| PhD Students | ||
|---|---|---|
![]() | Lucia Aguilar Supervisors: Prof David Ayre & Assoc. Prof. Todd Minchinton | Project Title: Gene Flow and Morphological Variation in Barnacles Across a Biogeographic Barrier |
![]() | Louisa Armstrong Supervisor: Prof Kris French | Project Title: Role of Mycorrhizae in Plant Invasions. |
![]() | Rachael Bartlett Supervisor: Dr Ronald Sluyter & Dr Justin Yerbury | Project Title: Role of P2X7 in Motor Neuron Disease. |
![]() | Jessica Bramley-Alves Supervisors: Prof Sharon Robinson & Prof Kris French | Project Title: Effects of Climate Change on High Latitude Vegetation. |
![]() | Rebecca Brown Supervisor: Prof Mark Wilson | Project Title: The role of protein aggregation and chaperones in the pathology of MND |
![]() | Benjamin Buckley Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Marie Ranson & Dr Michael Kelso | Project Title: Amiloride: A unique anti-cancer drug discovery opportunity. |
![]() | Rachel Caldwell Supervisor: Dr Ren Zhang | Project Title: Bioinformatics of Gene Regulation |
![]() | Lauren Cole Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis | Project Title: Spatial and temporal patterns of invertebrate assemblages associated with rafting algal wrack. |
![]() | Daniel Coleman Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis | Project Title: Responses of molluscs to climate change. |
![]() | Kathryn Collins Supervisor: Dr Owen Price & Dr Trent Penman | Project Title: The development of models and methods to improve bush fire risk management planning. |
![]() | Patrick Constantinescu Supervisor: Prof Mark Wilson | Project Title: Synergy of Chaperones and Proteases in Extracellular Proteostasis. |
![]() | Simon Cook Supervisor: Dr Jason McArthur & Prof Mark Walker | Project Title: Characterising Streptokinase Polymorphism in Strepococcus Pyogenes |
![]() | Stephanie Courtney Jones Supervisor: Dr Adam Munn & Dr Phillip Byrne | Project Title: Impact of captive breeding regemins on on behaviour, physiology and survivial of released animals. |
![]() | Dezarae Cox Supervisor: Dr Heath Ecroyd | Project Title: The role of small heat shock proteins in Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation. |
![]() | Rebecca Dabbs Supervisor/s: Mark Wilson & Mark Walker | Project Title: Exploring the potential of Clusterin as an immune modulator. |
![]() | David De Oliviera Supervisor: Dr Martina Sanderson-Smith | Project Title: Characterisation of M Protein from Group A Streptococcal Isolates Assosciated with Invasive Infections |
![]() | Carlos Delgado-Velez Supervisor: Prof Kris French & Prof Sharon Robinson | Project Title: Ectoparasites and Stress in Urban Areas. |
![]() | Marie-Claire Demers Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis
| Project Title: Pattern and process in a threatened seagrass community: dynamics and habitat use by sessile epifaunal invertebrates in Posidonia australis. |
![]() | Lachlan Fetterplace Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis | Project Title: The ecology of temperate soft sediment fish assemblages. |
![]() | Cairo Forrest Supervisor: Prof Davis Ayre | Project Title: Genetic Rescue of Arid Zone Plants. |
![]() | Rebecca Gibson Supervisor: Prof Ross Bradstock | Project Title: Plant responses to fire across the semi-arid Mallee rainfall gradient. |
![]() | Amy-Marie Gilpin Supervisor: Prof David Ayre | Project Title: Pollination Biology of arid zone plants. |
![]() | Ben Gooden Supervisor: Prof Kris French | Project Title: Above Ground Impacts of Invasive Plants |
![]() | Nathanial Harris Supervisor: Assoc Prof Marie Ranson | Project Title: The Urokinase system in cancer growth and metastasis: Potential prodrug approaches. |
![]() | Jessica Holan Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis | Project Title: Impacts of climate change on high latitude marine invertebrate assemblages. |
![]() | Alice Hudson Supervisor/s: Prof David Ayre & Dr Mark Ooi | Project Title: Investigating the levels and origins of adaptive plasticity in dry sclerophyllous woodland species. |
![]() | Aidan Johnson Supervisor: Assoc Prof James Wallman | Project Title: Larval growth rates in forensically important southeastern Australian blowflies |
![]() | Blagojce Jovcevski Supervisor: Dr Andrew Aquilina | Project Title: Structure function and interactions of HSP20. |
![]() | Megan Kelly Supervisor/s: Prof Bill Buttemer & Mike Mahony (Newcastle University) | Project Title: Stress and immune function interactions in amphibians. |
![]() | Diana King Supervisor:Prof Sharon Robinson & Dr Laurie Chisholm | Project Title: Understanding How Environment Determines Antarctic Community Composition. |
![]() | Shan Kornfeld Supervisor/s: Prof Brett Garner and Dr Andrew Jenner | Project Title: design and characterisation of novel lipid-antioxidant peptides. |
![]() | Fabian Kreilaus Supervisor/s: Dr Andrew Jenner and Prof Brett Garner | Project Title: Importance of cholesterol metabolism and Lipid Peroxidation in Neurode generation. |
![]() | Isabella Lambert-Smith Supervisor/s: Dr Justin Yerbury | Project Title: Are proteostasis defects responsible for ALS?. |
![]() | Jodi Lee Supervisor: Assoc Prof Marie Ranson (Principal) | Project Title: Understanding the role of the plasminogen activation system and their inhibitors in Leukocytes. |
![]() | Laura Lopez Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis | Project Title: Transgenerational consequences of stress stemming from climate change: tests with a aquatic vertebrate. |
![]() | Diane Ly Supervisor/s: Dr Martina Sanderson-Smith and Asooc Prof Marie Ranson | Project Title: The impact of cell curface plasmin on the evasion of the host innate immune response by GAS. |
![]() | Meng Mao Supervisor: Prof Mark Dowton | Project Title: The Utility of Ribosomal Protein Genes for the Recovery of Phylogeny |
![]() | Luke McAlary Supervisor: Dr Andrew Aquilina and Dr Justin Yerbury | Project Title: Structural implications of SOD1 mutations. |
![]() | Russell McWilliam Supervisor: Assoc Prof Todd Minchinton & Prof David Ayre | Project Title: Species Distributions and Climate Change. |
![]() | Kayla Melbourne Supervisor: Dr James Wallman and Dr Phillip Byrne | Project Title: Intra- and interspaecific behaviour in larval and adult carrion-breeding blowflies in Australia. |
![]() | William Mulveny Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis & Dr Pia Winberg | Project Title: Cultivation of the green algae Ulva and its integration into Abalone Culture |
![]() | Hop Phan Supervisor: Dr Ren Zhang | Project Title: Arsenic resistance mechanisms. |
![]() | Aleta Pupovac Supervisor: Dr Ronald Sluyter & Assoc Prof Marie Ranson | Project Title: The P2X7 Receptor and the Release of Soluble CD23 |
![]() | Matthew Rees Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis | Project Title: Developing seascape models for Pelagic and Demersal fish assemblages. |
![]() | Kate Roberts Supervisor: Dr Justin Yerbury | Project Title: Examining the relationship between SODI mutation and glial activation. |
![]() | Robert Sawyer Supervisor: Prof Ross Bradstock | Project Title: Effects of Fire Regimes on Soil Charcoal |
![]() | Arief Setyanto Supervisor: Assoc Prof Ron West & Prof Martin Tsamenyi | Project Title: Fisheries and Fisheries Management in the Bali Strait, Indonesia. |
![]() | Paul Story Supervisor: Prof Kris French & Dr Adam Munn | Project Title: Intergrating sustainability and natural resource production systems with sound environmental management. |
![]() | Esther Tarszisz Supervisor: Dr Adam Munn | Project Title: Beyond predation: Causes of Woylie decline in areas protected from introduced predators. |
![]() | Erin Thornell Supervisor: Dr Andrew Aquilina | Project Title: The Role of Phosphorylation in Cataract |
![]() | Anh Pha Tran Supervisor: Dr Ren Zhang | Project Title: Study of arsenic resistance. |
![]() | James Tsatsaronis Supervisor/s: Dr Martina Sanderson-Smith & Prof Mark Walker | Project Title: Systems Biology Analysis of an Invasive Group A Streptococcal Isolate from the Northern Territory of Australia. |
![]() | Melinda Waterman Supervisor/s: Prof Sharon Robinson & Assoc Prof Paul Keller | Project Title: Cell Wall UV-B Screening Compounds in the Moss Ceratodon Purpureus: Using Novel Compounds to Describe Past Antarctic Climates |
![]() | Daniel Whiten Supervisor: Prof Mark Wilson & Dr Justin Yerbury | Project Title: Role of Proteostasis in MND pathology. |
![]() | Lauren Woolley Supervisor: Prof Mark Walker | Project Title: Developing an effective vaccine to prevent the colonisation of swine by mycoplasma Hyopneumoniae. |
![]() | Xuefei Yu Supervisor: Dr Ren Zhang | Project Title: Gene Regulations in Biotic and Abiotic Resistance |
![]() | Kiran Zahid Supervisor: Dr Ren Zhang | Project Title: Understanding the role of RNA silencing in Heterosis. |
![]() | Rafaa Zeineddine Supervisor: Dr Justin Yerbury and Prof Mark Wilson | Project Title: Elucidating the role of protein inclusions in the transfer of pathology in ALS. |
![]() | Hua Zhao Supervisor: Prof Brett Garner | Project Title: Lysosmal Cobalamin Metabolism in Ageing and Alzheimers Disease |
Masters Students | ||
![]() | Kim Barrett Supervisor: Prof Kris French & Dr Adam Munn | Project Title: The impact of Fipronil on the health of an arid zone marsupial. |
![]() | Huangcan Li Supervisor: Dr Ren Zhang | Project Title: Arsenic Resistance Mechanisms. |
![]() | Brett Loughlin Supervisor: Dr Trent Penman | Project Title: Examining the effectiveness of fire suppression actions. |
![]() | Clare McKenzie Supervisor: Assoc Prof Andy Davis and Dr Pia Winberg | Project Title: Exploring the industry potential of the green algea Ulva spp. |
![]() | Yiren Yang Supervisor: Dr Ren Zhang & Assoc Prof Yan-Xia Lin | Project Title: Bioinformatics of genes. |
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