Honours Degree Program

Undertaking your Honours Degree Program at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Over the last few years, the honours program at the ACBD has been conducted under the umbrella of several Monash University Departments; Immunology, Anatomy, and Biochemistry. The program is heavily devoted to the student’s research project, and thereby emphasizes the importance of experimental design, data collection and analysis, literature reviews and trouble shooting.
  
       2009 Projects in detail
       Laboratory Descriptions
       Supervisors Biography      

How to apply for Honours program at ACBD: 

 Applications are done centrally through Monash University.  Prospective applicants should complete an application form, which can be downloaded or obtained from the faculty office. 

     Further information and download application form: BMS or Science Honours
                                               

AMREP Honours Scholarships – apply for these $6,000 scholarships to study at AMREP. 

Student Information Evening at ACBD 2008

In order to provide prospective students, and the wider community, with a better   understanding of what we do at the ACBD, we have participated in several information sessions as well as hosting our own information nights.

The information evening 2008 was very successful with 85 students participating.  A lot of  interest was generated by these students to learn more about blood diseases and haematology. 

    Some of the comments from the students at the Student Information Evening 2008

• Very friendly staff, awesome facilities, part of an impressive network of opportunities.
• State of the art equipment in labs.
• The presentation was very informative.
• Everything exceeded my expectations!

Completed honours students at ACBD

The ACBD has supported a large number of honours students in the past. We congratulate the following students who successfully completed their honours year with us.

2008

      Amanda Au
             Project Title: Investigation into the effects of stroke-related therapeutic agents and soluble blood-born agents on neuronal injury.
             Supervisors: A/Prof. Robert Medcalf and Dr. Andre Samson

      Bernadine Lu
             Project Title: Investigation of the plasmin and antiplasmin interaction by mutagenesis of the antiplasmin C-terminus.
             Supervisors: A/Prof. Paul Coughlin and Dr. Anita Horvath

      Cindy Lin
             Project Title: The role of CD45 in myeloma cell interactions with bone marrow stromal cells and drug sensitivities.
             Supervisors: A/Prof. Andrew Spencer and Dr. Tiffany Khong

      Gabrielle Van der Kraan
              Project Title: The role of GPIb-V-IX in the negative regulation of integrin aIIbb 3 adhesive function.
              Supervisor: Dr. Sue Cranmer

      Hannah Lee
              Project Title: Defining the role of thromb-induced platelet activation in thrombosis.
              Supervisor: Dr. Justin Hamilton

      Katrina Ashworth
              Project Title: The interaction of GPIb-alpha and filamin A in platelet adhesion and thrombus formation
              Supervisor: Dr. Sue Cranmer

      Linda Nguyen
              Project Title: The production and characterisation of primary human megakaryocytes.
              Supervisor: Dr. Justin Hamilton

      My Hua
              Project Title: Live and let die - regulation of platelet reactivity.
              Supervisor: Dr. Simone Schoenwaelder and Prof. Shaun Jackson

2007

      Jessica Mountford
              Project Title: Establishment of a System for Examining Class II Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Function in Murine Megakaryocytes
              Supervisor: Dr. Justin Hamilton

      Patrick Leung
              Project Title: Investigation of the Functional Interplay between Platelets and Neutrophils
              Supervisors: Prof. Shaun Jackson and Dr.Yuping Yuan

      Rachael Borg
              Project Title: Investigation into the interaction between tissue-type plasminogen activator and injured neuronal cells
              Supervisor: Associate Prof. Robert Medcalf

2006

      Bree Latta
              Project Title: Mechanisms by which Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator (t-PA) Promotes Injury of Human Brain Endothelial Cells'                
              Supervisor: Associate Prof. Robert Medcalf

      Rivka Lilian
              Project Title: Characterisation of GPVI-mediated signalling in platelets – Roles for PI3K p110b and Rap1b 
              Supervisors: Prof. Shaun Jackson and Dr. Pierre Mangin

2005

       Trifina Sofian
               Project Title: Mechanism of glycosaminoglycan activation of murine antichymotrypsin 
               Supervisors: Assoc Prof. Paul Coughlin and Dr. Anita Horvath

       Joanna Lim
               Project Title: Investigation of a role for phosphoinositide 3-kinase in thrombin-mediated platelet signallign and function
               Supervisors: Dr. Simone Schoenwaelder and Prof. Shaun Jackson