PhD/Honours

There are currently PhD and Honours positions on offer.

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If you are interested in a PhD or Honours opportunity and would like to speak to a lab head, please get in contact ciidir@deakin.edu.au and we can assist you.

If you have a particular project in mind that you feel would fit within CIIDIR’s research pillars, we would love to hear it.

PhD top-up Scholarship in developing advanced in vitro Lung models of porcine for zoonotic diseases.

The opportunity:

The PhD candidate will be working in the Advanced ex vivo Biosystems laboratory at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP), CSIRO based at Geelong, Victoria. The candidate will be working on establishment of porcine in vitro lung model system using piglet primary lung tissue. The work involves the establishment and characterization of the in vitro model using flowcytometry and/or confocal microscopy and gene expression analysis. The student will then use this model to translate into more advanced organ-on-a-chip system which permits the co-culture of immune cells. The student will finally use this model to understand the host-pathogen interactions in the later part of the PhD.The PhD candidate will gain in-depth expertise in developing advanced in vitro lung models for swine through hands-on training. In collaboration with the Advanced Ex Vivo Biosystems laboratory and other researchers from ACDP, the candidate will leverage the latest innovations in 3D tissue culture and microfluidic technologies.

Location:

Geelong, VIC (Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness)

Contact:

For more information on the research project please contact Dr Chia-Chi Chien on +61 (0)3 5227 5066 or email to  Chia-Chi.Chien@csiro.au

Scholarship:  

Top-Up Scholarship of $10,000 per annum, plus a learning and development budget of $5,000 over the term of the studentship

Eligibility 

The student must be enrolled at an Australian university;

• hold an appropriate visa to study in Australia (if international);
• be no further than one year (FTE) into a PhD candidature;
• hold a primary scholarship; for example, a Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship or other primary scholarship of similar value;
• not be in receipt of any other Top-Up Scholarship;
• be available to commence with CSIRO prior to 3^rd of January, 2025