The research includes the material synthesis, electron microscopy characterization and various diffraction and property measurement, with a potential to use national neutron/synchrotron facility.

This project will make further improvements to targeted gene mutagenesis and apply continuous molecular evolution to enhance specific binding of proteins to their respective targets.

We hope that these will give interesting catalytic properties as we will be able to incorporate coordinatively unsaturated metal ions next to a well-defined 3D binding pocket. This will be studied in collaboration with the Colebatch group.

This project will train and apply variational autoencoders to i) predict compatibility between protein sequence and structure, and ii) rationalize and predict function of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases from library sequence data.

In this project you will combine organic ligand synthesis with organometallic synthesis and reactivity to prepare bimetallic complexes and study their reactivity using a range of analytical techniques such as NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, cyclic voltammetry and X-ray crystallography.

This project aims to magnetically label proteins for new electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments to study a protein’s structure and dynamics at low concentrations and in-cell.

The aim of the project is to further develop this method by doing a systematic parameter variation study for the already printable materials and gaining a better understanding and control of the printing mechanism.

Our approach to more efficient synthesis uses domino reactions, which are spectacular events that assemble organic compounds quickly by forming many new covalent bonds in a single synthetic operation.

This project offers a unique opportunity to understand the world of 2D materials and how their properties can be tuned by their thickness and phase structure. It will enable you to gain valuable experience in materials synthesis and characterization, as well as cutting-edge research in the field of 2D materials.

This project will involve collaboration with the ANU Our Health in Our Hands Grand Challenge teams in the College of Engineering & Computer Science and the Research School of Physics.

This project will employ the tools of directed evolution to develop new enzymes for the analytical sample preparation and the synthesis of steroid glucuronide conjugates.

This project will develop powerful methods of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, coding and computational data analysis to study sulfate metabolites in mammalian systems with the goal of generating freely available tools that reveal the true complexity and roles of sulfate metabolites

This project will explore phage display (Nobel prize 2018) as the most robust approach and establish this technique at the Research School of Chemistry.

This project involves designing and developing new recognition motifs to assemble H-bonded frameworks, and using different interactions such as halogen bonding and chalcogen bonding to prepare frameworks.

This project will design, synthesise and evaluate a series of small molecules as new lead compounds against SARS-CoV-2. You will explore “warheads” such as alpha-ketoamides and Michael acceptors to inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 main protease by covalent modification of its active site.