Students - PhD and Honours projects

PhD and Honours projects

FInd out more about Honours and PhD projects offered at SVI.

Research Unit Disease focus Project title Project type Supervisor
Bone Cell Biology and Disease Arthritis Prevention of joint deterioration in osteoarthritis PhD/Honours Dr Nicole Walsh
Bone Cell Biology and Disease Osteoporosis gp130 and oncostatin M signalling in bone PhD A/Prof Natalie A Sims
Bone Cell Biology and Disease Arthritis The role of EphrinB2 signalling in bone remodelling PhD/Honours A/Prof Natalie A Sims
Cell Cycle and Cancer Cancer Regulation of cell cycle progression in human cancer PhD Dr Boris Sarcevic
Cell Cycle and Cancer Cancer Regulation of proliferation and metastasis in breast cancer PhD Dr Boris Sarcevic
Cell Cycle and Cancer Cancer Regulation of growth factor signaling and cell cycle progression PhD Dr Boris Sarcevic
Genome Stability Cancer Inhibition of the Bloom’s syndrome pathway as a mechanism of chemotherapy PhD Dr Andrew Deans
Genome Stability Cancer Regulation of DNA damage signaling by the tumour suppressor FANCM Honours Dr Andrew Deans
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes A humanized mouse model of the autoimmune response against insulin (Human Immunology Lab) PhD/Honours Dr Stuart Mannering
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes An assay to measure human autoimmune T-cell responses against islets (Human Immunology Lab) PhD/Honours Dr Stuart Mannering
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes Accelerating disease gene discovery using transposon mutagenesis (Immunogenetics Lab) PhD/Honours Dr Tom Brodnicki
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes How does bacterial infection affect susceptibility to type 1 diabetes? (Immunogenetics Lab) PhD/Honours Dr Tom Brodnicki
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes Genomic and functional analyses of a novel type 1 diabetes gene (Immunogenetics Lab) Honours Dr Tom Brodnicki
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes Potential role for granzyme A in type 2 diabetes (Islet Biology Lab) Honours A/Prof Helen Thomas
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes Preventing type 1 diabetes using specific inhibitors of perforin (Islet Biology Lab) PhD/Honours A/Prof Helen Thomas
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes Does insulin expression in APCs prevent diabetes after autoimmunity is established? (Immunology Lab) PhD/Honours Prof Thomas Kay
Immunology and Diabetes Type 1 diabetes Differentiation of antigen-specific CTL (Immunology Lab) PhD/Honours Prof Thomas Kay
Invasion and Metastasis Cancer Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) 13 in breast cancer growth and progression PhD Prof Erik (Rik) Thompson
Invasion and Metastasis Cancer Molecular and cellular basis of mammographic density in breast cancer PhD Prof Erik (Rik) Thompson
Invasion and Metastasis Cancer Integrin-linked kinase (ILK) in breast cancer therapy PhD Prof Erik (Rik) Thompson
Invasion and Metastasis Cancer Molecular regulation of breast cancer EMP PhD Prof Erik (Rik) Thompson
Molecular Cardiology Heart disease Aliskiren: cardioprotection by increased bradykinin levels? PhD A/Prof Duncan Campbell
Molecular Genetics Cancer Regulation of cell cycle checkpoint kinases PhD A/Prof Jörg Heierhorst
Molecular Genetics Cancer Role of ASCIZ in the DNA damage response and cancer development PhD A/Prof Jörg Heierhorst
Molecular Genetics Cancer Role of a novel transcription factor in the regulation of early lung development PhD A/Prof Jörg Heierhorst
Pharmacogenomics Cancer Galectin-3 and breast cancer metastasis PhD Dr Mark Waltham
Pharmacogenomics Cancer Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in human breast cancer PhD Dr Mark Waltham
Pharmacogenomics Cancer Pharmacogenomics PhD Dr Mark Waltham
Pharmacogenomics Cancer Identification of bone metastasis genes in a xenograft model of experimental breast cancer PhD Dr Mark Waltham
Protein Chemistry and Metabolism Type 2 diabetes Regulation of CaMKK PhD Prof Bruce E. Kemp
Protein Chemistry and Metabolism Type 2 diabetes AMPK regulation of lipid metabolism PhD Prof Bruce E. Kemp
Protein Chemistry and Metabolism Type 2 diabetes AMPK myristoyl-switching PhD Prof Bruce E. Kemp
Stem Cell Regulation Cancer Improving blood cell recovery after cytotoxic regimens PhD A/Prof Louise Purton
Stem Cell Regulation Cancer Targeting different HoxA1 isoforms for cancer therapeutics PhD A/Prof Louise Purton
Stem Cell Regulation Cancer Impact of TNFalpha in the bone marrow microenvironment in normal and stressed situations Honors A/Prof Louise Purton
Stem Cell Regulation Cancer Identification of osteoblast lineage cells by FACS in normal and cancerous states Honors Dr Emma Baker
Structural Biology Cancer Structural biology of proteins involved in cancer, infection and neurological diseases PhD Prof Michael Parker