Research Leadership

The Currie group is curious about the biological mechanisms of the zebrafish, a fresh water fish that is native to South East Asia.

The del Monte-Nieto group is interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms and developmental processes orchestrating normal heart development in embryos and the translation of this knowledge to better understand congenital and adult heart disease, and cardiac regeneration. 

The Marcelle Group is interested in understanding how functional skeletal muscle arises from a group of unspecialised mesodermal cells.

The McGlinn Group is focused on elucidating novel gene networks that drive growth and identity in the early embryo.

The Ramialison group is studying causes of congenital heart disease. They are a multidisciplinary team of computational and molecular biologists who specialise in genomics.

The Lieschke group studies the haemopoietic system (blood production) and leukocytes (white blood cells).

The Martino group combines research in immunology, stem cells, and bioengineering, in order to understand the mechanisms governing tissue repair and regeneration. Ultimately, we aim at engineering novel regenerative strategies using bioengineering approaches.

The Bourne group have garnered an international reputation for being at the forefront of visual neuroscience with a particular emphasis on development, plasticity and repair following injury.

The Kaslin group is interested in cellular plasticity in the brain and spinal cord. In particular, the group studies how the neural system can repair itself by mobilising stem cells and how researchers can improve this process.

The Merson group studies the cellular and molecular interactions between neurons and myelin-forming oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system.

The Nillegoda group is probing attractive new proteostasis-based directions for future therapeutic interventions that could slow neurodegeneration and disease progression in a number of disorders including Alzheimer’s disease by reversing protein aggregation and/or the associated cytotoxicities in the affected human cell/tissue types.

The Janovjak group is exploring synthetic principles to identify new approaches for tissue regeneration.

The Roselló-Díez group uses animal models to study the local and systemic mechanisms that orchestrate organ growth and repair in vertebrates.

The primary research aim of the Hobbs group is to identify and define the critical molecular mechanism underlying adult stem cells.

The Laslett group investigate the biology of human pluripotent stem cell lines, including embryonic stem cells (hESC) and human iPS cells.

The Nagy Group is focused on combining knowledge of developmental biology, stem cells and genetic engineering to create successful therapeutics for regenerative medicine applications.

The Nilsson Group is currently involved in a number of research projects that focus on understanding haemopoietic stem cells (HSC). Haemopoietic stem cells are responsible for the production of blood and immune cells.

The Polo group is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity and cell fate. It has a particular focus on pluripotency and the reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and other mature cell types.

The Zenker group seeks to understand how a cell’s structure and function is regulated by the continuous re-organization of the microtubule network - highly dynamic cytoskeletal filaments regulating fundamental processes including cell division, migration and differentiation.