Honours
Projects Available in 2009
Below
is a list of the project titles that are available for 2009.
Click here or on the Lecturers name below
for full details of the available projects.
Dr
Stuart Cordwell, Prof Georges Grau, A/Prof
Brett Hambly, Prof Nick Hunt, Prof Nicholas
King, Prof Jillian Kril, A/Prof
Roger Pamphlett, Prof Des Richardson, Professor
Roland Stocker, Dr Paul Witting
Dr
Stuart Cordwell
- Peptide biomarkers
of myocardial ischemia
- The role of calcium
overload in myocardial I/R injury
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Professor
Georges Grau
- Assessing microparticles
as effectors in the microvascular lesion of cerebral malaria.
- Investigating
mechanisms of microparticle production by microvascular endothelial cells
and defining clinically useful inhibitors
- Defining the
implication of hypoxia in the pathology of cerebral malaria
- Determining the
interactions of MP with their target cells in the host
- Deciperhing the
involvement of TCTP proteins in malarial pathogenesis
- Defining intracellular
signalling pathways of microvascular endothelium stimulation by parasite and
host cells
- Dissecting the
molecular mechanisms of platelet-endothelial interactions
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Associate
Professor Brett Hambly
- Immunological
Mechanisms in Atherosclerosis
- Protein defects
causing Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Professor
Nick Hunt
- Understanding a key new enzyme in the kynurenine pathway
- What causes death and disability in bacterial meningitis?
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Professor
Nicholas King
- Changes in gene
expression in neurons and microglia in West Nile Virus (WNV) encephalitis
- Infiltrating
leukocytes in WNV encephalitis - their role in mortality
- The role of mucosal
dendritic cells in controlling virus infection in epithelium
- Maintenance of
epithelial barriers in cell defence against virus infection
- The role of Langerhans
and dendritic cells in initiating WNV immune responses
- The role of microparticles
in the immune response to WNV
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Professor Jillian Kril
- The substrate of memory impairment in Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
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Associate
Professor Roger Pamphlett
- Looking for the cause of motor neuron disease
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Professor
Des Richardson
- Development of
New Iron Chelators as Novel Drugs Against Cancer
- Transport of
Nitric Oxide in Cells and its Interaction with Iron Containing Proteins in
Tumour Cells
- The Function
of the Malignant Melanoma Tumour Antigen, Melanotransferrin (p97), in Tumourigenesis
- The Role of Iron
in the Pathogenesis of the Crippling Neurodegenerative Disease, Friedreich's
Ataxia
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Professor
Roland Stocker
- Role of indoleamine
2,3 dioxygenase in control of blood vessel tone in inflammation
- The role of heme
oxygenase as an antioxidant defense
- Control of growth
of vascular cells by heme oxygenase-1
- The role of heme
oxygenase-1 in cerebral malaria infection
- Imaging redox regulation of cellular signalling systems
- Role of cytochrome b5 in the reductive activation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase
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Dr Paul Witting
- Post translational changes to key cardiac proteins in the hearts of diabetic rats after experimental heart attack
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