The University of Sydney Bridging Support Grants 2007

Listed below are the details of successful University of Sydney Bridging Support Grants for 2007. If you have any queries please contact the research Office on 02 9351 4469 or by e-mail:

Name Host Faculty Tentative title of project Combined DVC-R + ST Allocation
Professor John Gero Architecture Situated Design Optimization: Re-Engineering Optimization in Design by Incorporating Experience $70,000
Dr John Clark Arts The Asian Modern $40,000
Associate Professor Duncan Ivison Arts The uneasy alliance between democracy and justice $40,000
Dr Kate Lilley Arts Royalist women's writing and social authorship 1640-1670 $15,000
Professor James Martin Arts Enacting Reconciliation: neotiating meaning in youth justic conferencing $40,000
Dr Jane Simpson Arts Machine-useable  grammar and lexicon for Indonesian $40,000
Dr Vanessa Smith Arts Emotional Encounters: contact, colonialism and the state of feeling $40,000
Dr Nicholas Smith Arts Vagueness and Degrees of Truth $40,000
Professor Elizabeth Fjelda Martin Dentistry Diagnostic indicators for the conservative therapy of dentinal caries. $50,000
Professor Ian Marsh  Economics & Business Australia's interest group/social movement system: its changing scope, representational effectiveness and roles in policy making $40,000
Dr Murali Agastya Economics & Business A game theoretic approach to classification in adversarial environments $15,000
Dr  Debajyoti  Chakrabarty Economics & Business Determininants of income and walth inequality $15,000
Professor Wing Lee Education and Social Work Asian perspectives on citizenship and citizenship education $40,000
Dr Michael Moody Electron Microscope Unit Atom Probe Tomography and Computer Simulation of Clustering Phenomena $70,000
Dr Honglin An Engineering Nonlinear silicate glasses and optical waveguides with exceptionally stable second order nonlinearity for optical communications $15,000
Associate Professor Geoff Barton Engineering Extruder Die Design: The Missing-Link in the Large-Scale Production of Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres $70,000
Professor Hans Coster Engineering Dielectrophoretic assisted agitation, catalysis and biological sequestering $15,000
Associate Professor Fariba Dehghani Engineering A rapid-rotation dense gas precipitation process for the production of pharmaceutical fine powders $70,000
Dr Jahan Hassan Engineering Co-operative access control in micro-provider wireless networks $35,000
Dr Dong Jeng Engineering Three-dimensional models for wave-induced liquefaction around the head of a breakwater $70,000
Professor Vojin Oklobdzija Engineering Development of bio-sensors and bio-sensing in a secure network incorporating local/remote data processing $70,000
Dr Howard See Engineering Modelling the flow of flexible fibre suspensions $15,000
Dr Hala Zreiqat Engineering Micro-engineered biomaterials for improved orthopedic devices and scaffolds $70,000
Professor Anita Bundy Health Sciences Popping the Bubblewrap: Unleashing the Power of Play $15,000
Professor Ronald McCallum Law Workplace Death and Injury: Re-imagining Deterrence and Prosecution $40,000
Dr Isabel  Karpin Law Regulating Reproductive Decision-Making in Australia and the Impact of Genetic Technologies $15,000
Dr Stephen  Alexander Medicine Kidney transplantation; improving outcomes $50,000
Dr Charles Allan Medicine Steroidal regulation of meiosis $50,000
Professor David Allen Medicine Mechanisms of muscle damage in the mdx mouse $50,000
Professor Craig  Anderson Medicine Interact: a randomised trial of intensive blood pressure lowering in acute intracerebral haemorrhage $50,000
Professor Max Bennett Medicine Retinal neuronal - glial cell networks $50,000
Professor David Cook Medicine The impact of avian influenza virus on respiratory epithelium $50,000
Associate Professor Mark Gillies Medicine Proteomic analysis of a library of human vitreous samples to study abnormal protein profiles in eyes with diabetic retinopathy $50,000
Professor Ron Grunstein Medicine The effectiveness of a primary care disease detection and management program in the identification and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea  $50,000
Dr Peter Gunning Medicine The role of tropomyosins at the postsynaptic site in neurons and muscle $15,000
Dr Brett Hambly Medicine The phosphopeptidome and kinase signalling during ischemia/reperfusion injury $50,000
Dr Anthony Harris Medicine Changes in Connectivity with alteration in clinical state in Schizophrenia $50,000
Associate Professor Cheryl Jones Medicine Investigating the fate of activated antiviral T cell effectors in the newborn $50,000
Associate Professor Cheryl Jones Medicine Factors that determine the induction of a protective antiviral innate immune response in the newborn $50,000
Dr Marina  Kennerson Medicine Finding the gene mutations causing X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy $50,000
Associate Professor Chris Little Medicine Metalloproteinase activation in cartilage remodeling $50,000
Dr Peter Liu Medicine Metabolic and Psychomotor changes after Continuous Positive Airway Pressure treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea $50,000
Dr Sarah Sally Lord Medicine Methods and appraisal of therapeutic impact studies for new diagnostic tests - development of guidelines $50,000
Associate Professor Wieland Meyer Medicine Is there a linkage between genotype and clinical phenotype of pathogenic fungi ? - Global MLST/MLMT typing of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex as a model system.  $50,000
Professor Garth Nicholson Medicine Identifying novel genes involved in motor neuron degeneration $50,000
Associate Professor Philip O'Connell Medicine A pre-clinical surgical model for clinical islet transplantation $50,000
Dr Geraldine O'Neill Medicine Cytoskeletal Regulation of Adhesion Structure and Migration $50,000
Professor Paul Pilowsky Medicine How do short episodes of hypoxia cause long lasting increases in sympathetic nerve activity $50,000
Dr Carolyn  Scott Medicine The role of the M6P/IGFII receptor in regulating
cellular function.
$50,000
Professor Colin Sullivan Medicine A study of the consequences of sleep disordered breathing in late pregnancy $50,000
Dr Stuart Thomas Medicine Circumvenous ablation for treatment of atrial fibrillation $50,000
Professor Roger Truscott Medicine The molecular basis of age-related nuclear cataract $50,000
Dr Karen Webb Medicine Metabolic syndrome, diet and obstructive sleep apnoea at age 10 years: predictive models from a birth cohort $50,000
Dr Colin Duke Pharmacy Gypenosides as novel anti-atherosclerotic agents through modulation of the LXR signal transduction pathway. $50,000
Dr  Stephen Bartlett Science Quantum-enhanced reference systems $70,000
Dr Bruce Burns Science How streaks of events bias people's decisions $70,000
Dr Rachel Codd Science Molecular Engineering of Industrial Biocatalysts that Function in the Cold: Redox-Active Metalloproteins from Antarctic Bacteria $15,000
Dr Tom Ferenci Science Mutations and divergence in bacterial evolution $15,000
Dr Gregory Giles Science The design of redox catalysts as anti-cancer agents $70,000
Dr Andrew Holmes Science An integron model for evolution of genetic networks in bacteria $15,000
Professor Richard Hunstead Science Black holes and early galaxy formation $70,000
Associate Professor Brian James Science Dust particles in complex plasmas: dynamic manipulation and pattern transfer to solid surfaces $15,000
Dr Katrina Jolliffe Science Novel receptors for selective recognition of biologically important anions $70,000
Dr Tat-Kun Kwok Science An advanced apparatus and method to determine secondary electron emission coefficient of an insulator and a conductor $70,000
Dr Manfred Lenzen Science A dynamic environmental futures framework to develop long-term strategies for a sustainable Australia $70,000
Dr Andrew Mathas Science Morita equivalences for cyclotomic algebras $70,000
Professor David McKenzie Science Optical detection technologies for protein attachment $15,000
Dr David Moss Science Semiconductor Nonlinear Optical Devices $35,000
Associate Professor Benjamin Oldroyd Science Molecular analysis of mating time in honey bee $70,000
Professor Peter Reeves Science Genetic basis of structural diversity in escherichia coli capsules $70,000
Dr Peter Rutledge Science Biologically Inspired Catalysts for Nitrile Hydration: New Tools for Synthesis and Bioremediation $70,000
Professor Stephen Simpson Science Drosophila Nutrition $70,000
Dr Pall Thordarson Science Applications of self-assembled materials $70,000
Dr Peter Turner Science Advanced remote access to self describing scientific instruments and their data $70,000
Professor Gregory Warr Science Nanostructural materials by self-asembly of novel polymerisable surfactants $15,000
Dr Martin Wechselberger Science Multiple Time Scales Analysis of Physiological Rhythms $70,000
Dr Kalina Yacef Science Glass box data-mining to support scalable learner-centred systems $15,000