2015 UNSW Goldstar Awards
Lead CI Full Name
Project Title
Faculty
Mobile media, young people and relationships
education
Trust, the crisis of liberalism and the modern novel
1902-1953
A new dimension in quantifying fundamental air-sea
fluxes
Intangible Heritage: an Indigenous ethnography of
the senses
Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences
Bonduriansky, Russell
Sex, energy and ageing
Faculty of Science
Brown, Andrew John
Uncovering new regulatory programs in sterol
production
Faculty of Science
Bryant, Richard Allan
Exercise and Emotional Memories
Faculty of Science
PSYC - School of Psychology
$30,000.00
Coster, Adelle
Insulin action: the mathematics of metabolism
Faculty of Science
MATH - School of Mathematics &
Statistics
$30,000.00
Crossley, Paul Merlin
A New Generation of Designer DNA-binding Factors
Faculty of Science
SCIAD - Science Administration
$40,000.00
UNSW Art & Design
CIC - Centre for Interactive Cinema
$30,000.00
Albury, Katherine Margaret
Attridge, John
Banner, Michael Leslie
Biddle, Jennifer
Del Favero, Dionisio
Dunwoodie, Sally
Dzurak, Andrew
Gaeta, Bruno Andre
Gemeinboeck, Petra
Graham AO, Robert M AO
Hamed, Ehab
INTRASPACE: Reformulating digital space as
intelligent dialogical aesthetic
Studying the effects of hypoxia on mouse
embryogenesis
A Single Electron Pump with Metrological Accuracy
The Functional Immunome: Predicting Antibody
Binding Specificity
Performative Body-Mapping (PBM) method for
socialising non-humanlike robots
Cardiac alpha-adrenergic responses to survival of the
fittest
Coupled hygrothermal-creep effects in adhesively
bonded lap joints
Faculty of Science
UNSW Art & Design
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
UNSW Art & Design
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Engineering
Harvey, Richard Paul
Defining the ground-plan for heart development
Faculty of Medicine
Holzer, Mark
Revealing the Southern Ocean's changing connection
with the atmosphere
Faculty of Science
School
$ Funded
EMPA - School of Arts and Media
$30,000.00
EMPA - School of Arts and Media
$30,000.00
MATH - School of Mathematics &
Statistics
NIEA - National Institute for
Experimental Arts
BEES - School of Biological, Earth &
Environmental Sciences
BABS - School of Biotechnology &
Biomolecular Sciences
VCCRI - Victor Chang Cardiac
Research Institute
ELEC - School of Electrical
Engineering & Telecommunications
COMPSC - School of Computer
Science & Engineering
COFAS - School of College of Fine
Arts
STVCL - St Vincent's Hospital Clinical
School
CVEN - School of Civil &
Environmental Engineering
STVMED - Dept of Medicine - St
Vincent's Hospital
MATH - School of Mathematics &
Statistics
$30,000.00
$30,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$30,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$30,000.00
2015 UNSW Goldstar Awards
Eckert, Danny
Kanhere, Salil
Khan, Stuart James
McDonald, Skye
Weickert, Cyndi Shannon
Don, Anthony Simon
Lucas, Richard Maxwell
Maghzal, Ghassan
Canfell, Karen
Marshall, Lucy Amanda
Senserrick, Teresa
Regan, David Gabriel
Meissner, Katrin
Di Girolamo, Nick
Micolich, Adam Paul
Pimanda, John Eshantha
Manil Obeyesekere
Rae, Caroline Dorothy
Targeting the upper airway muscles to treat
obstructive sleep apnoea
User-centered Information Privacy Control in
Pervasive Computing Systems
Inversion of chiral pharmaceuticals during biological
wastewater treatment.
Maximising psychosocial recovery after traumatic
brain injury: who and when to treat?
Is the blood brain barrier compromised in psychosis?
Sphingosine 1-phosphate as a link between ApoE
genotype and Alzheimer's Disease pathogenesis
Remote Sensing of vegetation dynamics at multiple
scales
Quantifying reactive species by mass spectrometry &
mathematical modelling
Evaluation of HPV vaccination and new low cost
cervical cancer screening technologies in rural and
urban China
Characterising hydrologic uncertainty via
approximate Bayesian computation
RIDE: prospective cohort and naturalistic riding study
of novice motorcyclists
Preparing for the imminent arrival of antimicrobial
resistant gonorrhoea in Australia through use of
mathematical modelling
Abrupt warming: new insights from isotopic
modelling and analysis
Mapping the fate of corneal epithelial stem cells in
health and disease
Novel materials for electrostatic gating of
semiconductor nanowire devices
Characterising Drug Resistance and Disease
Evolution in Patients with Myelodysplasia and
Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukaemia Receiving
Azacitidine
Control of brain metabolism and activity by
acetylation
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Science
APPP - Sch of Medical Sciences
COMPSC - School of Computer
Science & Engineering
CVEN - School of Civil &
Environmental Engineering
PSYC - School of Psychology
POWMRI1 - Neuroscience Research
Australia
POWCL - Prince Of Wales Clinical
School
BEES - School of Biological, Earth &
Environmental Sciences
VCCRI - Victor Chang Cardiac
Research Institute
POWCL - Prince Of Wales Clinical
School
CVEN - School of Civil &
Environmental Engineering
TARS - Transport and Road Safety
Research
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
NCHIV - The Kirby Institute
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
CCRC - Climate Change Research
Centre
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
APPP - Sch of Medical Sciences
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
PHYS - School of Physics
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
POWCL - Prince Of Wales Clinical
School
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
POWMRI - Neuroscience Research
Australia [Institute]
$40,000.00
2015 UNSW Goldstar Awards
Moles, Angela Tina
Ballard, John William Oman
Willcox, Mark Duncan Perry
Mather, Karen
Moore, Kate Hilda
Nickerson, Angela Marissa
Morris, Jonathan Charles
Parameswaran, Sri
Pickering, Mark
Chen, Xiang-Chun Jack
Boecking, Till
Hardeman, Edna Christine
Brew, Bruce James
Fath, Thomas
Whitford, Thomas
The biogeography of interactions between plants
and soil biota
Can dietary modification that minimises
mitochondrial stress reduce cellular and organismal
dysfunction caused by mutations in the fly
homologue of a gene known to cause familial
Parkinsonism?
Antimicrobial percutaneous biomaterials
Identifying the genetic determinants of white matter
hyperintensities
The Role of Occult Bacterial Cystitis in Refractory
Urge Incontinence - A Phase III randomised
controlled trial of antibiotic therapy with parallel
microbiological studies
Mechanisms of Psychosocial Adaptation in Refugees
Modulators of alternative splicing as novel
therapeutics in prostate cancer
Greening of Dark Silicon - A Network on Chip
Perspective
Volumetric motion hints and breakpoints for video
representation
The evaluation of a world-first state-wide program in
reducing children patient cardiac arrests and related
deaths in New South Wales
Formin' a functionally diverse actin cytoskeleton
Using novel drugs to dissect the physiological
functions of the actin cytoskeleton
Modulating the kynurenine pathway to promote
neural progenitor cell repair in multiple sclerosis.
Targeting the actin cytoskeleton to promote
neuronal regeneration
Distinguishing self from world: elucidating the neural
underpinnings of schizophrenia
Faculty of Science
BEES - School of Biological, Earth &
Environmental Sciences
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
BABS - School of Biotechnology &
Biomolecular Sciences
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
OPTOM - School of Optometry &
Vision Science
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
PSYOP - Sch of Psychiatry-Operating
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
WCH - Sch of WCH - Operating
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
PSYC - School of Psychology
$30,000.00
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Engineering
CHEMSCI - School of Chemical
Science
COMPSC - School of Computer
Science & Engineering
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
UNSW Canberra
Z6300 - School of Engineering & IT
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
SWSCL - SWSAHS Clinical Sch
Operating
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
THRO - Centre for Vascular Research
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
APPP - Sch of Medical Sciences
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
CIMM - St Vincent's Centre for
Applied Medical Research
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
APPP - Sch of Medical Sciences
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
PSYC - School of Psychology
$40,000.00
2015 UNSW Goldstar Awards
Tran, Thanh
Novel Approaches for Problems with Uncertainties
Faculty of Science
Brown, David
MIC-1/GDF15 in autoimmune inflammatory disease
Faculty of Medicine
Sushkov, Oleg P
Ulrich, Clemens
White, David
Halliday, Glenda Margaret
Taft, Marcus
Yeoh, Guan Heng
Tanaka, Mark
Graham, Bronwyn Margaret
Thielscher, Michael
Yun, Sung Lai Jimmy
Suaning, Gregg Jorgen
Passam, Freda
Marks, Guy Barrington
Kay-Lambkin, Frances
Kim, Scott
Effects of disorder on artificial graphene-like
materials
Transition Metal Oxide Interfaces: Novel Emergent
Phenomena
Individual differences in forensic image comparison
Neuronal toll-like 2 receptors contribute to the
spread of Parkinson's disease
AUSTRAL: A new computational model of reading.
Seismic protection of structures via
magnetorheological dampers
The evolutionary dynamics of host-associated
microbial communities
Fibroblast growth factor-2: a novel means of fighting
fear
Logical Foundations for General Game-Playing
Robots
A low temperature one-step synthesis for inorganic
nanoparticle-dispersions
Complementary bionic vision therapy for the
severely visually impaired
Control of thrombus formation by S-nitrosylation
A BOLD new model for chronic non-specific
respiratory disease to enable better research,
prevention, treatment and outcomes
Managing adverse lifestyle factors in Bipolar
Disorder: A randomised controlled trial
Discovery of a new Alzheimer’s disease risk gene
ABCA7 provides impetus for trialling leptin as a
therapy for Alzheimer’s disease
MATH - School of Mathematics &
Statistics
STVCL - St Vincent's Hospital Clinical
School
$30,000.00
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
PHYS - School of Physics
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
PHYS - School of Physics
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
PSYC - School of Psychology
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
MEDRS - Med Research Support
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
PSYC - School of Psychology
MECH - School of Mechanical &
Manufacturing Engineering
BABS - School of Biotechnology &
Biomolecular Sciences
$30,000.00
PSYC - School of Psychology
$40,000.00
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Medicine
COMPSC - School of Computer
Science & Engineering
CEIC - School of Chemical Sciences &
Engineering
GBIOM - Graduate School of
Biomedical Engineering
STGCL - St George Clinical Sch
Operating
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
PHCM - School of Public Health &
Community Medicine
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
NDARC - National Drug & Alcohol
Research Centre
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
APPP - Sch of Medical Sciences
$40,000.00
2015 UNSW Goldstar Awards
Meiser, Bettina
Morris, Kevin Vance
Newton, Nicola Clare Alice
MacKenzie, Karen
Lan, Ruiting
Yuan, Jinhong
Pimanda, John Eshantha
Manil Obeyesekere
Slade, Timothy Newman
Loo, Colleen Keng Ai
When the stakes are high: Psychological and
behavioural impact of genomic testing for breast
cancer risk
Activating cystic fibrosis conductance regulator
expression: the therapeutic potential of RNA
directed gene activation
StraightUp: Testing the effectiveness of an
integrated online intervention for students and
parents to prevent substance use and related harms
in adolescents.
Dyskerin as a novel therapeutic target in neoplastic
cells
Elucidating the role and mechanisms of Bordetella
pertussis adaptation to vaccine selection pressure in
the 2008-2012 pertussis epidemic in Australia
Massive Multiple-input/Multiple-output (MIMO) for
Wireless Data Networks
Targeting Stem Cell Circuits in Acute Myeloid
Leukaemia
The RADAR Project: Identifying early warning signals
on the pathways to alcohol use disorder
Determinants of Treatment Outcomes in
Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Combined Clinical and
Computational Modelling Approach
Faculty of Medicine
POWCL - Prince Of Wales Clinical
School
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
BABS - School of Biotechnology &
Biomolecular Sciences
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
NDARC - National Drug & Alcohol
Research Centre
$40,000.00
Faculty of Medicine
BABS - School of Biotechnology &
Biomolecular Sciences
$40,000.00
Faculty of Science
BABS - School of Biotechnology &
Biomolecular Sciences
$40,000.00
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
ELEC - School of Electrical
Engineering & Telecommunications
POWCL - Prince Of Wales Clinical
School
NDARC - National Drug & Alcohol
Research Centre
PSYCH - School of Psychiatry
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00
$40,000.00