Research Projects

The space of evolutionary trees in infectious disease epidemiology

Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Davies Group

Integrative infectious disease phylodynamics

PhD/MPhil
Davies Group

Creating a reporting process for defining an outlier hospital within the National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey

Master of Biomedical Science

Analysis of the impact of electronic approval systems for antimicrobial prescribing in Melbourne hospitals

Master of Biomedical Science

Optimal design of competitive mixture experiments

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science

Sample size determination for within-host animal studies of infection

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group

Understanding the impact of new testing for infectious diseases

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science

Influenza epidemiology in the Northern Territory - analyses of linked datasets

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Tong Group

Buruli ulcers’ Most Wanted – Understanding the mosquito associated with the flesh-eating bacteria, Mycobacterium ulcerans.

Master of Biomedical Science

Analysis of screening and management of viral hepatitis in primary care

Master of Biomedical Science

Establishing the determinants of fluctuating incidence of exotic arboviruses in Victoria

Defining the epidemic threshold for syndromic influenza surveillance in primary care

Master of Biomedical Science

Acute respiratory infection presentations and prescribing in primary care

Master of Biomedical Science

Investigating the determinants of persistent or recurrent infections with group A Streptococcus

Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group

The therapeutic potential of unconventional T cells in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours

Engineering T cells to fight solid tumours

Honours
Mackay, Laura Group

Topical wound healing formulations in the context of diabetic complications

Honours
Karagiannis group

Molecular mechanisms of action of dietary antioxidants and chromatin modifying compounds

Honours
Karagiannis group

Identification of novel dietary chromatin-modifying using molecular dynamic simulations

Honours
Karagiannis group

HIV infection and cholesterol metabolism

Honours
Sviridov group

Signalling-specific mechanisms regulating brain tumour cell invasion

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mantamadiotis group

The role of microbiota and short chain fatty acids in improving anti-cancer potential of killer T cells

PhD/MPhil
Bedoui Group

Understanding and exploiting programmed cell death pathway during intracellular infections

PhD/MPhil
Bedoui Group

Understanding the impact of the gut microbiota on health outcomes in young South East Asian children

PhD/MPhil
Biggs group

Using genomics to investigate the transmission of skin pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in a ‘One Health’ setting

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Davies Group

Unravelling the drivers of scarlet fever pandemics

PhD/MPhil, Honours
Davies Group

Role of suppressor of cytokine signalling proteins in viral encephalitis

Honours
Fazakerley Group

Understanding the role of unconventional T cells in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Honours
Godfrey Group

CD4 T cells for protection against malaria infection in the skin

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Heath Group

The gut microbiota and antimicrobial resistance

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group

Application of microbial genomics in public health

PhD/MPhil
Howden Group

Understanding the evolution of influenza viruses by herd and host immunity

Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Kedzierska group

Defining the reactogenic properties of influenza vaccines

Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Kedzierska group

Understanding immunity towards seasonal influenza vaccines

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Kedzierska group

Generation of protective immunity against severe influenza disease in Indigenous populations

Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Kedzierska group

The importance of IgA in the protection and control of infectious diseases

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Kent group

Investigating the role of functional antibodies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Kent group

Identifying macaque MAIT cells using MR1 tetramers

Honours
Kent group

A cell-based model of sporadic prion disease

Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Lawson group

Neurodegeneration in the enteric nervous system

Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Lawson group

Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of medically-relevant prion diseases

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Lawson group

Dissecting new functions of post-translational modifications in B lymphocytes

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mackay, Fabienne Group

Discovery of novel targets to enhance tissue resident immunity

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mackay, Laura Group

Reno rumble: how flaviviruses remodel the intracellular architecture of infected cells

Honours
Mackenzie Group

Evading the innate immune response; the norovirus way

Honours
Mackenzie Group

The guts of norovirus infection

Honours
Mackenzie Group

Mapping elemental fluxes during host-pathogen interaction

PhD/MPhil, Honours
McDevitt group

How is selective metal ion transport achieved at the host-pathogen interface?

PhD/MPhil, Honours
McDevitt group

Metal ion homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PhD/MPhil, Honours
McDevitt group

Understanding the biological chemistry of pneumococcal disease

PhD/MPhil, Honours
McDevitt group

How do tumours impact normal tissue functions?

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mueller Group

Mitochondria and intracellular bacterial pathogens

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Newton Group

Micro-RNA and severity of clinical malaria

Honours
Rogerson Group

Characterisation of antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes to elucidate mechanisms of transmission blocking immunity

Honours
Rogerson Group

What do antibodies need to do to protect a woman against pregnancy-malaria?

Honours
Rogerson Group

Streptococcal transmission and disease

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Satzke Group

Pathogenesis of pneumococcal pneumonia

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Satzke Group

Transcriptional regulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Satzke Group

Characterisation of a putative phage-inducible chromosomal island in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Satzke Group

Development of novel proteomic tools to explore Burkholderia glycosylation dependent pathogenesis

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Scott group

Role of O-linked glycosylation system across the Burkholderia genus

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Scott group

Applying synthetic biology to unravel the virulence of the hospital-adapted clones of Staphylococcus epidermis

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Stinear Group

New antibiotics from old bacteria

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Stinear Group

SNAP - Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform Trial

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Tong Group

Characterisation of antimicrobial resistance and virulence of novel staphylococcal lineages

PhD/MPhil, Honours
Tong Group

Exosomes – a role in influenza virus defence

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Wakim group

Location, location, location – lodging virus specific T cells in the lung as an approach to protect against influenza virus infection.

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Wakim group

Blocking the development of secondary bacterial pneumonia

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Wakim group

Immuno-paralysis following severe infections or trauma

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group

The role of glucose metabolism in the regulation of immunity

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group

Molecular basis for growth factor surveillance in natural killer and innate lymphoid cells

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Barrow group

Molecular basis for growth factor immune-surveillance in plasmacytoid dendritic cells

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Barrow group

Understanding the mechanisms that impair anti-tumour Adoptive Cell Therapy

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group

Immunoregulatory functions of the MARCH family of ubiquitin ligases

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group

MR1 – a molecular alarm system for intracellular bacterial infection

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group

Finding the factors that make VRE such a successful hospital-adapted pathogen

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Stinear Group

Towards a new vaccine for Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer)

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Stinear Group

Characterising the milieu of hepatitis B spliced variants associated with advanced liver disease and liver cancer

Honours
Revill Group

Cow antibodies that potently neutralize HIV transmission

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Purcell Group

Pathogenesis of HTLV-1 subtype-C infecting remote indigenous Australians

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Purcell Group

New drugs to reactivate latent HIV

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Purcell Group

RNA control of HIV latency

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Purcell Group

CCVs: Coxiella-containing vacuoles and clathrin-coated vesicles

PhD/MPhil, Honours
Newton Group

Regeneration of lymphoid tissues

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mueller Group

Restoring immunocompetency in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mackay, Fabienne Group

Restoring B cell tolerance in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mackay, Fabienne Group

Molecular control of T cell responses to chronic infections and tumors

PhD/MPhil, Honours
Kallies Group

Metagenomics for infectious diseases diagnostics and identifying antimicrobial resistance

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group

Tracking superbugs using genomics

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group

Evolution in Staphylococcus aureus – what makes a successful hospital-adapted clone?

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group

Defining the impact of antibiotic resistance and convergent evolution on staphylococcal pathogenesis and host-pathogen interactions

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group

Stopping the spread of the superbug VRE in Australian hospitals

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group

Vertical transmission of Ross River virus in mosquito vectors

Honours
Fazakerley Group

Evolution of streptococcal pathovars

PhD/MPhil, Honours
Davies Group

Application of systems genomics to analysing the dynamics of Streptococcus pyogenes infection

PhD/MPhil, Honours
Davies Group

Population genomics of endemic Streptococcus pyogenes

PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Davies Group

Understanding the role of B cell activation in curing hepatitis B virus

Honours
Lewin group