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Unravelling how epithelial tissues detect and respond to cell death and injury
You will investigate how cells use mechanical communication to identify injury and preserve epithelial health and integrity.
- Supervisor
- Professor Professor Alpha Yap
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Using multiple data sources to understand the opioid crisis in Australia
Improve the monitoring of opioid consumption, legal and illegal. By triangulating the wastewater data with other data sets, it is expected to detect the misuse of opioids over time.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ben Tscharke
- Location
- Dutton Park campus
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences, Health sciences
Can the Relational Account predict search in multiple-element displays?
Test Becker's relational account of attention and eye movements (JEP-Gen, 2010) in multi-element displays. The experiments will involve using eye tracking, EEG and fMRI.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Stefanie Becker
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Mathematical sciences, Psychology
Implementing a life course approach in antenatal and postnatal care settings for prevention and reduction of noncommunicable disease risks in Nepal
Work with stakeholders and co-create tailored implementation strategies to support the delivery of NCD risk prevention and reduction interventions in primary healthcare settings in Nepal.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Abdullah Mamun
- Location
- Toowong
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Investigations into the antibacterial mechanism of action of cannabidiol
Understand how CBD works by genetic and molecular studies of bacterial interactions.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mark Blaskovich
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences
Optimising medicine information handover after discharge (OPTMED-D)
Improve patient outcomes and reduce avoidable medication-related hospital readmissions by optimising medicine information handover during transition of care through a randomised controlled trial.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Laetitia Hattingh
- Location
- Woolloongabba
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics
Explores microbial genomes for novel chemical diversity, in particular antibiotics. This is achieved through genome mining and metabolomics to find more effective antimicrobial agents.
- Supervisor
- Dr Zeinab Khalil
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Understanding how blood vessels in the brain are formed
Use biochemistry and structural biology to understand how the brain takes up dietary choline from the blood, and uses it to drive blood vessel growth.
- Supervisor
- Dr Rosemary Cater
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences
Unpacking lived experience of time in the digital world
Work on a project about the temporal dynamics of digital experiences in Asia or elsewhere, using media and cultural studies approaches.
- Supervisor
- Dr Giang Nguyen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Language, communication and culture
Why certain viruses don't get along in mosquitoes: Dissecting the mechanism of superinfection exclusion
Reveal how insect-specific flaviviruses prevent mosquitoes from transmitting diseases. It will dissect the intricate mechanisms of virus-mosquito interactions using state-of-the-art methods.
- Supervisor
- Dr Andrii Slonchak
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences