Current Students
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Doctor of Philosphy (PhD)
| Student | Project Title | Supervisor/s |
| Idrish Ali | Electrophysiological effects of early life stress - implications for limbic epilepsy |
Terence O’Brien /Nigel Jones/Michael Salzberg |
| Lucy Busija | The avoidable burden due to arthritis in Australia | Richard Osborne / Rachelle Buchbinder |
| Benjamin Cowie | The seroprevalence molecular characterisation and mathematical modelling of hepatitis B virus infection in Australia | Heath Kelly / Graham Brown |
| Lucy Crouch | GM-CSF, a key mediator in arthritis | John Hamilton, Andrew Cook & Glen Scholz |
| Dominic De Nardo | Molecular control of macrophage activation by Toll-like receptors | Glen Scholz, John Hamilton and Ashley Mansell |
| Natalie El Haber | Genetic and environmental determinants of gait/balance in adult female twins | John Wark / Hill |
| Emily Ericsson | Cytotoxic and NKT cells responses in the prevention of hepatitis C infection' | David Jackson / Joe Torresi |
| Lu Fang | Mechanisms of sex dimorphism in heart disease | Yean Lim |
| GaoQian Feng | Immunity to Malaria in Pregnancy | Stephen Rogerson |
| Arun Gandrathi | Role of NPY on cell firing patterns in a rat model of genetic absence epilepsy. | Terry O’Brien and Margaret Morris |
| Anastasia Hutchinson | Self-management strategy, microbial infection patterns and bomarkers in patients with exacerbations of COPD | Gary Anderson / Lou Irving |
| Amelia Koe | Early life stress and limbic epilepsy – causal role of corticosterone | Nigel Jones/Michael Salzberg/Terence O’Brien |
Gaurav Kumar |
Stress, limbic epileptogenesis and behavioural and cognitive disturbances. | Michael Salzberg/Terence O’Brien/Margaret Morris |
| Murray Leikis | Effects of anaemia and epoetin on kidney and muscle function in acute and chronic renal failure | Lawrence / Michael McKenna |
| Christina Lemmon/Van | Functional studies of brain activity in patients with dementia | A. Sergejew / Helme |
| Christopher Lemoh | HIV/AIDS in Victoria's African communities: reducing risk and improving care | Bev Biggs |
| Michael Lian | Vascular pathology in chronic kidney disease | Gavin Becker / Tim Hewitson |
| Christine Massa | The role of the plasminogen activators (PA)-urokinase PA and tissue type PA in inflammtory arthritis | Andrew Cook / John Hamilton |
| Katherine Murray/Moreton | Incidence, assessment and management of vestibular dysfunction | Hill / Bev Phillips/ John |
| Caroline Ng | Ion channelopathies in genetic and acquired models of epilepsy | Terence O’Brien/Kim Powell/Chris Reid |
| Thao Nguyen | IRAK-1 and Toll-like receptor mediated macrophage activation | Glen Scholz, John Hamilton and Matt Sweet |
| Aleksandra Pavlovic | Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging in pathogenesis and evolution of ischaemic brain disease | Stephen Davis / Patricia Desmond |
| Anthony Peterson | Molecular markers defining precursor phenotypes in gastric cancer | Andy Giraud / Louise Judd |
| Slave Petrovski | Bioinformatics: Application of pharmacogenomics to predict epilepsy treatment outcomes | Terry O'Brien / Richard Huggins |
| Sandra Petty | The effect of anti-epileptic medications on bone mineral density, bone turnover and fracture risk' | Terry O'Brien / John Wark |
| Jane Prosser | The brain–heart interface in acute stroke | Stephen Davis |
| Leo Rando | Impact of hpyerglycaemia on metabolic parameters and end organ damage in stroke and myocardial infarction | Peter Colman / Alicia Jenkins / Stephen Davis |
| Yeliz Rifat | Ananlysis of a novel family of tgenes critical for the development of the central nervous system | Stephen Jane |
| Kurt Roberts-Thomson | Electrical and structural remodelling of the atria in atrial arrhythmias | Jonathan Kalman / Prash Sanders |
| Tania Romano | Role of nutritional interventions in preventing poor bone structure and development in models of growth restriction | Mary Wlodek (Department of Physiology) and John Wark |
| Rebecca Rose | Warning readiness assessment in the Australian intensive care setting | Nursing / Jack Cade / Jeff Presneill |
| Jessica Salmon | Functional significance of the interaction between the T-cell oncoproteins SCL and LMO-2 in T-cell leukaemia | Stephen Jane / Curtis |
| Narmatha Satkunanathan | The use of conotoxins to alleviate neuropathic pain | Zeinab Khalil / B. Livett |
| Susan Senn | Pharmocogenomics: mechanisms underlying valproate associated weight changes | Terry O'Brien / Sof Andrikopolous |
| Sue Skull | A case–cohort study: impact of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination on hospital admissions due to community-acquired pneumonia among persons aged 65 years and older | Terry Nolan / Graham Brown |
| Kean Soon | Role of 16-slice computerised tomography in the evaluation of coronary disease and revascularisation procedures | Yean Lim / Neville Yeomans |
| Irene Stevenson | Mechanisms of atrial fibrilation | Jonathan Kalman / Harry Teichtahl |
| Janine Stubbs | Joe Torresi | |
| Rosemary Sutton | Identification and characterisation of novel factors that regulate erythroipoiesis and fetal globin gene expression | Stephen Jane |
| Duang Thammanichanon | TARC and MDC expression in chronic allograft rejection | Jim McClusky / Joe Torresi |
| Alex Umbers | Placental Malaria | Stephen Rogerson/ James Beeson |
| Anita Vinton | The relationship of the focal EEG changes seen on PET imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy to the underlying EEG activity and post surgical outcome | Terry O'Brien / Rodney Hicks / Patricia Desmond |
| Paul Vinton | An evaluation of the potential for new technology to contribute to improving tuberculosis control | Bev Biggs / Paul Johnson |
| Lucy Vivash | The development of flumazenil-PET as a clinical tool in the localisation of the epileptogenic focus in temporal lobe epilepsy | Terence O’Brien/Rod Hicks/Damian Myers |
| David Wang | Pathogenesis of sleep disordered breathing in stable methadone program patients | Neville Yeomans / Harry Teichtahl |
| Lindy Washington | Age differences in endogenous pain inhibitory systems | Stephen Gibson / Helme |
| Leon Worth | Clinical surveillance and risk factors predictive of catheter-related bloodstream infection in patients with haematological malignancy | Graham Brown / Monica Slavin |
| Meng Yang | Environmental enrichment and limbic epileptogenesis: mechanisms of neuroprotection. | Nigel Jones/Michael Salzberg/Sandra Rees |
| Laura Zamurs | Molecular regulation of migration and neoplastic colonic cells | Edouard Nice / Peter Gibson |
Thomas Zheng |
Cortico-thalamo-cortical mechanisms underlying genetically determined absence seizures and their modulation by anti-epileptic drugs | Terry O’Brien, Didier Pinault, Margaret Morris, Chris Reid |
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
| Student | Project Title | Supervisor/s |
| Ibrahim Al-Shinkity | Standardised approach for assessment and investigation of undifferentiated abdominal pain | Peter / David Taylor |
| Elizabeth Chow | Defining novel genes and genetic mechanisms in familial colorectal cancer from bedside to bench and back again | Finlay Macrae |
| David Edis | Peter Ebeling | |
| Andrew Grigg | Optimising the outcome of haemopoietic stem cell transplantation | Geoff McColl |
| Julian Hunt-Smith | New and existing markers of inflammation in cardiac vascular disease and their potential for the assessment of therapeutic options | Jack Cade |
| Fary Khan | Functioning and disability and quality of life in an Australian community cohort | John Plver / Peter Disler |
| Poh-Sien Loh | MR studies in brain recovery and potential therapeutic measures. Serial MR changes in hemispheric stroke and motor deficit. Comparing perfusion parameters generated by MRI | Stephen Davis / Brian Tress |
| Paul Older | Measurement of exercise oxygen consumption as a diagnostic tool with particular reference to perioperative risk assessment in the elderly | Neville Yeomanns |
| Sophie Treleaven | Prospective surveillance of pneumonia and meningitis attributable to Haemophulus influenzae type B (Hib) in Thailand | Bev Biggs / Terry Nolan / M. Stein |
| Ian Woolley | Determination of Fy numbers on erthyrocytes, reticulocytes and its relevance to malaria susceptibility | Bev Biggs |
| Srinivasa Yerra | Prospective, cross-sectional and longitudinal study of neurocognitive, neuropsychiatric personality and QOL issues in patients admitted to RMH video monitoring unit | Christine Kilpatrick / Dennis Velakoulis |
Master of Medicine
| Student | Project Title | Supervisor/s |
| Hakami Tahir |
Master of Science
| Student | Project Title | Supervisor/s |
| Goksel Doganay | Pharmacological manipulation of the vascular toxic effects of the AB protein | Zeinab Khalil |
| Barbara Newell | Richard Osborne | |
| Meng Yang | Nigel Jones | |
| Tanya Yuen |
Bachelor of Science (Honours) 2009
| Student | Project Title | Supervisor/s |
| Angeline Kuek |
The effect of Anti-Epileptic Drugs on Bone Health | John Wark |
| Anita Jacqueline Feigin | Khat Use and Its Impact on East African Communities in Melbourne | Bev Biggs, Margaret Hellard, Paul Dietze, Peter Higgs |
| Bryan Tang Wen Leaw | Effect of the epilepsy c121w mutation on rat subiculum | Elisa Hill & Steve Petrou |
| Christina Tucci | Characterization of Intestinal Metaplasia of the stomach | Dr. Alex Boussioutas Dr. Swati Baindur-Hudson |
| Katherine Hall | A feasibility study of outreach sexual health testing in schoolies. | Emma MyBryde, Dept Epidemiology, RMH and Margaret Hellard, Centre for Population Health, McFarlane Burnet Institute. |
| Katie Lee Butcher | Topic:IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE UNDERSTANDING OF LATENT TUBERCULOSIS, ITS TREATMENT AND TREATMENT SIDE EFFECTS | Supervisors:A/Prof Bev Biggs, Dr Caroline Marshall and A/Prof Karin Leder |
| Megan Oliva | The effects of anti-epileptic drugs on heterologously ecpressed voltage-gated ion channels. | Dr Chris French |
| Nadene Fangting Tam | Inflammatory interactions between the Wnt Pathway and inflammatory mediators in mesenchymal stem cells. | Dr Derek Lacey |
| Shalini Maran | ||
| Simon Elvis Chau | How does smooth muscle cell derived chemokines affect trophoblast cell function |
Dr Rosemary Keogh, Prof Steven Rogerson |
| Sook Wai Chang | Converting TGF-beta signaling into tumour killing | Dr. Hong-Jian Zhu |
| Sylvia Mahara | Analysis of novel genes involved in red cell production. | Prof. Stephen Jane, Dr. Gerhard Rank and Dr. David Curtis |
| Tae Hwan Kim | Is knocking out the gamma2 GABAA gene enough to cause epilepsy? & Testing the impact of insulin on the absence epilepsy in the R43Q mouse. | Dr Steven Petrou & Dr Chris Reid |
| Maverick Lau | The role of STAT6 mediated signaling in the asthmatic response of Lyn-deficient mice | Margaret Hibbs & Gary Anderson |
| Yan Fen Tan | Smoking and Bone Health |
Professor John Wark |
| Zohra Miazoi |
Advanced Medical Science (AMS) 2008–09
Thuvaraka Jeyakumaran t.jeyakumaran@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Prevalence and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in populations from the Horn of Africa (Supervisors: Prof Ebeling/A/Prof Biggs)
Bejoy Machumpurath b.machumpurath@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Clot burden is predictive of recanalization and clinical response after intravenous tPA post acute ischaemic stroke (Supervisor: Dr Yan)
Gorata Mathaithai g.mathaithai@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Prevalence and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in populations from the Horn of Africa (Supervisors: Prof Ebeling/A/Prof Biggs)
Maya Reddy m.reddy2@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Project title A model of functional disconnections to study the pathophysiology of psychosis and epilepsy (Supervisors: Dr Jones/Prof O’Brien)
Howard Tang h.tang6@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Assessing the development of MRI abnormalities as a
biomarker for disease progression in the GAERS rat model of epilepsy. (Supervisors: Dr Jones/ Dr Powell)
Edward Wang e.wang3@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Influence of gated blood pool scans on management of
oncological patients (Supervisor: Dr Lichtenstein)
Nick Yang n.yang4@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Antibodies in malaria immunity (Supervisor: A/Prof Rogerson)
Melissa Cheng j.cheng7@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au (Supervisor: Prof Winship)
Reece Lancaster r.lancaster2@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au Clinical predictors in patients with extra-cranial and
intra-cranial arterial dissection(Supervisors: Dr Yan/Dr Dowling)
Daniel Wong d.wong2@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au (Supervisors: Prof O'Brien)
UROP (University Research Opportunity Program) Students
- Elizabeth Christie: e.christie2@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au (Supervisor: Dr Julie Blasioli)
- Caroline Chua: l.chua7@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au, "Placental nutrient transport during malarial
pregnancy" (Supervisors: Associate Professor Stephen Rogerson and Dr. Phillipe Boeuf) - Amy Chung: a.chung3@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au (Supervisor: Dr Glen Scholz)