Research in animal health and disease

Research groups and labs

• Animal Welfare Science Centre

  We contribute to improved animal welfare as a world leading provider of expert information, advice and education underpinned by rigorous research.

• Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health (APCAH)

  The Asia Pacific Centre for Animal Health (APCAH) is an internationally focused research and research training centre that aims to optimise animal production and product quality through improved control of infectious agents.

• BEAM Lab - Behavioural Ecology and Macroevolution

  Behavioural Ecology and Macroevolution studies of behavioural ecology from a broad evolutionary perspective. We use comparative analyses and field and lab experiments to answer different questions about nature.

• Bone and Muscle Cell Biology

  The Laboratory for Bone and Muscle Cell Biology studies regulation of the behaviour of bone, cartilage and muscle cells during development, regeneration and pathology.

• Centre for Equine Infectious Disease

  The Centre for Equine Infectious Disease is a major national resource for the study of equine diseases in Australia.

• Centre for Environmental and Economic Research

  A multidisciplinary research group of ecologists, data analysts, economists and animal and plant health specialists that focuses on environmental and economic outcomes.

• CAMEL (Climatic and Metabolic Ecology Lab)

  The research focus in the Climatic and Metabolic Ecology Lab is on how physical constraints on heat, water and nutritional balances limit the behaviour, distribution and abundance of species.

• Currie Lab Group - Heart Physiology and Torpor in Bats

  Researching how animals cope physiologically with energetic challenges both in controlled settings and in the wild.

• Equine Orthopaedic Research Group

  Researchers employ computational modelling, epidemiological studies, detailed investigation of bone microstructure, and bone biomechanical properties to investigate the causes of musculoskeletal injury in athletic horses.

• Frankenberg Lab – Synthetic Biology for Conservation

  Researching evolution, development and reproduction (Evo-Devo-Repro) and genomics of vertebrates, especially marsupials, and synthetic biology with ecologically therapeutic applications.

• Jameson Group – Bioinorganic Chemistry

  This groups aims to understand the chemical basis of disease through studying how enzymes work at the molecular level and understanding how enzyme malfunction contributes to disease progression.

• Jusuf Lab - Neural Development and Regeneration

  Understanding the genetic networks that co-ordinate the generation of different types of neurons in the central nervous system of vertebrates.

• The Mackinnon Project

  The Mackinnon Project is a recognised leader in sheep and beef consultancy in Australia and internationally.

• Mathematical Biology Group

  Mathematical, statistical and computational methods are crucial in many areas of modern biological research. Conversely technological advances in biology allow more data, often of a novel type or at a finer resolution, to be collected resulting in new challenges that are motivating research in mathematics, statistics and computational methods.

• Melbourne Analytical Geochemistry

  Melbourne Analytical Geochemistry—MAG—builds on over 20 years of field-leading trace element and isotope geochemistry.

• Mulder Lab - Evolutionary Ecology of Birds

  Researching the causes and consequences of variability in mating systems, particularly the relative importance of sexual and natural selection, the role of visual and acoustic signals, and the way in which cooperation and conflict interact in complex social groups.

• One Health Research Group

  The One Health Research Group (OHRG) provides solutions for wildlife health issues through research, training and extension that benefit humans, animals and the environment, as well as national and international leadership, communication and coordination.

• Pask Lab

  Evolution, development and reproduction. The Pask Lab explores fundamental questions in evolution, development and reproduction using comparative and genomic approaches.

• Parasitology

  Understanding parasites and the diseases that they cause, so that we can develop effective treatments, vaccines, diagnostic tests and strategies for effective control.

• Production Animals

  The group has a unique skillset covering a broad range of applied and fundamental research skills in a range of species including pigs, poultry, dairy cattle, sheep, beef cattle and goats.

• Stuart-Fox Lab - Animal Behaviour and Evolution

  The Stuart-Fox Lab studies the biology of light and colour, tackling questions at different scales of biological organisation – from optical properties at the nanometre scale to global patterns of colour diversity.

• Taking the Query out of Q Fever

  Taking the query out of Q fever is a multidisciplinary research-industry group that aims to improve understanding of Q fever reservoirs, amplification and transmission pathways.

• University of Melbourne Equine Centre

  The University of Melbourne Equine Centre Werribee provides state of the art care to horses of all shapes and sizes. Cases are referred to the Centre from all over Victoria and interstate to be examined and treated by veterinary specialists.

• Veterinary Anatomic Pathology

  The Veterinary Anatomic Pathology group in the Melbourne Veterinary School combines diagnostic services and anatomic pathology research with teaching in our Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree.

• Veterinary Epidemiology @ Melbourne

  The veterinary epidemiology group aims to generate new knowledge and techniques that can lead to improvements in animal health, with an emphasis on identifying emerging areas of inquiry, particularly those that cross disciplinary boundaries.

• Veterinary Inflammation and Metabolism

  The Veterinary Inflammation and Metabolism research group investigates the disease processes and develops novel therapies for inflammatory and metabolic diseases.

• Wallabase - Marsupial Reproductive Biology

  Research focusing on understanding reproduction and development in mammals (including humans), primarily using marsupials as biomedical models.