Welcome to WEHI's Virtual Student Open Day portal. This event allows prospective students to learn about Honours, Masters and PhD opportunities in 2023.

This event will be held online from 4:00pm-5:30pm on Tuesday 13 September (Melbourne time), using Microsoft Teams. 

You can access the sessions either via a web browser on a desktop (Firefox or Chrome preferred) or using the Microsoft Teams app on a desktop, phone or tablet. Please see the end of this page for troubleshooting.

If you have not already registered, please register now to ensure you receive the post-event information.

Learn more about WEHI's education opportunities, including application and scholarship information:

Join the event

Please note the Microsoft Teams meetings for the next event will be added by 13 September and will only be available to access during the listed session times.

The Virtual Student Open Day has two parts: 

4:00pm - 4:30pm: Online information session

Learn about studying at WEHI, and how to apply

Attend this session: Teams Live event

4:30pm - 5:30pm: Virtual networking session

In this session you can visit different Teams online meeting rooms to meet supervisors, students, our Scientific Education Office and Clinical Translation Centre.

Please note that Teams Meeting Rooms will only be accessible during the virtual networking session (4:30-5:30pm).

• Speak to our Scientific Education Office

Learn about how to apply, eligibility and scholarships.

Honours and Masters information: Teams meeting room

PhD information: Teams meeting room

• Meet our students

Find out about life as a student at WEHI from our WESA student association and student presenters: Teams meeting room

• Clinical Translation Centre

Find out about clinical translation, and the opportunities available for clinicians to study with us: Teams meeting room

• ​Discuss potential research projects with our researchers 

We offer projects for students at Honours, Masters and PhD level. Please visit supervisors to learn about their projects. 

The following links to project supervisors' online meeting rooms and projects are sorted by WEHI research divisions. Click on the 'Teams meeting room' link next to a supervisor's name to join their virtual meeting room where you can speak with them.

The project titles link to more information including supervisor contact details. 

Please note that Teams Meeting Rooms will only be accessible during the virtual networking session (4:30-5:30pm).

You can also search the full project list for your areas of interest.

ACRF Cancer Biology and Stem Cells division

Dr Yunshun (Andy) Chen: Teams meeting room 

• Developing computational methods for spatial transcriptomics data (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Developing statistical frameworks for analysing next generation sequencing data (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Statistical analysis of single-cell multi-omics data (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Dr Naiyang Fu: Teams meeting room

• Delineating the molecular and cellular origins of liver cancer to identify therapeutic targets (Masters, PhD)

Associate Professor Kate Sutherland: Teams meeting room

• Unveiling the heterogeneity of small cell lung cancer (PhD)
• Boosting the efficacy of immunotherapy in lung cancer (Honours)

Professor Jane Visvader: Teams meeting room

• Developing models for prevention of hereditary ovarian cancer (Masters, PhD)

ACRF Chemical Biology division

Associate Professor Ethan Goddard-Borger: Teams meeting room

• A multi-pronged approach to targeting myeloproliferative neoplasms (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Associate Professor Isabelle Lucet: Teams meeting room

• Doublecortin-like kinases, drug targets in cancer and neurological disorders (PhD) 

Dr Brad Sleebs: Teams meeting room

• Development and mechanism of action of novel antimalarials (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Exploiting the cell death pathway to fight Schistosomiasis (PhD)

Advanced Technology and Biology

Dr Rory Bowden: No virtual session available

• Development of novel RNA sequencing protocols for gene expression analysis (Honours, Masters)

Dr Raymond Yip: Teams meeting room

• Deciphering the heterogeneity of the tissue microenvironment by multiplexed 3D imaging (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Bioinformatics division

Professor Tony Papenfuss: Teams meeting room 

• Multi-modal computational investigation of single-cell communication in metastatic cancer (Masters, PhD)
• A new paradigm of machine learning-based structural variant detection (Masters, PhD)
• Structure, dynamics and impact of extra-chromosomal DNA in cancer (Masters, PhD)
• Removal of tissue contaminations from RNA-seq data (Masters)
• Integrative analysis of single cell RNAseq and ATAC-seq data (Masters)

Blood Cells and Blood Cancer division

Dr Diane Moujalled: Teams meeting room 

• Improving therapy in glioblastoma multiforme by activating complimentary programmed cell death pathways (Masters, PhD)

Dr Carolyn de Graaf: Teams meeting room

• Understanding the genetics of neutrophil maturation (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Epigenetics and Development

Dr Hamish King: Teams meeting room

• Functional epigenomics in human B cells (Masters/PhD)

Dr Hannah Vanyai: Teams meeting room

• Finding treatments for chromatin disorders of intellectual disability (Honours, PhD)

Associate Professor Matthew Ritchie: Teams meeting room

• Mapping spatial variation in gene and transcript expression across tissues (Masters, PhD)

Dr Stephin Vervoort: Teams meeting room

• Discovery and targeting of novel regulators of transcription (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Immunology division

Dr Vanessa Bryant: Teams meeting room

• Screening for novel genetic causes of primary immunodeficiency (Honours)

Associate Professor Daniel Gray: Teams meeting room

• Defining the mechanisms of thymic involution and regeneration (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Exploiting cell death pathways in regulatory T cells for cancer immunotherapy (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Targeting cell death pathways in tissue Tregs to treat inflammatory diseases (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Professor Phil Hodgkin: Teams meeting room

• The cellular and molecular calculation of life and death in lymphocyte regulation (Honours, PhD)
• Targeted deletion of disease-causing T cells (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Associate Professor Misty Jenkins: Teams meeting room

• Using combination immunotherapy to tackle heterogeneous brain tumours (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Using intravital microscopy for immunotherapy against brain tumours (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Associate Professor Shalin Naik: Teams meeting room

• Building a cell history recorder using synthetic biology for longitudinal patient monitoring (Honours, Masters, PhD`)

Infectious Diseases and Immune Defence division

Associate Professor Justin Boddey: Teams meeting room

• Characterisation of malaria parasite proteins exported into infected liver cells (Masters, PhD)
• Role of glycosylation in malaria parasite infection of liver cells, red blood cells and mosquitoes (Masters, PhD)

Dr Anna Coussens: Teams meeting room

• Advanced imaging interrogation of pathogen induced NETosis (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Epigenetic biomarkers of tuberculosis infection (PhD)
• Human lung protective immunity to tuberculosis (PhD) 

Professor Alan Cowman: Teams meeting room

• Understanding Plasmodium falciparum invasion of red blood cells (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Dr Matthew Dixon: Teams meeting room

• Developing drugs to block malaria transmission (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Malaria: going bananas for sex (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Mr Mikha Gabriela: Teams meeting room

• Using nanobodies to understand malaria invasion and transmission (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Dr Danushka Marapana: Teams meeting room

• Reversing antimalarial resistance in human malaria parasites (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Associate Professor Chris Tonkin: Teams meeting room

• Dissecting host cell invasion by the diarrhoeal pathogen Cryptosporidium (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• Interaction with Toxoplasma parasites and the brain (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Professor Deborah Williamson: No virtual session available

• Innovating novel diagnostic tools for infectious disease control (Masters, PhD)

Inflammation division

Dr Sophia Davidson: Teams meeting room

• Noncoding DNA: A whole lot of junk or a treasure trove of discovery? (Masters, PhD)

Professor Seth Masters: Teams meeting room

• Investigation of a novel cell death protein (Masters, PhD)

Professor John Silke: Teams meeting room

• The role of ribosylation in co-ordinating cell death and inflammation (Honours, Masters, PhD)
• The role of hypoxia in cell death and inflammation (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Associate Professor James Vince: Teams meeting room

• Nanoparticle delivery of antibody mRNA into cells to treat liver diseases (Masters, PhD)

Personalised Oncology division

Associate Professor Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat: Teams meeting room

• Interactions between tumour cells and their microenvironment in non-small cell lung cancer (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Dr Saskia Freytag: Teams meeting room

• Analysing the metabolic interactions in brain cancer (Honours, Masters)

Associate Professor Tracy Putoczki: No virtual session available

• Understanding cellular-cross talk within a tumour microenvironment (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Associate Professor Oliver Sieber: Teams meeting room

• Organoid-based precision medicine approaches for oral cancer (Masters, PhD)
• Organoid-based discovery of new drug combinations for bowel cancer (Masters, PhD)

Population Health and Immunity division

Dr Rhea Longley: Teams meeting room

• Naturally acquired immune response to malaria parasites (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Professor Sant-Rayn Pasricha: Teams meeting room

• How do nutrition interventions and interruption of malaria infection influence development of immunity in sub-Saharan African children? (Masters, PhD)
• Discoveries in red blood cell production and function (Masters, PhD)

Structural Biology division

Professor Peter Czabotar: Teams meeting room

• Using structural biology to understand programmed cell death (Honours, PhD)

Dr Nadia Kershaw: Teams meeting room

• Dissecting mechanisms of cytokine signalling (Honours, PhD)

Dr Alisa Glukhova: Teams meeting room

• Cryo-electron microscopy of Wnt signaling complexes (Honours, PhD)

Dr Shabih Shakeel: Teams meeting room

• Structural and functional analysis of epigenetic multi-protein complexes in genome regulation (Honours, Masters, PhD)

Ubiquitin Signalling division

Dr Bernhard Lechtenberg: Teams meeting room

• Understanding the roles of E3 ubiquitin ligases in health and disease (Honours, Mastesr, PhD)

Troubleshooting

• If you click on a Teams Meeting Room link and get a 'link not valid' error, this could mean:

  • The supervisor has not started the meeting yet (please note some supervisors are not available until later in the networking session) - please try another room, and/or come back to this room later

  • Your browser is not compatible with Teams. Firefox and Chrome are preferred.

  • On a mobile device (phone/tablet), your Teams app may not be working or up-to-date. 

• If you access a networking meeting and don't automatically enter, please wait in the lobby until you are admitted.

• If you can't access the networking meetings, or have trouble accessing a particular meeting room, supervisors can be emailed through the project pages - click on the project titles above.

• If a meeting room is busy, please consider using the chat function or use the ‘Raise your hand’ function to ask a question if using a laptop, computer or tablet.

• Our Scientific Education Office can also help prospective students: please email education@wehi.edu.au if you have any questions after the event.