Available postgraduate research topics

CSBi currently has a range of research projects available for Postgraduate students.  Some examples are:

Biomedical Science

  • The use of novel antagonists in a mouse lung model of inflammation.
  • Construction and evaluation of a virus like particle expressing Streptococcus pneumoniae epitopes for human vaccine purpose.

Contact A/Prof Michael Kotiw for further information   

  • Development of Depth of Anaesthesia Monitoring Techniques
  • Analysing EEG Signals using Wavelet based Independent Component Analysis
  • The Auto-Reconstruction of Realistic Head Modelling of EEG
  • Adaptive Speech Separation Using Hybrid Techniques
  • An Intelligent Technique for Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks 

Contact A/Prof Yan Li for further information.

  • Influencing factors in human visual perceptual rivalry.
  • Protein kinase genes and tumorigenesis: mechanism, prevention and treatment.    

Contact Dr Guang Bin Liu for further information. 

Bioinformatics

  • Information security when sharing within a distributed collaborative environment (Security related area)
  • Preserving privacy in data mining environments (Privacy area)
  • Limiting disclosure of private information in relational database systems.
  • Intelligent solutions for healthcare systems Security and privacy in database systems.
  • Workflow analysis in a wireless network
  • Data management and applications in data stream systems

Contact Prof Hua Wang for further information.

  • Data mining from data streams.
  • Knowledge mining from biological and medical data.

Contact Dr Ji Zhang for further information.

  • Ontology-based User Concept Modelling in Personalised Web Information Gathering

Contact Dr Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao for further information.

Crop Biotechnology

  • Host/pathogen interactions in soil-borne diseases of wheat and barley.
  • Molecular approaches to improving winter cereal disease resistance.

Contact Prof Mark Sutherland or Dr Anke Martin for further information.

  • Impacts of viticultural practices on grape and wine quality.
  • Optimising wine yeast selection and fermentation conditions.
  • Evaluation of grapevine rootstocks best suited to the Queensland biticultural environments.
  • Characterising the ultra violet light environment of grapevine canopies.

Please contact Dr Rob Learmonth or Ms Ursula Kennedy for further information.

  • Improving frost tolerance in cereals.

Please contact Prof Grant Daggard for further information.