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Current projects | Student research projects

Projects in our lab are multidisciplinary and designed in discussions with our prospective students, to cater to their aspirations and research interests. It is our goal to train students in transferrable technologies that can be applied to a broad range of research questions.

If you are interested in joining the lab, please send your CV and a short description of your research interests and motivation to ana.traven@monash.edu. Prof Traven and senior members of the lab will be happy to discuss research projects with prospective students and provide advice.

Scholarship support is available to new PhD students. PhD postgraduate scholarships are available for Australian citizens or permanent residents with a H1 Honours degree. International students are advised to consult the Graduate studies web pages for information on entry requirements, tuition fee, and scholarships prior to application.

Interested postdoctoral fellows are invited to contact Ana Traven regarding potential projects that align with our core research.

Industry involvement and collaboration with engineers and material scientists

In collaboration with the CSIRO and the biotech company Hexima we have used our expertise in medical mycology to characterise antifungal compounds (Qu et al J Antimicrob Chemother 2016 and patent application # WO2016138558 A1; Locock et al Biomacromolecules 2013, Hayes et al Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2013).

Our current collaborations are in the space of antifungal biomaterials (with Dr. Bryan Coad, University of Adelaide; Coad et al J of Materials Chemistry B 2015, Coad et al PLoS Pathogens Pearl review 2016) and nano-particle interactions with pathogenic fungi (with Dr. Simon Corrie, Monash Engineering).

Selected funding groups

Research in the Traven lab has been supported by funding from the NHMRC and ARC.

Current grant funding:

  1. NHMRC Project Grant, An investigation into metabolic competition between host and pathogen in infection (CIA Traven A), 2019-2021
  2. NHMRC Project Grant, Control of host-pathogen interactions and fungal virulence by short-chain fatty acids (CIA Traven A, CIB Verma J) 2019-2021
  3. NHMRC Project Grant, An investigation into chromatin dynamics in host-pathogen interactions and fungal virulence (CIA Traven A, CIB Verma J) 2018-2020