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FABLS Funded projects

FABLS has been continuously funding projects that meet general FABLS guidelines. A list of the funded projects are available below:

FABLS Funded Projects
FABLS Fund Round, Year
Project CI
Project Title
Round 2, 2008 Filip Braet Development of smart fluorescent anti-cancer conjugates to detect drug resistant tumour cells
Round 2, 2008 Eric Hanssen Correlative fluorescence of malaria parasite
Round 2, 2008 Jake Baum Imaging actin dynamics in the malaria parasite: Development of live-fluorescence microscopy to visualize actin dynamics during malaria parasite cell invasion and motility
Round 2, 2008 Marek Godlewski Fluorescence labels based on nanosize rare earth doped oxides for in-vivo labelling of fungal hyphae
Round 2, 2008 Sarah Russell Development of a system for high content microscope scans of T-cells
Round 2, 2008 Rhiannon Creasey Characterisation of pathological deposits in Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome by means of antibody recognition imaging
Round 2, 2008 Helen Pask Lab exchanges: Macquarie University/University of Strathclyde
Round 2, 2008 Tom Lawson Enhancing the detection of bacteria and other pathogens in blood using multiplexed temporal and spectral techniques
Round 2, 2008 Betty Kouskousis Live-cell superresolution microscopy of asymmetric T-cell division
Round 2, 2008 Jacob Petrich Intramolecular Hydrogen atom transfer of the medicinal pigment curcumin upon binding with plasma proteins – A time resolved fluorescence study
Round 2, 2008 Catherine Whitby Controlled particle attachment at fluid interfaces - Confocal microscopy
Round 2, 2008 Peter Lay Metal fluorescence labels. Do they confound the biochemical information they hope to provide?
Round 2, 2008 Rob Learmonth Prototyping design and applications for a multi wavelength fluorometer for monitoring of industrial fermentations
Round 2, 2008 Jennifer Clarke Image correlation spectroscopy analysis of neuropeptide diffusion and binding kinetics
Round 1, 2008 Ron Clarke Fluorescence-based Analysis of the Effect of Protein Oligomerisation on Mg2+ Binding to the Sodium Pump
Round 1, 2008 Michal Godlewski Scanning the Finder Grids for Correlative Microscopy
Round 1, 2008 Ian Smyth Next Generation Optical Projection Tomography
Round 1, 2008 Ying Zhu Fluorescence Imaging of Polymicrobial Interactions in Dental Biofilm
Round 1, 2008 Warwick Bowen Monitoring Single Molecules With Integrated Microcavities
Round 1, 2008 David Inglis Microfluidic Devices for Rare Cell Enrichment
Round 1, 2008 Kieran Short Imaging and Analysis of Kidney Development using Optical Projection Tomography
Round 1, 2008 Alejandra Tricerri Characterisation of Plasma Membrane Lateral Heterogeneity by Two-Photon Excitation Fluorescence Microscopy
Round 1, 2008 David Coutts Surface Enhanced CARS Microscopy
Round 1, 2008 Deborah Barton Novel Methods to Image Fluorescent Fusion Proteins within Plant Cells by Combining Photooxidation and Correlative Microscopy Techniques
Round 1, 2008 Thomas Hall Establishment of an Analysis Platform for Stem Cell Deployment in Fluorescent Zebrafish Models
Round 1, 2008 Yabai He Biosensing by Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy
Round 1, 2008 Janna Morrison Do Small Babies Have Fewer Myofibrils in Their Heart Muscle Cells?
Round 1, 2008 Benjamin Thierry Up-Conversion Energy Transfer for Nanoparticulate-triggered Photodynamic Therapy
Round 1, 2008 Adrian Smith Development and Optimisation of OPO-based Multi-photon Fluorescence Imaging
Round 1, 2008 Krystyna Drozdowicz-Tomsia Uniform Nanostructures and Their Applications for Surface Enhanced Fluorescence
Round 1, 2008 Jim Piper Ultra-bright Luminescence Nanoparticles as Cellular Biolabels
Round 1, 2008 Linda Chen Development of a Novel Method to Investigate the Thermal Effects on Small Biological Samples Using Temperature-dependent Fluorescent Dyes
Round 1, 2008 Cynthia Whitchurch Fluorescence Imaging and Analysis of Bacterial Surface Motility
Round 1, 2008 Brett Hambly Mapping Macromolecular Interactions of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C in Health and Disease Using Novel Fluorescence Techniques
Round 1, 2008 Niina Tujula Monitoring the Q-Beta Replicase Assay with Molecular Beacons
Round 1, 2008 Wenrong Yang Topology and Dynamics of Surface-immobilised DNA Hybrids at the Single Molecule Level
Round 1, 2008 Siyi Ong Study of Single DNA Molecule Mechanics Using Optical Tweezers
Round 1, 2008 Tak Kee Characterisation of Conjugated Polymeric Nanoparticles for Bio-imaging Using Two-Photon Fluorescence and Atomic Force Microscopy
Round 1, 2008 Peter Currie Inflammation in Muscular Dystrophy
Round 1, 2008 James Burchfield Quantitative Analysis of Fluorescently Determined Biological Processes
Round 1, 2008 Trevor Smith FABLS Strategic Groups Application for developing an Advanced Optical Imaging Facility
Round 2, 2007 Ron Clarke Binding of fluorescently-labelled ATP derivatives to the sodium pump
Round 2, 2007 Pierre Moens Raster scan Image Correlation Spectroscopy in Giant Unilamellar vesicles
Round 2, 2007 Leann Tilley Characterisation of novel red fluorescent proteins to study protein trafficking in malaria parasite-infected erythrocytes
Round 2, 2007 Riccardo Cicchi Metabolic imaging of diseased human skin
Round 2, 2007 Louise Brown FRET-ing over CLIC insertion
Round 2, 2007 Ken Ghiggino Development of “Upconversion” Fluorescence Probes for Life Science Applications
Round 2, 2007 Morry Silberstein In vivo Fluorescent Imaging of the Cutaneous C-Fiber Afferent Nervous System
Round 2, 2007 Liz Harry Bacterial cell biology: Investigating an optical revolution
Round 2, 2007 Xiaotao Hao Fluorescence imaging of aligned macromolecular systems
Round 2, 2007 Heath Ecroyd Investigations into the anti-amyloid properties of curcumin using fluorescence-based spectroscopy
Round 2, 2007 James Rabeau Nanodiamond based biomarkers
Round 2, 2007 Hemant Bhatta Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) to study the diffusion through diatoms and other biological membrane
Round 2, 2007 Kristina Youngs Imaging organelle autophagy yeast at super resolution in real-time
Round 2, 2007 Tak Kee Visualising Differentiation of Adult Stem Cells using Nonlinear Microscopy
Round 2, 2007 Phil Wearne Fluorescence spectroscopy and mass spectrometry of biomolecules and nanoparticles
Round 2, 2007 Robert Richardson-Bryson Improvements in Optical Projection Tomography Reconstructions
Round 2, 2007 Craig Priest Online capsule formation by consecutive adsorption of fluorescent polyelectrolyte in a microfluidic network
Round 2, 2007 Nick Klonis High Resolution Imaging of Maurer's Cleft Structures in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Round 2, 2007 Niina Tujula Multiplex detection of bacterial pathogens using fluorescence activated cell sorting
Round 2, 2007 Matthew Nussio Construction and Characterisation of Biomimetic Membranes for Use in Drug Binding Studies
Round 2, 2007 Frederique Vanholsbeeck Invisibility in the Ocean
Round 2, 2007 David James A High-throughput Fluorescence Screen to identify novel mediators of insulin action
Round 2, 2007 Victor Bagratashvili Confocal time-resolved and Raman spectral characterisation of photoactive red fluorescent proteins
Round 2, 2007 Brian Orr Coherent Raman Microscopy: An Ongoing Feasibility Study
Round 2, 2007 Andrei Zvyagin Non-linear optical microscopy of cartilage towards in vivo sensor
Round 2, 2007 Katharina Gaus Stimulated emission depletion (STED) fluorescence imaging of cell membrane domains
Round 1, 2007 Ann Gaeth The regulation of copper homeostasis and its role in Menkes disease and other human diseases.
Round 1, 2007 Craig Lincoln Characterisation and Development of GFP Homologs for Use as Fluorescent Markers
Round 1, 2007 Cris dos Remedios & Filip Braet Combining fluorescence probes with scanning electron microscopy to identify peripheral blood leukocytes immobilized on a solid support
Round 1, 2007 Damian Bird Determination of the refractive index dependence of fluorescence resonance energy transfer rates in solution
Round 1, 2007 Dayong Jin Background-free imaging flow cytometry
Round 1, 2007 Ewa Goldys Ultrasensitive bioassays for whole blood analysis
Round 1, 2007 Kannan Krishnan Structure and Function of Human Profilin I
Round 1, 2007 Martin Harris Particle Profile Analysis ( 3D)
Round 1, 2007 Ron Clarke Fluorescence-based analysis of the effect of protein oligomerisation on the kinetics of the sodium pump
Round 1, 2007 William Hughes Imaging Exocytosis; Development of methodologies to determine the role of plasma membrane phospholipids in regulating the ‘final’ steps in exocytotic events.
Round 1, 2007 Trevor Smith Advanced Fluorescence Techniques
Round 2, 2006 Ron Clarke Kinetic analysis of the sodium pump via fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Round 2, 2006 Joe Shapter Visualising Membrane Interactions with Drugs using Polarity-Sensitive Fluorescence Probes
Round 2, 2006 Lilian Soon Dynamic in vitro and in vivo imaging of photoactivable proteins during cancer cell invasion
Round 2, 2006 Tak W Kee Laser Spectroscopic Investigations on the Photo-Medicinal Effects of the Anti-Tumour Agent Curcumin
Round 2, 2006 Meredith Wallwork Detection of myofibrillar density changes in cardiomyocytes by second harmonic generation as a tool for assessing terminal differentiation in growth restricted fetuses
Round 2, 2006 Deborah Barton Development of Reproducible Methods to Identify the Precise Localisation of Specific Biomolecules to Subcellular Compartments within Plant and Animal Cells using Correlative Imaging Techniques
Round 2, 2006 Paul Meredith The Fluorescent States of Synthetic Eumelanins: The Next Generation of Biophotonic Materials
Round 2, 2006 Seth Olsen Investigating Chromophore-Protein Interactions in Coral Chromoproteins through Real and In Silico mutagenesis
Round 2, 2006 Frederique Vanholsbeeck Macroscopic Fluorescence Applications
Round 2, 2006 Mark Edwards The isolation and characterisation of Endo-β-N-Acetylglucosaminidase from Trichoderma reesei using a novel fluorescence based assay
Round 1, 2006 David Sampson Imaging and characterising skeletal muscle tissue
Round 1, 2006 Andrei Zvyagin Application of luminescent nanodiamonds to intracelluar imaging
Round 1, 2006 Pall Thordarson Electron Transfer in donor-acceptor bioconjugates
Round 1, 2006 Warwick Bowen Biosensing with silicon chip based microcavities
Round 1, 2006 Andrew Bradbury The development of chromobody technology
Round 1, 2006 Andrew Clayton Exploring the Membrane Organization of the Serotonin-1A Receptor in Living Cells by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) and Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
Round 1, 2006 Daniel Day Novel biophotonics techniques for laser tweezing, micro-fluidics and laser transfection.
Round 1, 2006 Toby Bell Single molecule fluorescence of biologically relevant systems.
Round 1, 2006 Dayong Jin Time-gated Luminescence flow cytometry counting method for HIV monitoring in resource poor settings
Round 1, 2006 Ron Clarke Fluorescent-based imaging of electric field strength across cell surfaces
Round 1, 2006 Brian Orr CARS Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy: A Feasibility Study
Round 1, 2006 Nick Klonis Qunatitation of oxidative stress in malaria parasite-infected erythrocytes using a new mouse model
Round 1, 2006 Seth Olsen Investigating Chromophore-Protein Interactions in Coral Chromoproteins through Teal and In Silico mutagenesis
Round 1, 2006 Michelle Gee Evanescent Wave Induced Fluorescence as a Probe of Fluidics in Novel polymer Materials
Round 2, 2005 Jennifer Dyson Super-resolution of Platelet Cytoskeleton using Fluorescence Labeling Techniques
Round 2, 2005 Seth Olsen Investigating Protein-Chromophore interactions in coral chromoproteins through real and in silico mutagenesis
Round 2, 2005 Peter Karuso New Fluorescent Probes for Cell Biology
Round 2, 2005 Helena Navalainen Secretion of gene products from a fungal cell factory
Round 2, 2005 Anya Salih Characterisation of novel fluorescent proteins from marine organisms and development for in vivo fluorescence imaging applications
Round 2, 2005 Ron Clarke In situ measurements of the electrostatic potential within redox proteins via a quinone-linked voltage-sensitive fluorescent probe
Round 2, 2005 Filip Braet Establishment of a New Imaging Method to Correlate Fluorescence- and Electron Microscopic Information on the Same Biological Samples
Round 2, 2005 Damian Bird An Investigation into the Absorption of Nanoparticles through Skin via Time-Resolved Scanning Near-Field Fluorescence Microscopy
Round 2, 2005 David Sampson Innovations in deep tissue imaging
Round 2, 2005 Pierre Moens Dynamic interactions between phosphatidylinositol (4,5) bisphosphate [PIP2], profilin and actin in Giant Unilamellar vesicles(GUV)
Round 2, 2005 Dan Nicolau Use of quantum dot bioconjugates to visualize in vitro actomyosin motility and its modulation by antibody-antigen interactions; towards an ultra-sensitive biosensing device.
Round 2, 2005 Charles Cranfield Nonlinear optical techniques for activation and imaging of bone cells
Round 2, 2005 Liz Harry Bacterial cell biology: Investigating an optical revolution
Round 2, 2005 Wouter Kalle Immuno-fluorescence measurement of MMR proteins involved in HNPCC
Round 1, 2005 Alan Trounson Raman and Enhanced Raman spectroscopy as micron and sub micron probes of single cells
Round 1, 2005 Don McNaughton
Round 1, 2005 John Beardall
Round 1, 2005 Mark Prescott Isolation of novel all-protein chromophores
Round 1, 2005 Seth Olsen Investigating Protein-Chromophore interactions in coral chromoproteins through real and in silico mutagenesis
Round 1, 2005 Ewa Goldys System development for plasmon nanobiosensors for whole blood analysis
Round 1, 2005 Helena Navalainen Secretion of gene products from a fungal cell factory
Round 1, 2005 Mark Baker Development of fluorescent ultra sensitive protein staining technology and its application to the visualisation of low abundance protein biomarkers
Round 1, 2005 Anya Salih Characterisation of novel fluorescent proteins from marine organisms and development for in vivo fluorescence imaging applications
Round 1, 2005 Ron Clarke In situ measurements of the electrostatic potential within redox proteins via a quinone-linked voltage-sensitive fluorescent probe
Round 1, 2005 Filip Braet Establishment of a New Imaging Method to Correlate Fluorescence- and Electron Microscopic Information on the Same Biological Samples
Round 1, 2005 Paul Mulvaney Novel Conjugation techniques for QD Biolabelling of Protein and OligonucleoMoenstides
Round 1, 2005 Travor Smith Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Studies of Conformational Changes in Oligonucleotide Sequences On Adsorption
Round 1, 2005 James Camakaris Real time imaging studies of trafficking of copper homeostasis proteins involved in Menkes disease and Alzheimer’s disease
Round 1, 2005 Ken Ghiggino FABLS Sponsorship of XXII International Conference on Photochemistry and Workshop on Ultrasensitive Fluorescence Detection
Round 1, 2005 David Sampson Innovations in deep tissue imaging
Round 1, 2005 Pierre Moens Dynamic interactions between phosphatidylinositol (4,5) bisphosphate [PIP2], profilin and actin in Giant Unilamellar vesicles(GUV)
Round 1, 2005 John Harvey Macroscopic Fluorescence Applications
Round 1, 2005 Dan Nicolau Use of quantum dot bioconjugates to visualize in vitro actomyosin motility and its modulation by antibody-antigen interactions; towards an ultra-sensitive biosensing device.
Round 1, 2005 Charles Cranfield Nonlinear optical techniques for activation and imaging of bone cells
Round 1, 2005 Carola Thonil Bacterial and fungi cell biology: Investigating 4Pi microscopy
Round 1, 2005 Liz Harry Bacterial cell biology: Investigating an optical revolution
Round 1, 2005 David Jameson Time-Resolved Fluorescence Studies on Ribosome-Associated L12
Round 1, 2005 Robert Learnmonth Investigation of microbes and their processes by fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy
Round 1, 2005 Stuart Rumble Characterisation of FLIM systems
Round 1, 2005 Leann Tilley Advanced fluorescence microscopy-based techniques for investigating the biology of the malaria parasite