SoMS Honours

Potential Projects » Metabolism & Energy

Academic	Project Title
Dr Yati Boutcher Exercise Physiology, SoMS	The effect of acute exercise on vascular function following a fat meal
Dr Yati Boutcher Exercise Physiology, SoMS	The effect of high-intensity intermittent exercise on autonomic, cardiovascular, and natriuretic response in metabolic syndrome individuals
Dr Yati Boutcher Exercise Physiology, SoMS	Acute effects of a single bout of aerobic exercise on vascular function in metabolic syndrome individuals
Prof Sally Dunwoodie & Dr Gavin Chapman Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute	Genetics, Embryology, Imaging, Metabolomics: Explore how NAD deficiency causes birth defects and how niacin/vitamin B3 supplementation prevents deficiency and defects
Prof Sally Dunwoodie & Dr Hartmut Cuny Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute	Genetics, Gene-Environment Interaction and Embryology: NAD Deficiency, Congenital Malformation and Vitamin B3 Supplementation
Prof Emad El-Omar & Dr Xiaotao Jiang Microbiome Research Centre, St George and Sutherland Clinical School	The healthy optimal Australian microbiome (HOAM) study
Dr Daniel Hesselson Garvan Institute	How does diabetes promote neurodegeneration?
Dr Chris Maloney, Dr Virginie Lecomte & Prof Margaret Morris Environmental Determinants of Obesity Group, SoMS	Can folate supplementation reduce the impact of paternal obesity?
Dr Kwok Leung Ong & Dr Ben Wu Lipid Research Group, SoMS	Role of fibroblast growth factor 21 in pregnancy-induced insulin resistance
Prof Mike Rogers & Dr Marcia Munoz Garvan Institute	The role of the mevalonate-cholesterol pathway in childhood inflammatory disease
Prof Kerry-Anne Rye Lipid Research Group, SoMS	Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Dr Yanchuan Shi Garvan Institute	Investigating how neuropeptide Y (NPY)-Y1 receptor signalling controls insulin secretion in pancreatic islets in obesity and diabetes
Dr Yanchuan Shi Garvan Institute	Targeting neuropeptide Y (NPY) signalling in adipose tissue to promotor thermogenesis and weight loss
Dr Yanchuan Shi Garvan Institute	Coordinated control of appetite and insulin release by the gut-hormone PYY and GLP1 in obese and type 2 diabetes
Dr Greg Smith Department of Pharmacology, SoMS	Glucose regulation of cellular signalling events in the liver
Dr Greg Smith Department of Pharmacology, SoMS	Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signalling in the liver
Prof Roland Stocker Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute	New ways to regulate cellular and mitochondrial content of coenzyme Q as a potential treatment of insulin resistance, diabetes and atherosclerosis
Dr Fatiha Tabet & Dr Kwok Leung Ong Lipid Research Group, SoMS	Relationship of HDL-associated microRNAs with early stage cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes
A/Prof Nigel Turner Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Group, SoMS	Investigating the role of a novel receptor protein in mediating the beneficial metabolic effects of medium chain fatty acids
A/Prof Nigel Turner Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Group, SoMS	Targeting of lipid synthesis pathways to improve glucose metabolism in obesity
A/Prof Alexander Viardot & Prof Lesley Campbell Garvan Institute	Mechanisms of a novel therapeutic agent on appetite, weight, gastric emptying and cognition in the genetic obesity disorder Prader Willi syndrome
Dr Lindsay Wu & Prof David Sinclair Molecular Biology of Ageing, SoMS	Targeting cellular senescence to treat ageing and the side effects of common drugs
Dr Lindsay Wu & Prof David Sinclair Molecular Biology of Ageing, SoMS	Treating cancer by reversing metabolic aging
Dr Lindsay Wu & Prof David Sinclair Molecular Biology of Ageing, SoMS	Near infrared light therapy as an exercise mimetic for inducing mitochondrial stress and extending lifespan
A/Prof Amany Zekry St George and Sutherland Clinical School	Role of the gut micro biome in liver inflammation and liver cancer in obesity