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BIOM03 - Using advanced data analytics to identify longitudinal trends and personalised norms in digital health data
Today's wearable devices collect a wealth of detailed information about personal health, wellbeing and performance. Often the manufacturers of such devices provide generalised advice about how to action such data. However, this advice is typically based on population norms. In reality, not all people fall within these population norms. For this reason, the advice on how to action personal data on health, wellbeing and performance can be misleading for users of wearable devices.
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- Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
CIIC01 - Detecting cryptic transmission of plasmids
Plasmids are small, often circular pieces of DNA that are commonly found in bacteria. They are a primary vehicle of horizontal gene transfer (the passing of DNA between two different bacteria) and facilitate the sharing of important genes in bacterial communities (such as those for antimicrobial resistance and virulence).Plasmid outbreaks (i.e. the same plasmid transferring between multiple bacteria) have been increasingly identified using whole genome sequencing. However, as plasmids often carry highly repetitive genetic elements, they are usually incompletely assembled …
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- Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
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Centre for Immunology and Infection Control
CIIC03 - Understanding Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) in Queensland
Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative opportunistic bacterial pathogen that is responsible for a range of hospital-acquired infections, including ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), skin/soft tissue infections, and sepsis. In 2017 it was listed as a “CRITICAL” priority 1 pathogen by the World Health Organization (WHO) in their list of the 12 bacterial families that pose the greatest threat to human health. Not only is A. baumannii inherently resistant to disinfectants and antiseptics, but it also has a large repertoire of resistance to …
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- Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
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Centre for Immunology and Infection Control
QIMR01 - Improving diagnostic processes for regulatory region variants
Hereditary disease diagnosis has improved dramatically in recent times due to improvements in genomic sequencing technology. The majority of work however has centered on the diagnosis of gene variants in the protein coding region of the genome. The non-coding region of the genome remains an unexplored and underdiagnosed area. In particular, variants in regulatory regions have a high likelihood of impacting gene function and causing disease, but few have sufficient available information to determine if they cause disease in a …
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- Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
Representation learning for anti-microbial resistance
This project is about using neural network models help us understand Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR), a phenomenon in which bacteria adapt to reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics, usually through a process known as Lateral or Horizontal Gene Transfer - where genes are included in the organism from other sources.Our focus will be on learning compact vector representations of biological sequences known to be associated with AMR genes. By encoding DNA sequences in this way we can more rapidly identify AMR genes …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
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- Centre for Data Science
Investigation of genetic factors that contribute to concussion and its outcomes
The health outcomes from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and concussion depend on the nature of the injury, but response also varies greatly between individuals, suggesting that genetic factors may play a role. In particular, due to effects of head trauma on balances of ions, neurotransmitters and energy use in the brain, there is suggestion that variation in the genes that encode proteins involved in these pathways, e.g. ion channels, may affect the risk of, as well as response to a …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
Information retrieval and coding methods for large scale bioinformatics
Advances in sequencing technologies over the past two decades have led to an explosion in the availability of genomic sequence data and an increasingly urgent need for scalable clustering and search facilities. One approach is to encode sequences as binary vectors in a high-dimensional space, simplifying the comparison and allowing it to be computed very rapidly using bit-level operations.Coupled with these ideas is the need to provide clustering methods and efficient indexing and lookup in response to search queries. One …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
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- Centre for Data Science
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