Current Honours Projects

Cancer Drug Discovery
Cancer Mechanisms
Cell Biology
Clinical and Education
Inflammation & Infection
Molecular and Drug Discovery
Neuroscience

If you are enrolled and your name is not listed below, please contact the Honours Coordinator.

Cancer Drug Discovery

Student	Project Title	Primary Supervisor	Co- Supervisor	Associate Supervisor	School- Supervisor	Examiner 1	Examiner 2
Victoria Cheung	Study of the Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Neuroblastoma Initiation and Validation of New Drugs Designed to Target Some of these Mechanisms	Eric Sekyere	Glenn Marshall			Joshua McCarroll	Renate Griffith
Min Min Da	Investigating the Anti-leukaemia Properties of Sphingosine Analogues	Anthony Don	Richard Lock		Patsie Polly	Pierre Dilda	Cristan Herbert
Wendi Hoang	New Inhibitors for Targeted Therapy of Mixed Lineage Leukaemia (MLL) in Children	Michelle Henderson			Patsie Polly	John Pimanda	Justine Stehn
Sheena Ramasamy	Allopurinol: Safe and Effective Uses	Ric Day	Ken Williams			Patrick McNeil	Justine Stehn
Alexander Swart	Opioid Dependent Persons in Pharmacotherapy: Blood Borne Viruses and Cancer Risk	Claire Vajdic			Nick Hawkins	Libby Topp	Trudie Binder

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Cancer Mechanisms

Student	Project Title	Primary Supervisor	Co- Supervisor	Associate Supervisor	School- Supervisor	Examiner 1	Examiner 2
Shivali Gupta	Molecular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Wasting due to Cancer Cachexia	Patsie Polly	Timothy Tan			Shane Thomas	Anthony Kee
Yizhou Huang	Phosphorylation of ERG in Leukaemic Cells	John Pimanda	Jason Wong	Julie Thoms		Shane Thomas	Angela Finch
Shoahaib Karimi	Molecular Basis of Cardiomyopathy due to Cancer Cachexia	Patsie Polly	Timothy Tan			Justine Stehn	David Simar
Dougall Norris	Identification of Target Genes Regulated by a Tumour Suppressor (TRIM16)	Belamy Cheung	Glenn Marshall			Michelle Henderson	Patsie Polly
Nelson Russia	The Role of Pancreatic Stellate Cell Interactions in the Chemoresistance of Pancreatic Cancer	Phoebe Phillips	Minoti Apte			Justine Stehn	Nick Hawkins
Peter Zarzour	Discovery of Novel Somatic Mutations in Laterally Spreading Tumours of the Colorectum Using Next Generation Sequencing	Luke Hesson	Jason Wong		Nick Hawkins	Caroline Ford	Patsie Polly

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Cell Biology

Student	Project Title	Primary Supervisor	Co- Supervisor	Associate Supervisor	School- Supervisor	Examiner 1	Examiner 2
Simon Brayford	Spatial Segregation of Tropomyosin Isoforms at the Leading Edge	Peter Gunning	Galina Schevzov			Christan Herbert	Shane Thomas
Samantha Cabrera	Tropomyosins, a Novel Regulator of Adipocyte Proliferation and Differentiation	Anthony Kee	Edna Hardeman			Margaret Morris	Chris Maloney
Sera Hartmann	The Effect of Age on Spinal Fusion in a Rabbit Model	Rema Oliver	Bill Walsh			Jia Lin Yang	John Booth
Paula Ordonez	Extracellular Matrix Components in Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency	Nick Di Girolamo	Denis Wakefield			Edna Hardeman	Carolyn Geczy
Andrew Samaan	Surgical Anatomy of the Cardinal Ligament and its Relations with Surrounding Structures and Pelvic Fascia	Dzung Vu	Bernard Haylen			Neville Hacker	Ken Ashwell
Felicia Ton	Effect of Angiogenesis in Muscle Regeneration	Nalini Pather	David Simar			John Pimanda	Mark Hill
Lisa Tran	Insulin-Dependent Changes to the Tropomyosin/Actin Cytoskeleton in Adipocytes	Anthony Kee	Edna Hardeman			Phoebe Phillips	David Simar
Joseph Xavier	Investigating Synthetic Osteoinductive Implants via Intramuscular Implantation in a Sheep Model	Bill Walsh	Nicky Bertollo			Ralph Stanford	Karen Gibson

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Clinical and Education

Student	Project Title	Primary Supervisor	Co- Supervisor	Associate Supervisor	School- Supervisor	Examiner 1	Examiner 2
Nadine Elias	Exhaled Breath Analysis of Respiratory Disease Using an Electronic Nose and Breath Condensate	Deborah Yates	Paul Thomas			Anup Desai	Sacha Stelzer-Braid
Justin Friedman	Prospective Study of VTE Incidence in Community Based Heart Failure Patients	Beng Chong				Shir-Jing Ho	Angela Finch
Samantha Jaensch	The Impact of Decision Support on Hospital Prescribing	Melissa Baysari	Ric Day (joint supervisor)			Joanne Callen	Ross Grant
Yuri Morgulis	Multimedia and Education in Pathology	Gary Velan	Rakesh Kumar			Nicodemus Tedla	Nick Hawkins

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Inflammation and Infection

Student	Project Title	Primary Supervisor	Co- Supervisor	Associate Supervisor	School- Supervisor	Examiner 1	Examiner 2
Linda El-Bayeh	Immunopathogenesis of Hepatitis C Infection	Andrew Lloyd	Fabio Luciani				Sacha Stelzer-Braid
Samantha Guinn	Cytokines, Chemokines and Growth Factors Implicated in Angiogenesis during Muscle Regeneration	Nalini Pather				Anthony Kee	Rakesh Kumar
Mohammad Hussein	Studies in to the Cross-talk between Indoleamine 2 3-Dioxygenase and Heme Oxygenase-1 in Human Dendritic Cells	Shane Thomas	Mohammed Freewan			John Hunt	Gilles Guillemin
Daniel Lim	Biochemical Studies on the Heme Peroxidase Activity of the Immune-regulatory Protein Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase	Shane Thomas	Elias Glaros			Jason Wong	Carolyn Geczy
Georgia Margalit	Inflammation-related S100 Proteins in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	Patrick McNeil	Carolyn Geczy (joint supervisor)	Sean O'Neill		Gilles Guillemin	Phoebe Phillips
Valentina Nikiforova	Effects of Anti-inflammatory Compounds on Alveolar Macrophages Alternatively Activated In Vitro	Rakesh Kumar	Melissa Scott			Nick Di Girolamo	Gilles Guillemin
David Williamson	T Cell Glucose Metabolism and the Outcome of Primary Hepatitis C Viral Infection	Amany Zekry	Andrew Lloyd			Michael Grimm	Chris Maloney
Shima Zahrooni	Anti-Cholestrol Autoantibodes in SLE Patients	Sean O'Neill	Patrick McNeil (joint supervisor)			Bill Giannakopoulos	Peter Gunning

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Molecular and Drug Discovery

Student	Project Title	Primary Supervisor	Co- Supervisor	Associate Supervisor	School- Supervisor	Examiner 1	Examiner 2
Erica Diezmos	Expression and Localisation of Pannexin Hemichannels in Human Colon in Health and Disease	Lu Liu	Paul Bertrand			Tim Murphy	Shaun Sandow
Sarah Finlayson	Investigation of Combination Therapies to Protect against UV-induced NAD+ Depletion in Primary Human Fibroblasts	Ross Grant				Trudie Binder	Nick Di Girolamo
Swastika Kumar	Regulation of Expression of Connexins 43 and 45 by Female Hormones in Human Colonic Smooth Muscle	Lu Liu	Liz Burcher			Trudie Binder	Shaun Sandow
Erica Leonar	Allosteric Modulation of the β₂-adrenoceptor	Angela Finch				Lu Liu	Tim Murphy
Hassina Massudi	Age Associated Changes in Human Tissue [NAD(H)] and Oxidave Stress Markers	Ross Grant	Nady Braidy			Gilles Guillemin	Margaret Morris
Hangyu Yi	Targeting Human Kinases with Small Molecule Inhibitors	Renate Griffith	Jonathan Morris			Larry Wakelin	Glenda Halliday

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Neuroscience

Student	Project Title	Primary Supervisor	Co- Supervisor	Associate Supervisor	School- Supervisor	Examiner 1	Examiner 2
Selena Hu	Relationship between Cognition and Hormone Levels in People with Schizophrenia on the Basis of ESR-1 Genotype	Tom Weickert	Cynthia Shannon-Weickert			Timothy South	Lu Liu
Samantha Owens	Modulation of Sex Steroid Receptors and Steroidogenesis in Adolescent Male Rat Dorsal Striatum by Testosterone	Cynthia Shannon-Weickert	Tertia Purves-Tyson (joint supervisor)			Kuldip Sidhu	Stephen Palmer
Vishal Patel	Autonomic Responses in Everyday Wellbeing	Ute Vollmer-Conna	Alexander Burton		Andrew Lloyd	Denis Wakefield	Arun Krishnan
Reneesha Puran Singh	Optimisation of Clozapine Therapy	Ric Day	John Ray (joint supervisor)	Ken Williams		Garry Graham	John Langlands
Christine Shiner	The Effect of Brain Priming on Wii-based Movement Therapy Post-Stroke	Penelope McNulty	Winston Byblow			Richard Fitzpatrick	Nicole Jones
Jonathan Teo	Does Maternal Obesity Affect Ischemic Brain Injury in Offspring?	Nicole Jones	Margaret Morris			Gila Moalem-Taylor	Ross Grant

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Contact

Dr Patsie Polly
Honours Coordinator
Room 508
Wallace Wurth Building
T (02) 9385 2924
F (02) 9385 1389
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Honours Committee

Prof Nick Hawkins (Head of School)
Prof Ken Ashwell (Anatomy)
Dr Thomas Fath (Anatomy)
A/Prof Nick Di Girolamo (Pathology)
Dr Patsie Polly (Chair, Pathology)
A/Prof Renate Griffith (Pharmacology)
Dr Nicole Jones (Pharmacology)
Dr Karen Gibson (Physiology)