Staff in the Department and the Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases [IBID] together with the Proteomics Centre of Expertise in the Faculty of Science have interests in the following research areas from which Honours research projects may be available in 2009. MSc and PhD projects (full or part-time) are also available in similar areas. Interested students should contact the appropriate staff member or Associate Professor Liz Harry, Honours Coordinator, email: liz.harry@uts.edu.au

Instructions for applying for Honours in MMB for 2009

2009 Honours Research Projects pdf version

To apply for Honours in MMB for 2009 you need to do the following:

1. Fill out a preference form for supervisor and project (download here) and submit by Friday 24th October to a box labelled “Honours Preferences MMB 2009” located at the foyer area on Level 6, Building 4.
2. You will be informed of your supervisor/project by Friday 31st October.
3. Your supervisor and you will complete an “Application for Admission to MMB Honours Program 2009” form (dowwnload here). You will only need to complete the top section labelled, “To be completed by Student”. The supervisor is responsible for filling out the rest and submitting it to the Honours Coordinator, Associate Professor Liz Harry, by November 21st.
4. Collect the UTS Direct Application form from the Building 6 Student Centre, in the Peter Johnson Building, Broadway Campus (across the Harris St footbridge from Science Building 4, turn left after crossing the bridge and you're there). Submit form to the box labelled “Honours application forms” located on Level 6, in the Thomas St wing of building 4, by November 21st. This box will be available from 17th November. Although this form is not due at the Student Centre until a much later date, MMB needs it by 21st November to process the forms, and sign them at the same time as the Faculty forms mentioned in 3. above. These forms are then sent from the Faculty to the Student Centre.
5. For international students, you must complete an International Student Admission form in Step 4. This is obtained from the UTS International Office.
6. You will be informed of the progress of your application for Honours in early December, 2008. Final approval of applications will be made when the Spring 2008 results are available (~20th December, 2008).
7. The procedure above does not constitute enrolment, just admission to the Honours course. You will need to enrol in 2009, as usual.

Research Projects

RESEARCH AREA: INFECTIOUS DISEASES (PARASITOLOGY)

• Excreted secreted antigens of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii
• Genotyping of Entamoeba moshkovskii (in collaboration with Profs Harkness and Marriott and Dr D. Stark, Department of Microbiology, St. Vincent's Hospital)
• Excreted secreted proteins of Dientamoeba fragilis (in collaboration with Profs Harkness and Marriott and Dr D. Stark, Department of Microbiology, St. Vincent's Hospital)
• Parasites in water (in collaboration with Profs Harkness and Marriott and Dr D. Stark, Department of Microbiology, St. Vincent's Hospital)

Supervisors: Dr Hayley Green and Dr Meiya Sutisno MMB, UTS

Supervisor: Associate Professor Liz Harry IBID/MMB, UTS

Supervisor: Associate Professor Ben Herbert Proteomics Technology Centre of Expertise/MMB, UTS

Supervisor: Dr Sara Lal MMB, UTS

Supervisors: Dr Josie Lategan IWERM, Dept of Environmental Sciences & Professor John Ellis IBID/MMB, UTS

Supervisors: Dr Najah Nassif and Dr Bronwyn O'Brien MMB, UTS

Supervisor: Associate Professor Graham Nicholson MMB, UTS

• Using spider and wasp venoms for insecticide design
• Pharmacological characterization of the venom of the white-lipped snake

Supervisor: Dr Bronwyn O'Brien MMB, UTS

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Sedger IBID/MMB, UTS

• Unraveling mechanisms of B cell homeostasis in the immune system (in collaboration with Professor Robert Raison)
• Viral subversion of inflammation by inhibition of TNFR signaling

Supervisor: Dr Hui Chen MMB, UTS (in collaboration with Professor Margaret J Morris, Dept Pharmacology, UNSW)

LOCATION: Building 4, UTS and Wallace Wurth Building, UNSW, Kensington

Supervisor: Professor Ann Simpson MMB, UTS

Supervisors: Associate Professor Nick Smith and Dr Kate Miller IBID/MMB, UTS

Supervisor: Dr Meiya Sutisno MMB, UTS

Supervisors: Dr Meiya Sutisno and Dr Tamara Sztynda MMB, UTS

Supervisor: Dr David Van Reyk MMB, UTS

• Role of oxidants generated by heme peroxidases in cellular dysfunction and disease (in collaboration with Professor Michael J. Davies, Heart Research Institute, Camperdown)

  LOCATION: Heart Research Institue, Camperdown (www.hri.org.au)

• Polymorphisms in the macrophage cation transporter SLC11A1 and their modulation of macrophage function (in collaboration with Dr Bronwyn O'Brien and Dr Najah Nassif )

Supervisor: Dr Tamara Sztynda MMB, UTS

Supervisors: Associate Professor Cynthia Whitchurch and Dr Lynne Turnbull IBID/MMB, UTS

Supervisor: Associate Professor Anita Piper MMB, UTS

• Comparison of transcriptional regulation of the multidrug resistance gene MDR1 in different types of cancers.
• Development of a forensically informative multiplex SNP assay

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Shepherd MMB, UTS (in collaboration with Professor Robert Flower, Royal North Shore Hospital)

• Detecting Blood Doping
• Anti-influenza activity in traditional aboriginal medicines use to treat respiratory infection

Supervisor: Professor Hatch Stokes, IBID/MMB, UTS (Professor Stokes will be joining UTS in November 2008)

• The role of integrons in the spread of antibiotic resistance
• The role of integrons in the evolution of the Bacteria