Research Activities in the School

Research in the School has a broad scope ranging from clinical applications of nutrition including diet and obesity, to the development of new biophysical methods and theory in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The School has a superb range of major instrumental facilities available to staff and postgraduate and Honours students. Particular strengths include proteomics, structural biology (x-ray and NMR), microbiology, metabolism, molecular biology, molecular genetics, and nutrition. Research efforts are strengthened by the presence of 25 post-doctoral research Fellows funded by the ARC, NHMRC, NIH, Royal Society of London, and the Wellcome Trust, amongst other bodies. In 2006 the School received in excess of $7.5 million in competitive research grants from government, industry and charity.

Weekly research seminars provide a focus for research efforts in the School (see Seminars in News and Events).

• Physical Biochemistry & Structural Biology
• Microbiology
• Molecular Biology & Genetics
• Nutrition & Metabolism
• Proteomics & Biotechnology

• Centre for Structural Biology and Structural Chemistry
• Nutrition Research Foundation
• Centre for Public Health & Nutrition