Choosing the right research project that interests you is a critical element of success. Below you can find a diverse range of cutting-edge research projects available at the Doherty Institute, including the levels they’re available at, information on supervisors and their areas of interest.
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How do influenza virus infectious dose and replication kinetics impact on the titre and breadth of influenza-reactive antibodies?
Honours
WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza -
Immunosurveillance pathways in brain cancer
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Barrow group -
Mining The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) to identify novel tumour surveillance pathways and targets for immune checkpoint blockade.
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Barrow group -
Molecular basis for growth factor regulation of natural killer cell function in cancer
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Barrow group -
The role of growth factor immunosurveillance in human cancers
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Barrow group -
Development of cell-based potency assays using Ready-To-Use cells approach
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Bioassay group -
Identification of blood transcriptomic biomarkers which characterize dysregulated immune response to bacterial and viral infection in children
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Coin Group -
Detecting natural selection in bacterial genomic data
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Davies Group -
Evolution of streptococcal pathovars
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Davies Group -
Real-time phylogenetics and epidemiology in SARS-CoV-2 genome data
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Davies Group -
Integrative infectious disease phylodynamics
PhD/MPhil
Davies Group -
Population genomics of endemic Streptococcus pyogenes
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Davies Group -
Unravelling the drivers of group A streptococcal pandemics
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Davies 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 -
Clinical metagenomics for rapid diagnosis of drug resistant tuberculosis
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Dunstan group -
Identifying human genes influencing tuberculosis susceptibility and disease outcome
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Dunstan group -
Age-dependent susceptibility of neurons to RNA virus infection
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Fazakerley Group -
Role of suppressor of cytokine signalling proteins in viral encephalitis
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Fazakerley Group -
Vertical transmission of Ross River virus in mosquito vectors
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Fazakerley Group -
Development and function of unconventional T cells
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Godfrey Group -
Recognition of phosphoantigens by gamma-delta (γδ) T cells
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Godfrey Group -
Small-drug-alteration of lipid recognition by CD1-restricted unconventional T cells
Honours
Godfrey Group -
Studying immune cell responses during infection and cancer using single-cell genomics
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Haque Group -
Applications of phylodynamics to multidrug resistant enteric pathogens
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group -
Development of new antibiotics to treat multidrug resistant superbugs
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group -
Precision genomics for antimicrobial-resistant bacterial pathogens
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Howden Group -
Targeting regulatory T cells to treat cancer
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Kallies Group -
Understanding CD8 T cell responses during chronic infection and cancer
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Kallies Group -
Can resident memory B cells in the lung protect against COVID19 and other respiratory viruses?
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Kent group -
Helping make the best antibodies to combat COVID-19 and Influenza
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Kent group -
Interrogating B cell immunity to COVID19 and influenza vaccines
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Kent group -
A cell-based model of sporadic prion disease
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Lawson group -
Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of medically-relevant prion diseases
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Lawson group -
Neurodegeneration in the enteric nervous system
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Lawson group -
The role of co-pathologies in the clinical presentation of prion disease
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Lawson group -
The role of the prion protein in brain cancer
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Lawson group -
Beyond integration: defining factors that control HIV latency reversal in both clonal and non-clonal populations
PhD/MPhil
Lewin group -
Investigating the role of soluble immune checkpoints in HIV persistence
PhD/MPhil
Lewin group -
Identifying immunosuppressive mechanisms in brain cancer
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mantamadiotis group -
A novel link between metabolism and host defence: O-GlcNAc glycosylation
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group -
Immuno-paralysis following severe infections or trauma
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group -
Improving the formation of protective immunity against human viruses
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group -
Regulation of immune receptor expression and turn-over by ubiquitin ligases
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group -
The amyloidogenic protease inhibitor Cystatin C in health and disease
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group -
The immune signature of COVID-19 patients
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group -
Trogocytosis: a novel communication system between cells of the immune system
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group -
Understanding the mechanisms that impair anti-tumour Adoptive Cell Therapy
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Villadangos Group -
Are there additional MAIT cell antigens?
PhD/MPhil
McCluskey group -
Dissecting antigen presenting cell subsets and cytokines responding to TLR agonists for MAIT cell activation
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
McCluskey group -
Manipulating MAIT cells for increased protection by vaccination and therapy
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
McCluskey group -
Role of MAIT cells in viral/bacterial co-infection
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
McCluskey group -
Understanding the role of MAIT cells in immune-mediated pathology
PhD/MPhil
McCluskey group -
Understanding the role of MAIT cells in protection from microbial infections
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
McCluskey group -
How is selective metal ion transport achieved at the host-pathogen interface?
PhD/MPhil, Honours
McDevitt group -
Mapping elemental fluxes during host-pathogen interaction
PhD/MPhil, Honours
McDevitt group -
Metal ion homeostasis in Klebsiella pneumoniae
PhD/MPhil, Honours
McDevitt group -
Understanding the biological chemistry of pneumococcal disease
PhD/MPhil, Honours
McDevitt group -
Preventing infections of the highly puke-ogenic virus - norovirus
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mackenzie Group -
Stopping protein translation the norovirus way
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mackenzie Group -
Bias in vaccine effectiveness studies
McVernon Group -
Buruli ulcers’ Most Wanted – Understanding the mosquito associated with the flesh-eating bacteria, Mycobacterium ulcerans.
Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Epidemiology of Scarlet Fever in Victoria
Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Exploring the association between hepatitis C and invasive group A streptococcus infections (iGAS)
Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Invasive Streptococcus A – piecing together clinical, genomic and public health aspects of the puzzle
PhD/MPhil
McVernon Group -
Understanding the impact of new testing for infectious diseases
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Investigating the household risk of group A Streptococcus infection
Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Measuring the association between influenza presentations and invasive group A Streptococcus infections (iGAS)
Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Acute respiratory infection presentations and prescribing in primary care
Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Optimal design of competitive mixture experiments
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Modelling spatial and demographic heterogeneity of malaria transmission risk
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Optimising use of existing and emerging SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics to support the public health response to COVID-19
PhD/MPhil
McVernon Group -
Sample size determination for within-host animal studies of infection
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
McVernon Group -
Signals controlling T cell responses during chronic infections and cancer
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mueller Group -
How do tumours impact normal tissue functions?
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mueller Group -
Neural regulation of anti-cancer immunity
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mueller Group -
Regeneration of lymphoid tissues
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Mueller Group -
An overview of key antimicrobial stewardship indicators within Australian hospitals
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship -
Deciphering the role of important Coxiella effector proteins
PhD/MPhil, Honours
Newton Group -
Mitochondria and intracellular bacterial pathogens
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Newton Group -
Using genomics to track transmission of Chlamydia trachomatis
Honours
Newton Group -
Illuminating microbial “dark matter” for antibiotic discovery
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Pidot group -
New antibiotics from old bacteria
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Pidot group -
Antibodies preventing HTLV-1c infection
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Purcell Group -
New drugs to reactivate latent HIV
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Purcell Group -
Pathogenesis of HTLV-1 subtype-C infecting remote indigenous Australians
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Purcell Group -
RNA control of HIV latency
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Purcell Group -
SARS-CoV-2 escape from neutralising antibody control
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Purcell Group -
Investigating host factors that control the replication of respiratory viruses
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Reading Group -
Understanding the entry pathways and viral life cycle of influenza A virus (IAV) in host epithelial cells and immune cells
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Reading Group -
Determining the importance of conserved residues identified throughout the HBV genome on viral replication
Honours
Revill Group -
Identification and characterisation of novel malarial transmission-blocking antigens
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Rogerson Group -
Immunoglobulin allotypes in functional immunity to malaria
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
Rogerson Group -
Understanding the development of protective immunity to malaria in pregnancy
Honours
Rogerson Group -
Pathogenesis of bacterial pneumonia
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Satzke Group -
Streptococcal transmission and disease
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Satzke Group -
Synergistic and antagonistic interplay between Streptococcus pneumoniae and respiratory viruses
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Satzke Group -
Understanding the importance of variation in the capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Satzke Group -
Application of proteomics to explore Burkholderia pathogenesis
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Scott group -
Understanding the role of O-linked glycosylation within Burkholderia species
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Scott group -
Finding new antibiotics against Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Stinear Group