CURRENT STUDENT PROJECTS
Student Project
Artificial Intelligence-Based Medical Data Mining
Chief supervisor
Professor Alistair Forrest
Project suitable for
PhD
Student Project
Identifying novel intercellular signalling pathways to enhance cancer immunotherapy efficacy
Student Project
Identifying novel intercellular signalling pathways to enhance cancer immunotherapy efficacy
Project Outline
Objective: To employ established bioinformatic pipelines in investigating altered pathways within the tumour microenvironment of patients exhibiting differential responses to immunotherapy.
Chief supervisor
Professor Alistair Forrest
Project suitable for
PhD
Student Project
Modelling combinatorial effects of experimental perturbations at single-cell resolution
Chief supervisor
Professor Alistair Forrest
Project suitable for
PhD
Student Project
Evaluating the collective probability of ligand-receptor interactions with distinct spatial distributions
Chief supervisor
Professor Alistair Forrest
Project suitable for
Honours, Masters, PhD
Essential qualifications
Computer science/information technology
Student Project
Long non-coding RNAs and novel transcripts expressed in single cell and spatialtranscriptomic cancer datasets
Student Project
Long non-coding RNAs and novel transcripts expressed in single cell and spatialtranscriptomic cancer datasets
Project Outline
Objective: Mine existing single cell and spatial cancer transcriptome datasets for transcription start sites associated with long non-coding RNAs and other novel transcripts.
Chief supervisor
Professor Alistair Forrest
Project suitable for
Honours, Masters, PhD
Essential qualifications
Computer science/information technology
Student Project
General call – Systems Biology, genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics
Student Project
General call – Systems Biology, genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics
Project Outline
Individuals interested in next generation sequencing, bioinformatics, transcriptomics, medical genomics and systems biology are welcome to contact me ([email protected]). Please provide a cover letter explaining why you would like to join the team and if appropriate your prospects for obtaining a scholarship. Projects will be tailored after discussions of ongoing work and interests of the candidates. PhD students are expected to apply for scholarships. Excellent candidates may be funded directly by the lab.
General areas include –
Basic research:
Basic research:
- Transcript discovery
- Non-coding RNAs
- Primary cell biology
- Mammalian transcriptional networks and evolution of multicellularity
- Building transcriptional regulatory network models (bioinformatics and NGS data)
Applied:
- Comparing broken networks in cancer
- Cancer Biomarkers
- Tissue specificity of drug targets
- Disease gene prioritization
Contact
Professor Alistair Forrest – [email protected]
Chief supervisor
Professor Alistair Forrest
Project suitable for
Honours, MsC, PhD
Start date
continually open
