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 |