Research areas
The research projects under way in the department draw on biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology and biophysics as they apply to areas including human diseases, plants and microorganisms.
- Signal transduction in health and diseases, including heart disease, stroke and cancer (Assoc Prof Marie Bogoyevitch)
- Enzymology & signalling mechanism of oncogenic and tumour suppressor enzymes (Assoc Prof Heung-Chin Cheng)
- Membrane trafficking, autoimmunity & cell biology of acid-secreting epithelia (Professor Paul Gleeson)
- NMR spectroscopy for investigation of protein structure & function (Assoc Prof Paul Gooley)
- Aberrant protein conformations, toxicity and disease (Dr Danny Hatters)
- Prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease & Parkinson's disease (Assoc Prof Andy Hill)
- Amyloid fibril formation and protein misfolding diseases (Assoc Prof Geoff Howlett)
- Molecular microbiology (Professor Malcolm McConville)
- Signal transduction & human diseases (Dr Terry Mulhern)
- Cytoskeleton regulation and signal transduction (Dr Dominic Ng)
- Molecular events leading to an immune response (Assoc Prof Tony Purcell)
- Drug targets and gene regulation in Plasmodium falciparum (Dr Stuart Ralph)
- Protein trafficking and cellular architecture in malaria parasite-infected erythrocytes and development of antimalarial drugs (Professor Leann Tilley)
- Cell biology, growth & development, autoimmune diseases and their genetic causes (Professor Ian van Driel)
- Antigen presentation in dendritic cells, proteostasis by membrane ubiquitin ligases, autophagy and adoptive cell therapy for the treatment of cancer (Professor Jose Villadangos)