sciences
The role of dysfunctional mitochondria in cholinergic neuronal degeneration during aging
Test whether mitochondrial damage causes degeneration of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and if repairing this damage can slow or prevent cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer’s-like conditions.
- Supervisor
- Professor Elizabeth Coulson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Bias in Data Pipelines and Artificial Intelligence Systems
Build and evaluate novel methods to track, quantify, and deal with bias rather than to mitigate or remove it.
- Supervisor
- Professor Gianluca Demartini
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Information and computing sciences
Development of a cooling and antimicrobial coating for common crops
Develop natural crop coatings with antimicrobial, cooling, and moisture control properties to reduce pesticide use and improve crop health in wheat, corn, and soybeans.
- Supervisor
- Dr Alberto Baldelli and Professor Mark Turner
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
SAAFE CRC Digital Twins for Risk Assessment Modelling
Enable the parameterisation of robust and enhanced risk assessment models and allow them to be tested and validated on a wider range of use cases, scenarios, and sectors.
- Supervisor
- Dr Noorul Amin and Professor Ricardo Soares Magalhaes
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Environmental sciences, Information and computing sciences
Parametrising of AI architecture for enhanced canopy trait prediction for wheat utilising high temporal, spatial and spectral hypercubes.
This research optimizes AI models to enhance the accuracy and robustness of wheat canopy trait prediction from hyperspectral data.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xin Guo and Associate Professor Andries Potgieter
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Mathematical sciences
Incorporating product scale testing into fire safety science
Explore how product scale testing of materials can be combined with the knowledge of the interaction of different materials in different systems to assess the performance of assemblies in fire.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Lange, Dr David Morrisset and Dr Anwar Orabi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Engineering