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Unravelling mechanisms determining the balance between tolerance and immunity in the liver

Role of primary T cell activation in the liver in CD8 T cell tolerance more...

Supervisor(s): Bertolino, Patrick (Dr)

Modelling Parkinson's disease using control models

This project aims at developing control models of posture, balance and gait in humans. The models will be used to produce objective measures of movement disorders in patients suffer more...

Supervisor(s): Leong, Philip (Professor), Jin, Craig (Associate Professor), McEwan, Alistair (Professor)

Ecohydrological modelling of flood and groundwater dependent ecosystems

Protecting the iconic red gum and other floodplain forests in the Murray Darling Basin requires a good understanding of the long term water needs and how this interacts with climate more...

Supervisor(s): Vervoort, Willem (Associate Professor)

Evolutionary relationships of aerobic and anaerobic metabolic reactions

The generation of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere by oxygenic photosynthesis was the most important environmental event to affect both biology and geology. Accumulation of mo more...

Supervisor(s): Chen, Min (Professor)

Dynamics of litterfall and fine fuels after fire in sclerophyll forests and woodlands.

Litterfall is a dynamic process and subject to major seasonal variation.  In eucalypt forests and woodlands, droughts may induce significant (e.g. +50%) increases in annual lit more...

Supervisor(s): Adams, Mark (Professor)

JANA: a Java- based mixing pattern analyser for complex networks.

Many distributed systems in the real world, including social, biological and technical systems can be modelled as complex networks. During the past few years a number of new graph t more...

Supervisor(s): Piraveenan, Mahendra (Dr)

Political Economy

Political Economy at the University of Sydney is taught by the largest grouping of political economists at any Australian university. It is recognised as a leading centre of economi more...

Supervisor(s): Konings, Martijn (Dr), Bryan, Dick (Professor), Dunn, Bill (Dr), Stilwell, Frank (Professor), Rosewarne, Stuart (Dr), Chester, Lynne (Associate Professor), Cahill, Damien (Dr), Schroeder, Susan (Dr), Barrett, Jennifer (Associate Professor), Hill, Elizabeth (Dr), Fernandes, Sujatha (Professor), Bryant, Gareth (Dr)

Mapping genes for nerve disease

Our laboratory has an exemplary track record for mapping genes for inherited peripheral neuropathies. Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathy is a degenerative disorder of the peripher more...

Supervisor(s): Kennerson, Marina (Associate Professor), Nicholson, Garth (Professor)

Footwear and Lower Limb Health

The project conducts basic research into functional aspects of physical activity requiring support from the lower limb in disease and health and the effect of footwear on efficiency more...

Supervisor(s): Fong Yan, Alycia (Dr)

Improving weight loss outcomes via intermittent very low energy diets

This project aims to determine whether intermittent use of a very low energy diet (VLED) produces greater, more efficient, or longer lasting weight loss than continuous VLED use. more...

Supervisor(s): Salis, Amanda (Associate Professor)