Research Units in Biochemistry

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is very active in a variety of research areas, has made significant contributions in these areas and is well respected internationally as a research centre.

• Autophagy
• Bacteria and cancer 
• Bacterial toxins and immunity
• Cancer biology and metastasis laboratory
• Cellular signalling and human disease
• Developmental biology of the skin
• Developmental and RNA biology
• Down Syndrome Research
• Fungal Pathogens and Gene Expression Control
• Immunosuppressants/Apoptosis/Bioenergy/Memory formation
• Infection and immunity
• Intracellular signalling and cancer
• Mitochondria in ageing and disease, cell regulation and cell death
• Protein targeting and molecular machines
• Monash Yeast Collective
• Nuclear signalling
• Peptide biology and proteomics laboratories
• Peptide folding and drug design
• Proteases, serpins and cytolysins in cell development and death
• Protein folding, misfolding and disease
• Protein interaction and cancer research lab
• Structural and biophysical studies of macromolecular interactions
• Structural biology and bioinformatics – analyzing the human genome
• Structural Biology Unit
• Structure-function relationships of proteases, their inhibitors and receptors and relationship to disease
• Structural virology
• The role of proteins in immunity, development and cancer