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Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

ARC/NWC National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training

NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship

Optimisation of the electrical and optical properties of ZnO nanowires for advanced nanodevice applications

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A new end use of recycled water for sustainable Australian water

Bacterial filamentation as a survival strategy: a goldmine for the discovery of new cell division regulators

Choice experiments to improve predictive power for policy makers

Ecosystem services: A concept linking management actions and ecosystem outcomes

Feeding and breeding: Rainfall effects on connectivity and fidelity of iconic coastal fishes

Investigation of endocrine disruption in Australian aquatic environments

New Valuation and Parallel Simulation Methods for Finance and Insurance

Novel technologies to resolve the role of organic matter on iron chemistry and bioavailability in the South Pacific Ocean

The Effectiveness of Forensic Science in the Criminal Justice System

The training and job decisions of nurses: an integrated approach using panel surveys and dynamic choice experiments

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Development of Low Cost, High Quality Nitrides for Solid-State Lighting and Other Power Saving Applications

Development of direct-write focussed electron beam processing techniques for nano-fabrication applications

Devices that use Ion Channels

Evaluation of train driver work culture and environment for improving railway safety

Investigating the Ability of Honey to Inhibit Bacterial Biofilms Found in Chronic Wounds

Near Infrared (IR) Laser Dyes for Latent Fingermark Detection

Novel effects of metamaterials on propagation and localisation of electromagnetic waves in photonic crystal structures

Photodesorption Phenomena and Photoreactive Nanosorbent Materials for Water and Wastewater Purification

Radiative Cooling Tuned to the Spectral and Directional Infra-red Properties of the Atmosphere

Silent witness: New analytical approaches to advance and enhance the forensic value of human hair

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN): Australian National Flux Network - Alice Springs Region Mulga (Northern Territory): OzFlux

The Ongoing Evolution of Class 1 Integrons and the Recruitment of New Resistance and Virulence Genes into Pathogens

Tunable metallophthalocyanine complexes for molecular electronics

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Boundary Crossing Analysis for Random Processes with Applications to Risk Management

Characterisation of extracellular DNases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their contribution to disease

Development of new methods for the synthesis of plasmonically-active precious metal rods and shells

Examination of the role of biofilms in infection with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Forecasting impacts of changing detrital biodiversity on Australia's estuarine ecosystems

Genetic dissection of biofilm development by non-typeable Haemophilus influenza

Integrons, mobile gene cassettes and pathogencity in vibrio cholerae

Microbial Oceanography: Community Heterogeneity Fuelled by Environmental Variability

Mitigation of Impacts on Groundwater Dependent Vegetation Through Adaptive Abstraction Regimes

Naturalisation to Invasion: How do Naturalised Plants Become Successful Invaders?

New metal-molecule binding motifs for self-assembled monolayers and nanodevices

Performance and safety evaluation of the BioQ Aortic Assist Device in a chronic model of ovine heart failure

Pricing and Hedging Extreme Maturity Contracts

Regulation of immune mechanisms by pathogen cysteine proteases

Reversal of Diabetes in Pigs Using Liver-directed Gene Therapy

Spatially integrated estimates of landscape water fluxes at several contrasting sites

Stabilization of hydrology at waste disposal sites through revegetation

Subsurface investigations of Marine Plain, Antarctica

The Bidirectional Liver TRAIL

The biology of integrons and their role in bacterial adaptation

Use of effects-based bioassays to assess the endocrine disruption potential of advanced tertiary treated sewage effluent

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Aminopeptidases involved in regulating the amino acid pool in malaria parasites

Bacterial Cell Biology: Investigating an Optical Revolution

Bio-optical model of Antarctic sea-ice algae photosynthesis

Coal-ash as a resource for sustainable soil-management in plant production systems

Design and testing of an object-oriented network flow modelling system

Development of a light detection system for enhanced scanning electron microscopy imaging of fully hydrated biological specimens at room temperature.

Development of natural herbal medicines for managing metabolic syndrome in order to prevent type 2 diabetes

Ecological impacts of QX Oyster disease and its management strategies

Effect of Deep-Sea Drilling on Sustainability of Deep-Sea Ecosystems

Enhancing the independence of the severely disabled: Improving the detection rates of an EEG based brain computer interface (BCI)

Establishing how bacterial cells position the division site

Exploiting the properties of gold nanoparticles for nanolithography using visible wavelengths

Formation of bone-like materials for bone repair and regeneration

From the Ice to the Open Ocean: Threats to Phytoplankton Productivity in Antarctica from a Changing Climate - Scholarship: Katerina Petrou

Gastrointestinal parasites and their diagnosis

Identifying novel insecticides and their targets: probing Australian arachnid venoms

Impacts of changing detrital source biodiversity on estuarine ecosystems

In-situ nucleation and growth of gold nanorods

Innovative hands-free technology to give the severely disabled greater mobility control

Investigating Linkages Among Individual Decision Rules, Properties of Experimental Designs and Choice Models In Environmental Economics Applications

Large-Scale Simulation Methods for Measuring Financial Performance under the Benchmark Approach

Measuring tree water use and calculating stand water use

Mechanistic and probabilistic approaches to assessing the impact of pesticide mixtures in Australian waterways

Molecular toxinology of Australian box jellyfish venoms

Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Cell Division in Model Pathogenic Bacteria

Optically-selective window coatings of precious metal nanoparticles

Optimising train driver vigilance system: reactivation of a fatigued driver

Parasite virulence: the role of activation and suppression of P2X7 receptors

Photosynthetic condition of Southern Ocean phytoplankton

Risk Measurement for Large Portfolios under the Benchmark Approach

Seagrass tolerance of oil spills - scaling of pollution impacts

Self-assembled surface arrays of mesoscale plasmonic devices for switchable control of coloured surfaces

SmartData: developing intelligent database system for communicating information to aviation and professional vehicle operators: towards safer transport industries

Structural Characterisation of AuCuAl Alloys: ANSTO scientist support for Vijay Bhatia during P987 (Bragg Institute)

The Ecohydrology of Australian Landscapes: An Analysis and Synthesis

The biosynthesis of structural proteins in parasites

Thiol Metabolism in Parasitic Nematodes

Unraveling foodweb relationships in the Northern Tasman Sea: A hotspot for climate change

When corals bleach, what is the weakest photosynthetic link?

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A New Integrated Approach to Managing Risk in Financial Markets

A new approach to understanding community variation in marine soft-sediments

Application of discrete choice experiments to value multi-attribute health states for use in economic evaluation

Approximation and Simulation of Large Diversified Portfolios

Bacterial Proteomics: From Cell Division to Novel Antibiotic Targets

Bacterial cell division: discovering how it begins and the network of protein interactions it requires

Conservation ecology of the black cod (Epinephelus daemelii)

Developing vehicle-based advanced warning countermeasures for driver fatigue

Development of Field Portable Devices for the Detection of Explosives Residues - Phase 2

Development of Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Development of Planar Patch-clamp Electrophysiology to Investigate Liposome-based Artificial Nanosensor Devices

Electronic and Chemical Structure of Fe Dopants in Zn0 Nanorods

Fluorescence Imaging and Analysis of Bacterial Surface Motility

Functional and structural diversity of the cathepsin L peptidase from the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

Impact of industrially based endocrine disrupting chemicals on aquatic biota

Investigations of the anti-atherogenic properties of a histidine-containing dipeptide, carnosine, in a murine model of diabetes-accelerated atherosclerosis

R Douglas Wright Biomedical Career Development Award

Small Punch Testing of Advanced Metal Matrix Composites

Small punch testing of advanced Metal Matrix composites

The Effects of Saline Mine Water Discharge on Aquatic Biota

The Hawkesbury Forest Experiment: Impacts of Precipitation and CO2 on Trees

The mechanisms of settlement success in coral reef fishes

The molecular basis for oocyst and cyst wall formation in apicomplexan parasites

Transport Proteins as Drug Targets in Parasitic Nematodes

Trophic cascades in Australian seagrasses: linking nutrients to survival and growth of commercially-important fishes

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

ARC Centre for Excellence for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems

Assessing the impacts of inorganic carbon availability on coral bleaching

Characterisation and Analysis of Sol-Gel Derived Hydroxyapatite and Zirconia Nano-coating Interfaces with Anodised Titanium Sustrates

Compositional Variation of Organic Detritus in Botany Bay during the Holocene

Correction of diabetes in an autoimmune model using insulin-secreting liver cells

Development Of Field Portable Devices For The Detection Of Explosives Residues Project

Development of growth strategies to fabricate wide band gap ferromagnetic semiconductors for spin electronics applications

Electric properties of Sub-3nm Au Nanoparticles

Electronic structure of aligned Zn0 nanowires

High temperature fatigue behaviour and life prediction of advanced engineering materials

Identification of structural proteins in the tissue cyst wall of Toxoplasma gondii

Mechanisms linking site water status and net primary productivity

Microstructural study of VO2 phase transition

New methods to harvest light: Towards better dye-sensitized solar cells

One Step Pre-forms for Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre

Pharmacological and biochemical characterisation of Australian mygalomorph spider venoms

Recruitment and activation of alternatively activated macrophages by thioredoxin peroxidases in helminth infections

Relationships amongst water-use efficiency (carbon isotope discrimination) climate and hydraulic architecture of Australian trees

Study of bone derived hydroxyapatite powders

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Characterisation of reinforced hydroxyapatite ceramics and their applications to strengthening biocompatible implants.

Detection of peptide hormone performance enhancing agents in sport using mass spectrometry.

Determining compositional changes in estuarine detritus in Botany Bay since European colonization.

Development of a passive sampler device for polar pesticides

Development of new-generation autoclaved cellulose fibre-cement composites using alumina-silica rich industrial waste

Functional and Genetic Complexities of Coral Bleaching at Multiple Scales

Immunological characterization and encapsulation of a bioengineered insulin secreting liver cell

Meat and Livestock Association (MLA) Junior Research Fellowship

Modelling the Choices of Individuals

Nanoparticle fluorescent labels as a platform for high throughput data gathering

New Technologies for the study of parasite genetics

Photokinetic Adaptation Of Sea-Ice Algae

Physical and mechanical properties of nanoscale sol-gel derived coatings on titanium substrates

Probing the electronic structure of the encapsulated atom in alkali-doped endofullernes

Reversal of ivermectin resistance in the sheep parasite Haemonchus contorus

Surgical Imaging System for the Treatment and Cure of Diabetes Mellitus

The impact of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in sewage contaminated waters on aquatic biota and identification of the causative compounds.

The mucosal immune system of fish: analysis of the immune repertoire in gut-and gill-associated lymphoid tissues in trout.

Tree water use and amelioration of dryland salinity

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Are Antarctic macroalgae more sensitive to contaiminants than lower latitude species?

Cellulose co-crystallisation and the ageing of paper

Co-doping and transition metal doping of Gallium Nitride

Cost effective high output polymer fibre optic lighting systems

Fracture Toughness and Interfacial Fracture Energy of Sol-Gel Developed Nanocoatings

Identification of the photochemical trigger of coral bleaching and the role of photoprotective mechanisms

Late Deglaciation - Early Holocene El Nino variability on Peru margin

Sleep Disorder: psychophysiological implications for driver fatigue and or the development of a fatigue counter measure device

Study of Bone Derived Hydroxyapatite

The sedimentary record of ENSO in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean over the past 18,000 years

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

2nd International Conference on Sustainable agriculture, food, energy and industry - Travel / Conference Grant

A Fundamental Study Of The Behaviour Of Clay Brick Fines In Autoclaved Calcium Silicate Based Building Products

Antigenic analysis of the surface of Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts

Application of Silver Coatings to medical Devices for Antimicrobial Properties using Electroless Deposition

Australian-European Union Nanotechnology Capabilities Workshop, 17-18 November 2003

Efficacy trials of a maternally-delivered recombinant vaccine against coccidiosis

Elemental Analysis of Layers in Banded Opals

High Resolution climate studies in temperate Eastern Australia estuaries

Investigation of residual stress distribution in mollusc shells

Light Emission and Localization in Photonic Clusters and Random Lasers

Living on the edge: settlement dynamics of reef fishes across their ranges

Magmatic Evolution and Tectonic Setting of Bitter Ground Volcanics, NSW

Mind Switch control of implantable stimulators for the profoundly disabled

Novel insecticidal neurotoxins from Australian spider venoms

Palaeo-El Nino activity on the Peru margin over the past 20,000 yr BP.

Population Dynamics and Evolution of Mosquitoes that Transmit Malaria

Spatial analysis of the distribution of the Anopheles punctulatus group of malaria vectors in Australia

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Novel Diagnostic Test for Diabetic Retinopathy

Development of methodology to determine oxygen and hydrogen content in GaN and its application to problems of doping and compensation.

Elemental analysis of layers in banded opals

Encapsulation of Enzymes and Bacteria in Sol-Gel Matrices

Environmental impact assessment of coastal pollution using macroalgae gamete condition

Maintaining frog habitats: Red-crowned Toadlet pdeudophryne australis and the Giant Burrowing Frog Heleioporus australiacus

Photonic Crystals and Microstructural Optical Fibres for Optical Device Applications

Probabilistic Modelling of Load and Deterioration Processes in Structural Reliability

Risk Measurement for Large Diversified Nonlinear Portfolios

Spider neurotoxins: charaterisation, antivenom efficacy and production of monoclonal antibodies

The role of heat-shock protein 70 in parasite virulence

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A Study of Moisture Transport between Fresh Mortar and Bricks During Masonry Construction and Curing

A genetically engineered immunotoxin incorporating a cytolytic peptide from ant venom

A high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system for the isolation and characterisation of novel insecticidal and prokineticin-like peptides from Australian spider venoms

A new Class of Credit Risk Models

A system for location of insulation faults in high voltage transformers

Experimental designs used in choice modelling

Ion implantation of polymers for metallisation

Mechanisms underlying stomatal responses to vapour pressure deficit - an experimental and modelling approach

Microcharacterisation of charge trapping in materials with wide band gaps

Multi-proxy cyclicity in Holocene high-stand estuarine sediments of temperate eastern Australia

Multilayer ultra-thin films for use as mirrors for hard X-rays

Non-rigid local registraton of three-dimensional medical images

Physiological Adaptations to Migration in Australian Birds

Production of novel plant cultivars via gene cosuppression

Relationship between pesticides in passive samplers to riverwater concentrations and macroinvertebrate populations

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Ability of Aeromonas media to act as a probiotic by preventing death and infection in shellfish and fish.

Advanced daylighting in buildings

Asset price dynamics under stochastic volatility

Condition, survival and recruitment of reef fishes

In situ measurements of the tropical atmosphere with Aerosonde

Interaction of phosphorus species with aluminium species in soils - new evidence from nuclear magnetic resonance

Mind Switch hands free technology: a better life for the disabled

Production and characterisation of recombinant antigens of eimeria

Stock differentiation and reproduction of freshwater eels in NSW

Textile fibres and crime investigation

Use of novel retroviral vectors for transduction of primary hepatocytes with the human insulin gene

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Biokinetics of Cu in rainbowfish in relation to its tolerance to copper using Cu-64 and Cu-67

Characterisation of Australian Precious Opals by SIMS

Characterisation of electrophysiological properties of the microsurgical repaired peripheral nerves

Macromolecular organic Bayer poisons

Production and characterisation of recombinant antigens of Eimeria and their potential use in a maternally-delivered vaccine against poultry coccidiosis

Relationships between populations of selected macroinvertebrates and pesticides in the Namoi River

Structure and function of P-glycoprotein

Use of NMR as a petrophysical tool

Use of as novel retroviral vector for transduction of primary hepatocytes with human insulin gene.

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Adhesion improvement of metallised polymers for implantable electrode applications

An investigation into the sources and propagation of errors in analytical Chemistry

Development of christmas bush as a cut-flower crop for both export and domestic markets

Increasing longevity of hydroxyapatite coatings for orthopaedic and dental implants

Modulation of antiarhythmic drug action by ischaemia and tachycardia

Pharmacological characterisation of mammalian and insect-selective neurotoxins isolated from the venom of Australian scorpions

Pleistocene- Recent palaeoclimatic history of Myall Lake, NSW

Retention of Cs and Sr in cemented zeolites

Seagrass diuron exposure

Surface characterisation of organic membranes on gold substrates

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

A maternally delivered vaccine against coccidiosis in broiler chickens

Defect Healing by Hot Isostatic Pressing in Pressure Diecast Aluminium Valve Housing for Safety Critical Automobile Applications

Development of a 57Ni / 57Co Generator for Imaging

Fish otoliths as archival monitors of metal pollution

Improving Cs and Sr retention in cemented waste forms

Metallisation of polymers assisted by ion implanation

New macrocyclic ligands for radiolanthanides

Pleistocene-Recent stratigraphy and palaeoclimatology of the Myall Lakes system, eastern New South Wales

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Characteristics and central pathways of somatosympathetic reflexes during acupuncture stimulation

Metallisation of polymers assisted by ion implantation

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

The development and extensive evaluation of expert system maintenance tools applied to Ion Chromatography

Selected Peer-Assessed Projects

Life-span prediction of cement-based construction materials

Life-span prediction of cement-based construction materials