The AIBN has a range of projects available in various impact areas.
After you have found a project you are interested in, contact the research Group Leader associated with the project with information about yourself, and why you'd be an ideal applicant.
Want to learn more about being a PhD student at the AIBN?
AIBN offers Masters (by coursework) projects through enrolment in collaborating Schools at The University of Queensland. Summer and Winter research interns may have the opportunity to continue to pursue their projects into a Masters degree.
Available projects
- Associate Professor Idriss Blakey
- Professor Alan Rowan
- Professor Kris Thurecht
- Professor Andrew Whittaker
- Professor Ernst Wolvetang
- Professor Chengzhong (Michael) Yu
- Professor Zhiping (Gordon) Xu
- Associate Professor Chun-Xia Zhao
Or contact AIBN Researchers in your discipline of interest to discuss potential projects.
What to do
- Select the Masters project advisor name to download a PDF document with contact details and additional project information.
- Contact the project advisor directly to discuss the project and arrange a meeting or visit to the AIBN lab.
An Honours year is a chance for you to follow your passion by completing an independent research project under the guidance of an experienced researcher at the end of your undergraduate degree.
AIBN offers Honours projects through enrolment in collaborating Schools at The University of Queensland. Summer and Winter research interns can continue to pursue their projects into an Honours degree.
Take a look at the projects listed below or contact our researchers to talk about how we can develop an honours project with you.
Rowan Group
- Development of snake venom activated biomaterials to stop uncontrolled bleeding
- Differentiation of stem cells to repopulate bone forming and resorbing cell population
- Bone cell extracellular vesicles, natures ultimate nanoparticles driving cell signalling
- Osteocytes the master regulator of bone formation and the effect of major burns
- Guiding wound healing through biophysical control
- Collagen the founding matrix of our bodies but cellular production is not as simple as we might think.
- Unveil the drivers of vasculature regeneration during burns wound repair
- Get creative, make your own synthetic collagen III
Amiralian Group
- Biodegradable face mask
- Flexible antenna
- Antiviral coating materials
- Sugarcane derived nanorods as the building block for polymer brush systems.
Bernhardt Group
- Transport in nanoporous systems
- Computational studies of ionic liquids
- Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium fluids
- Quantum mechanics for the design of new materials
Blakey Group
Davis Group
- Development of future nanomedicines to inhibit pathological formation of amyloid plaques in amyloid disease
- Understanding the effect of gut-bacterial amyloids on amyloid plaques formation in Alzheimer’s disease
- Translocation of bacterial amyloids from gut to the brain and its implications in neurodegenerative disease
- Development of novel nanomedicines against bacterial amyloids
Howard Group
Mar Group
- Developing new bioinformatics methods for single cell RNA-sequencing data.
- Understanding ageing through genome-wide gene expression datasets
- Separating signal from noise - benchmarking bioinformatics methods to identify biology from big data!
- Characterizing variability of gene expression to find new regulators of human disease
- Investigating robustness in biological systems – viral infection, chemoresistance, and more!
Marcellin Group
Mercer Group
Ngo Group
- Developing novel models for motor neuron disease
- Energy dynamics in health and disease, and preclinical validation of therapeutic compounds
O'Mara Group
- The impact of lipid modifications on cell membrane function
- Computational strategies for targeted lipid nanotechnologies
- Allosteric modulation of synaptic proteins by neurosteroids and oxysterols
- Membrane mediated antimicrobial resistance
Qiao Group
- Development of superior sentinel lymph node mapping magnetic tracers for the clinical detection of lymph node metastasis
- “Smart” nanohybrid materials as effective drug delivery systems (DDS) for the controlled delivery of therapeutic agents to brain
- Building 3D brain organoid models of brain cancer to improve early screening methods for nanotheragnostics
- Design and development of representative brain organoids during health and following the progressive establishment of Alzheimer’s disease
- Multifunctional 3D Printing technique for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided regenerative medicine
- Bio-inspired magnetic nanotracers for single cell tracking
Schenk Group
- Production of vaccine adjuvants in genetically modified yeast
- Plastic waste to plastic value
- Brewing natural products with yeast
Thurecht Group
- Polymer Theranostics: Imaging a Treatment in vivo
- Development of novel radiopharmaceuticals
- Developing nanotechnology to explore the beneficial molecular mechanisms of exercise during cancer treatment
Trau Group
- Bioengineering Biosensors for Infectious Disease Diagnosis
- Building yeast-based bionanomaterials as diagnostic, vaccine and therapeutic platforms
- Developing nanotechnology to explore the beneficial molecular mechanisms of exercise during cancer treatment
- sEV integration
Wang Group
- Functional materials for rechargeable metal-sufur batteries
- Interfacial engineering for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
- Flexible thin-film batteries for Internet-of-Things devices
- Rational design of environmental-friendly and highly stable metal halide perovskites for efficient solar hydrogen generation
- Solar rechargeable flow batteries for solar energy storage
Whittaker Group
- Novel Biologically-Responsive MRI Agents
- MRI Imaging Agents for Disease Detection
- Light, pH and Ion Responsive Hydrogels
- Nanofunctional Surfaces for Control of the Biological Interface
- Understanding Effect of Architecture of Fluoropolymers on Their 19F MRI Properties
- Preparation and Application of Precise-Defined Polymers
- Developing new approaches for effective delivery of proteins
- Highly Efficient, Selective and Reusable Technology for PFAS Capture
- Design of Photo-patternable Thermal/Electrical Active Hydrogel as Smart Windows for Reducing Energy Consumption
- Protection and controlled release of small molecules
- Photo-directing Self-assembly of Block Copolymers as a Novel Lithography Technology for Next-generation Chips Manufacturing
Wolfram Group
Wolvetang Group
- Identifying the chromosome 21 genes that drive accelerated ageing in Down syndrome stem cells
- Modelling novel childhood leukodystrophies
- Peroxisomes and Ataxia telangiectasia
- Novel Cas9-enabled genome manipulation technologies
- Decoding cortical dysplasia with brain organoids
- Human brain organoids for understanding how SPG56 mutations cause hereditary spastic paraplegia
Xu Group
- Engineering novel nanoplatform for oral vaccine delivery
- Development of thermo-responsive hydrogels for mucosal microbicide delivery to prevent HIV transmission
- Fluorescence bioassay and imaging of intracellular redox biomolecules using responsive nanoprobe
- Biopolymer nanocarriers for eco-sustainable crop protection
- Development of a novel nano-emulsion platform for natural plant extracts delivery
Yamauchi Group
- Precise Engineering of Mesoporous Metals for Electrochemical Sensing of Biomolecules
- Nanoarchitecturing of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy Storage Applications
Yu Group
What to do
- Select the Honours project advisor name to download a PDF document with contact details and additional project information.
- Contact the project advisor directly to discuss the project and arrange a meeting or visit to the AIBN lab.
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