Research Projects

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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Themes

• Host Pathogens Interactions
• Viral Infectious Diseases
• Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections
• Immunology

Disciplines

• Clinical Research
• Discovery Research
• Epidemiology
• Genomics
• Global Health
• Indigenous Health
• Public Health

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• How infection and trauma cause dendritic cell paralysis and lethal immunosuppression

  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

• 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, Honours
  Villadangos Group

• Genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Group A Streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus in remote Indigenous communities

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

• Antimicrobial resistance in Indigenous communities

  PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
  Tong Group

• Novel adaptive platform trials for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

  PhD/MPhil
  Tong Group

• The immune response to infection in early cystic fibrosis

  Honours
  Sutton Group

• Diagnosing Salmonella infections

  Master of Biomedical Science
  Strugnell Group

• What makes a new bacterial pathogen tick?

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

• New drugs from old bugs

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

• Understanding essential gene regulation in Staphylococcus aureus

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

• Bacterial gene expression in pneumococcal pneumonia

  Honours
  Satzke Group

• Synergistic interactions between Streptococcus pneumoniae and respiratory viruses on bacterial pathogenesis

  Honours
  Satzke Group

• Bacterial factors for pneumococcal transmission

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Satzke Group

• Mechanisms of transmission-blocking immunity against malaria

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

• Redefining enteropathogenic E. coli

  Honours
  Robins-Browne Group

• Virulence gene activation in E. coli that causes oedema disease in pigs

  Honours
  Robins-Browne Group

• Determining the role of secreted hepatitis B virus (HBV) RNA in the HBV life cycle and pathogenesis

  Honours
  Revill 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

• Interplay amongst the Coxiella burnetii effector repertoire

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

• CCVs: Coxiella-containing vacuoles and clathrin-coated vesicles

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

• Regeneration of lymphoid tissues

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Mueller Group

• Revealing the induction of T cell responses during chronic infection

  Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
  Mueller Group

• Is dengue pathology due to a stressed cell?

  Honours
  Mackenzie Group

• Can enteric bacteria aid infection by Norovirus?

  Honours
  Mackenzie Group

• Subset determination of Tissue-Resident Memory

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

• The role of tissue-resident memory T cells in immune-mediated pathology

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

• A new function of the cytokine BAFF in dendritic cell maturation: Implications for immunity and cancers

  Honours
  Mackay, Fabienne Group

• Elucidating the beneficial and harmful elements of the BAFF/APRIL system in multiple sclerosis

  Honours
  Mackay, Fabienne Group

• The role of CXCR7 in tissue fibrosis

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Mackay, Fabienne 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

• Developing mathematical models of influenza immunity from cohort studies

  PhD/MPhil
  McVernon Group

• HIV integration sites and expansion in antigen specific T cells

  PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
  Lewin/Cameron Group

• Eliminating HIV latency – towards a cure for HIV

  PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
  Lewin/Cameron Group

• Immune regulation adipose tissue health

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Kallies Group

• Molecular regulation of tissue-resident T cell differentiation

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Kallies Group

• Regulatory T cell differentiation and function in disease

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Kallies Group

• The role of cellular metabolism in immune cell function

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Kallies Group

• Molecular control of T cell responses to chronic infections and tumors

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Kallies Group

• Myeloid-derived suppressor cells and their influence on antiviral CD8+ T cell immunity

  Honours
  Jackson 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

• Genomic modelling and machine learning to reveal genomic mediators of disease in Staphylococcus aureus

  PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
  Howden Group

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

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

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

  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

• Determining the role of CD8 resident memory T cells in the control of Leishmania infection

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

• Identification and characterisation of type-2 NKT cells using CD1d tetramers

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

• Development of Mucosal-Associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells

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

• The therapeutic potential of unconventional T cells in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

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

• Vertical transmission of Alphaviruses in mosquito vectors

  Honours
  Fazakerley Group

• SOCS proteins as controllers of persistent viral infection

  Honours
  Fazakerley Group

• Evolution of streptococcal pathovars

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

• Worldwide molecular analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes scarlet fever outbreaks

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

• Typhoid in the Pacific

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

• Application of systems informatics to analysing the dynamics of Streptococcus pyogenes infection

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

• Population genomics of endemic Streptococcus pyogenes

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

• Understanding the critical interactions between influenza RNA polymerase and nucleoprotein that determine replicative fitness

  Honours
  Brown Group

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

  PhD/MPhil, Honours
  Lewin/Cameron Group

• Development and function of atypical MR1-restricted T cells

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

• Discovering the mechanistic basis of hyperinflammatory disease due to influenza infection

  Honours
  Brown Group

• Understanding how NK cell receptors regulate target cell recognition

  PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science
  Brooks Group

• Interaction between microbiota and CD8+ T cell immunity

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

• The gut microbiota in health and nutrition

  PhD/MPhil
  Howden Group