Student Projects
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MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry to validate novel transgenic mouse models lacking melanocortin peptide hormones
Supervisors: A/P Kathy Mountjoy and Dr Gus Grey, Department of Physiology, SMS, FMHS Collaborator: Dr Joel Elmquist, Centre for Hypothalamic Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Seeking: BSc (Hons), BBiomed Hons, Masters and PhD students...
Understanding Equine Cushing’s Disease to improve horse and human health
IntroductionEquine Cushing’s Disease, also known as pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), is a common endocrine disease in horses. The underlying cause involves damage to the brain pathway that regulates melanocortin hormones produced from...
Metabolite Quantification by GCMS
Introduction Untargeted metabolite profiling has been used extensively to analyse differences in the metabolism of all sorts of experimental biological samples. However, this powerful and well-established technique is also complex, time-consuming and involves the...
MALDI imaging of the eye
Introduction Lens cataract is the most prevalent form of blindness in the world, and is due to alterations in the concentration of lens metabolites in specific lens regions, which leads to subsequent protein modifications and lens opacification. Some of these...