The University of Sydney Bridging Support Grants 2006



Listed below are the details of successful University of Sydney Bridging Support Grants for 2006. If you have any queries please contact the Research Office via email:

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Name
Host College
Host Faculty
Host Dept/School
Title of project
R&I Support
Dr Christopher Hilliard CHASS Arts Philosophical & Historical Inquiry The circulation of literature in Britain and the Empire $20,000
Associate Professor Judith Keene CHASS Arts Philosophical & Historical Inquiry Traitors in forgotten wars: Korea $11,000
Dr Isabel Karpin CHASS Law   Comparative legal and ethical considerations in regulating preimplantation genetic diagnosis $23,000

College of Health Sciences

Name
Host College
Host Faculty
Host Dept/School
Title of project
R&I Support
Dr Fjelda Martin CHS Dentistry Westmead Centre for Oral health Diagnostic indicators for the conservative therapy of dentinal caries $23,000
Associate Professor Cherry Russell CHS Health Sciences Behavioural & Community Health Sciences What do older women and men want? A qualitative exploration of ageing, gender and quality of life $23,000
Professor Anita Bundy CHS Health Sciences Occupation and Leisure Science Popping the Bubble Wrap: Unleashing the Power of Play $23,000
Dr Charles Allan CHS Medicine Central Clinical School Steroidal regulation of meiotic development $50,000
Dr Christopher Young CHS Medicine Central Clinical School Surgery versus stent insertion for the management of non-curable large bowel obstruction $23,000
Dr Louise Baur CHS Medicine Childrens Hospital at Westmead Child and adolescent predictors of vascular structure and function in 16/17 year olds: the Nepean Cohort Study $23,000
Dr Barbara Rose CHS Medicine Infectious Diseases and Immunology An integrated transriptomics and proteomics approach to the characterisation of epidemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa $23,000
Professor David Cook CHS Medicine Medical Sciences Labelling of epithelial sodium channels $23,000
Dr William Phillips CHS Medicine Medical Sciences Rapsyn controls acetylcholine receptor turnover and packing density in the post-synaptic membrane during development $23,000
Dr Dario Protti CHS Medicine Medical Sciences Function of calcium wave transmission in retinal glial cell networks $23,000
Dr Robert Baxter CHS Medicine Northern Clinical School Molecular distribution of IGFBP-3 and IGFBP-5 complexes during pregnancy $23,000
Professor Stephen Hunyor CHS Medicine Northern Clinical School Role of microcirculatory blood flow and energetics in regional/ global function after stem cell therapy in post-MI sheep. $23,000
Associate Professor Anastasia Mihailidou CHS Medicine Northern Clinical School Antagonist and agonist effects of glucocorticoids on cardiovascular mineralocorticoid receptors $23,000
Dr Jagdeep Nanchahal/Dr Chris Jackson CHS Medicine Northern Clinical School The mechanism of action and control of MT1-MMP during tendon invasion by tenosynovium in rheumatoid arthritis $23,000
Associate Professor Hak-kim Chan CHS Pharmacy   CFD-DEM Simulation of Powder Dispersion in Pharmaceutical Aerosol Inhalers $23,000
Dr Mary Collins CHS Pharmacy   GABA antagonists for myopia control; pharmacology and retinal mechanisms $23,000

College of Science and Technology

Name
Host College
Host Faculty
Host Dept/School
Title of project
R&I Support
Dr Kirsty Beilharz CST Architecture   A model of gestural interaction for sonification $36,300
Professor Allan Snyder CST Centre for the Mind   Scalability of Thinking Systems $26,300
Dr Zongwen Liu CST Electron Microscope Unit   Temperature Measurement of the Catalytic Layer of Fuel Cells with Carbon Nanotube Nanothermometers $36,300
Professor Liyong Tong CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Bonded composite patch repair to thin-walled shell structures $26,300
Dr Andrew Harris CST Engineering Chemical Engineering Towards the large scale synthesis of carbon nanomaterials $26,300
Dr Dong Eng CST Engineering Civil Engineering Mechanism of wave-induced porewater pressure accumulation in a porous seabed $26,300
Associate Professor Abbas Jamalipour CST Engineering Electrical and Information Engineering Quality of service in heterogeneous next generation mobile networks $36,300
Professor Branka Vucetic CST Engineering Electrical and Information Engineering Power Efficient Signal Processing and Ultra Low-Power Implementation of Wireless Sensor Network Nodes $36,300
Dr Trevor Tolhurst CST Science Biological Sciences Influence of physical conditions on sediment ecology $26,300
Dr Rachel Codd CST Science Chemistry Redox enzymes from Antarctic organisms $26,300
Dr Dan Penny CST Science Geosciences Climate change and resource sustainability: ecological impacts of climate change on the wetlands of the lower Mekong River Basin $26,300
Dr Masahiro Takatsuka CST Science Information Technologies Multidimensional data visualization using geodesic self organizing map $26,300
Dr Kalina Yacef CST Science Information Technologies Glass box data-mining to support scalable learner-centred systems $36,300
Associate Professor Arthur Conigrave CST Science Molecular and Microbial Biosciences Molecular identification of the calcium receptor's sensing domains $36,300
Professor Merlin Crossley CST Science Molecular and Microbial Biosciences The regulation of adipocyte differentiation $26,300
Professor Anthony Weiss CST Science Molecular and Microbial Biosciences Biochemistry of tropoelastin and elastin: the molecular architecture of elastic fibre assembly $36,300
Dr Christian Grillet CST Science Physics Chalcogenide photonic crystal for nonlinear all- optical switch $26,300
Dr Zdenka Kuncic CST Science Physics Accreting Compact Objects as Extreme Physics Laboratories $26,300
Dr Serdar Kuyucak CST Science Physics Coarse-grain models of flexible ion channels $36,300
Dr Manfred Lenzen CST Science Physics Integrated long-term environmental modelling $33,300
Dr Dave Moss CST Science Physics Semiconducter phosonic crystal devices $26,300
Dr Maitreyee Roy CST Science Physics Novel Optical Coherence Techniques for 3D Biomedical Imaging and Surface Metrology $26,300
Dr Alex Samarian CST Science Physics Ionised granular gases: order transfer from gas to surface $33,300
Dr Bruce Burns CST Science Psychology Decision making based on streaks of events $36,300
Professor Phyllis Butow CST Science Psychology Influence on depression of life stress: Moderation by a 5-HTT gene polymorphism $26,300
Professor Phyllis Butow CST Science Psychology A strategy to improve informed consent: a randomised controlled trial in patients undergoing colonoscopy $13,300
Professor Ian Curthoys CST Science Psychology Physiological validation of clinical vestibular tests using sound $26,300
Dr Caroline Hunt CST Science Psychology The relationship between being bullied and anxiety and depressive symptoms in school children $36,300
Dr Vivienne Reeve CST Veterinary Science   Continuing studies of the regulation of UV-Induced skin damage by oestrogen $36,300