Dr April Reside
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Research Field: Ecology & Conservation Biology What will it take to save all of Australia’s animals and plants? Dr April Reside’s research brings together information on species, particularly those threatened with extinction, and their threats and required corresponding actions. By examining the costs and benefits of different actions that address these threats,…
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Dr Johanna Nalau
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY Research Field: Climate Adaptation Dr Nalau is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow leading an Australian first project on the development and feasibility of climate adaptation heuristics. The project examines the commonly used rules of thumb in how we should adapt to the impacts of climate change globally and specifically in Australia and…
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Dr Andreas Kupz
JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY Research Field: Microbiology & Immunology Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death globally, claiming approximately 1.5 million lives annually. Treatment of TB is very expensive, takes several months, and many strains of the bacteria have already become resistant to the drugs used to treat TB. The only licensed TB vaccine,…
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A/Prof Sumaira Hasnain
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Research Field: Immunology A/Professor Sumaira Hasnain graduated with her PhD in December 2010 from The University of Manchester. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland with a team of 9 researchers. Imbalance of protein production and stress is a feature of many common inflammatory diseases, like…
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Dr Fernando Guimaraes
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Research Field: Immunology Understanding why the immune system fails to fight diseases like cancer is at the heart of Dr Guimaraes’ research. Through uncovering some of the key mechanisms that disease cells use to hijack the killing action of a subset of our immune system – Natural Killer (NK) cells, Dr Guimaraes has…
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A/Prof Celine Frere
UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST Research Field: Evolutionary Biology My research helps threatened and protected native Australian animals impacted by environmental change. For example, I co-founded Detection Dogs for Conservation at USC. Our team gives rescue dogs a job by using them to ‘sniff-out’ koalas and other hard-to-find animals. We train them to locate live…
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Dr Susanna Cramb
QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Research Field: Disease Epidemiology and Data Modelling Most diseases impact some people more than others. When these impacts follow divisions based on income, race, or geography, they are unjust (“health inequities”). Dr Cramb uses statistics to identify and understand health inequities, so they can be addressed. She leads a team of…
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Dr Peter Cowman
JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY Research Field: Evolutionary Biology & Phylogenetics Coral reefs are home to over 30% of all marine fishes despite only accounting for less than 0.1% of the world’s ocean. The centre of coral reef fish biodiversity is found in the Indo- Australian Archipelago – the ‘bullseye’ of a steep gradient in species richness…
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Dr Laura Bray
QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Research Field: Biotechnology We know that approximately 95% of new drugs that test positive during lab trials and animal testing will fail during clinical trials, creating a bottleneck of ineffective drugs. This is because animals and humans are biologically different. Traditional methods for cancer research use human cells grown on a…
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Dr Michele Barnes
JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY Research Field: Social Networks and Environmental Impacts You may have heard the saying “what you know is who you know”. The underlying notion is that social networks matter. The relationships we have with others influence our exposure to ideas, information, and resources. They also influence our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Dr. Barnes’s…
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