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
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Name
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Host College
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Host Faculty
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Host Dept/School
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Title of project
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R&I Support
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| 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
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Name
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Host College
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Host Faculty
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Host Dept/School
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Title of project
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R&I Support
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| 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
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Name
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Host College
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Host Faculty
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Host Dept/School
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Title of project
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R&I Support
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| 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 |