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Grants Awarded Between 10 September and 4 October 2013

ANZ PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS HOLSWORTH WILDLIFE

Dr Siegfried Krauss, Benjamin Anderson, School of Plant Biology:  'Diversity in the Triodia basedowii E.Pritz. species complex and its implications for the evolution of the Australian arid zone biota'- $7,500 (2013)

Professor Jessica Meeuwig, Zhao Oh, Centre for Marine FuturesL:  'Characterising the ecological role of nursery areas for the protection of two coastal shark species at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia'- $7,500 (2013)

ARC AUSTRALIAN LAUREATE FELLOWSHIPS

Winthrop Professor Mark Cassidy, Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems:  'New Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics:  Securing Australia's Energy Future' (2014-18)

ARUP GROUP

Winthrop Professor Barry Lehane, School of Civil and Resource Engineering:  'Improving Foundation Design in Australian Residual Soils'-  $20,000 (2013)

ASTHMA AUSTRALIA

Dr Stephen Stick, Dr Anthony Kicic, Dr Anthony Bosco, Professor Darryl Knight, Professor Peter Wark, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Newcastle, John Hunter Children's Hospital:  'The Asthmatic Epithelium from Childhood to Adulthood'-  $160,000 (2013-14)

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND WELFARE

Professor Pat Dudgeon, Dr Rosalyn Walker, Dr Claire Scrine, Mr Carrington Shepherd, Professor Ian Ring, Dr Tom Calma, School of Indigenous Studies, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, University of Wollongong, University of Canberra:  'Closing the Gap Clearing House Building the Evidence Base for Effective Strategies to Strengthen and Promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing'-       $33,431 (2013)

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTION OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LTD

Dr Simon Grabowsky, Dr Alison Edwards, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation ANSTO:  'Towards the understanding of proton-transfer reactions by means of topological catastrophes - Part 3'- $2,667 (2013)

AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON COMPANY LIMITED

Dr Steven Micklethwaite, Dr Mary Gee, School of Earth and Environment:  'Elemental Distribution of Gold in Arsenic-rich Phases as Indicators of Remobilisation'- $2,400 (2013)

CRC FOR WATER SENSITIVE CITIES

Winthrop Professor Geoffrey London, School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, Monash University, University of Queensland:  'Project D5.1:  Urban Intensification and Green Infrastructure:  Towards a Water Sensitive City'- $319,674 (2014-17)

CSIRO EX WA MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE WAMSI

Associate Professor Nicole Jones, Associate Professor Matthew Hipsey, Professor Ryan Lowe, School of Environmental Systems Engineering, School of Earth and Environment:  'Terrestrial Ocean Linkages ‑ the Role of Rivers and Estuaries in Sustaining Marine Productivity in the Kimberley'-  $155,040 (2013-15)

DIICCSRTE ENTERPRISE CONNECT AND DIMERIX BIOSCIENCE PTY LTD

Werner Jaeger, UWA Centre for Medical Research:  'Assay Development Program'- $129,237 (2013-14)

NHMRC CENTRES OF RESEARCH EXCELLENCE

Professor Karen Edmond, Research Fellow Daniel McAullay, Professor David Atkinson, Professor Rhonda Marriott, Professor Ross Baili, Associate Professor Alan Ruben, Associate Professor Mark Wenitong, Professor Victor Nossar, Professor Betty Kirkwood, Professor Fiona Stanley, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, Murdoch University, Australian National University, Menzies School of Health Research, James Cook University, Flinders University, University of London, Charles Darwin University, Rural Clinical School:  'Centre of research excellence in improving health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children'-$2,331,586 (2014-18)

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Dr Pilar Blancafort, Professor Ryan Lister, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology:  'Precision Editing of DNA Methylation Patterns in the Mammalian Genome'- $374,373 (2013-14)

PACKARD HUMANITIES INSTITUTE

Winthrop Professor David Kennedy, School of Humanities:  'Aerial Archaeology in Jordan' -  $373,932 (2013)

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE SARDI EX DSEWPC

Associate Professor Matthew Hipsey, School of Earth and Environment:  'Monitoring the Environmental Outcomes of Commonwealth Environmental Water Use in South Australia during 2012 and 2013'-  $31,684 (2013)

STATE HEALTH RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL (SHRAC)

Winthrop Professor Gary Hulse, Hanh Ngo, Professor Elizabeth Geelhoed, Dr George O'Neil, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Population Health, Fresh Start:  'Morbidity Associated with Pharmacotherapies for Opioid Dependence ‑ A Comparative Cost Efficiency Analysis'- $12,000 (2015)

UWA RESEARCH COLLABORATION AWARDS

Sarah Ward, Professor Marianne Berwick, Professor Iman Osman, Professor Colin Begg, Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, University of New Mexico, New York University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre:  'Biomarker discovery for melanoma risk and prognosis'- $15,000  (2014)

Dr Danail Obreschkow, Dr Mohamed Farhat, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne ‑ EPFL (Switzerland):  'Bubbles in weightlessness'-  $17,200 (2014)

Assistant Professor Grand Joldes, Dr Barry Doyle, Professor Ron Kikinis, Professor Gabor Fichtinger, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Harvard University, Queens University (Ontario):  'Enabling the validation of biomechanics based brain registration'- $19,750 (2014)

Associate Professor Alison Reid, Professor Marc Schenker, UWA Centre for Medical Research, University of California Davis:  'Establishing a collaboration on migration, work and health'-  $9,600 (2014)

Associate Professor Ullrich Ecker, Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Donna Bayliss, Dr Christopher Jarrold, Dr Simon Farrell, John Cook, Dr Jonathan Brooks, Dr Jade Thai, Dr Josie Briscoe, School of Psychology, University of Bristol:  'Memory Models and Neuroimaging'- $19,000 (2014)

Professor Kevin Croft, Assistant Professor Natalie Ward, Professor Roland Stocker, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute:  'How dietary flavonoids improve vascular function'-      $9,300 (2014)

Professor Leigh Simmons, Dr John Fitzpatrick, School of Animal Biology, University of Manchester:  'Exploring trade-offs between sexual traits'-  $10,000 (2014)

Dr Rebecca Fuller, Associate Professor David Arnold, Assistant Professor Jennifer Andrew, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Florida:  'Exchange spring permanent magnets based on monodisperse nanoparticles embedded in a thin film'-  $12,000 (2014)

Professor Susan Prescott, Professor James Gern, Professor Thomas McDade, Dr Rae-Chi Huang, Paul Noakes, Professor Dianne Campbell, Doctor Michael Levin, Professor Phillip Calder, Professor Harald Renz, Dr David Martino, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, University of Alberta, University of Melbourne, University of Wisconsin‑Madison, University of Southampton, University of Cape Town, University of Marburg, Northwestern University, Evanston:  'Facilitating a new collaborative NIH application in response to recent NIH RO1 call for mechanistic studies into Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)'- $18,000 (2014)

Dr Catherine Kelly, Doctor Joan Tumblety, Law School, University of Southampton:  'Physicians as lobbyists in Britain and Europe, c. 1850 ‑ 1950'-  $11,880 (2014)

Dr Saskia DeCuypere, Professor Rainer Breitling, Dr Andris Jankevics, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, University of Manchester:  'Bioinformatics and biostatistical methods for metabolomics-based biomarker discovery'-$12,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Chunbo Ma, Professor Xiaoli Zhao, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North China Electric Power University:  'Modelling productivity performance of China's coal-fired electricity generation'- $25,500 (2014)

Dr Ben Jackson, Professor David Conroy, Senior Lecturer Josh Compton, School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, Pennsylvania State University, Dartmouth College:  'Attitude immunisation:  Using inoculation theory to promote healthy behaviour among high school students'- $10,000 (2014)

Associate Professor Jeffrey Shragge, Dr Kasper Van Wijk, Dr Ludmila Adam, School of Earth and Environment, University of Auckland:  'Full-waveform imaging and inversion of laser-ultrasound measurements of CO2-injected sandstones'-  $10,000 (2014)

Dr Matthew Payne, Dr Brad Spiller, School of Women's and Infants' Health, Cardiff University:  'Molecular characterisation of Ureaplasma spp.  Towards identifying strains associated with preterm birth'-  $13,175 (2014)

Dr Michael Stat, Dr Bill Leggat, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (00012), James Cook University:  'Comparative analysis of nutrient uptake by coal endosymbionts under ambient conditions and thermal stress'- $12,000 (2014)

Research Associate Weiguang Cui, Dr Alexander Knebe, Professor Geraint Lewis, Professor Stefano Borgani, Professor Volker Springel, Dr Pascal Elahi, University of Sydney, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Universidad Autonoma De Madrid, University of Trieste, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies:  'Probing the Dark Universe using the Cosmic Web'-  $19,750 (2014)

Associate Professor Christopher Power, Professor Carlton Baugh, Dr Andrew Benson, Steven Murray, Paul Scott‑Taylor, School of Physics, University of Durham, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Carnegie Observatories:  'Fast, approximate synthetic universes for the SKA'- $19,425 (2014)

Dr Julien Bourget, Dr Stephan Jorry, Simon Courgeon, School of Earth and Environment, IFREMER (Institut francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation):  'Life and death of a fossil "Great Barrier Reef":  Unravelling climate and sea-level changes in the past 3 million years in northern Australia with numerical modelling'-  $15,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Charles Price, Professor Uwe Hacke, School of Plant Biology, University of Alberta:  'Evaluating the risk of hydraulic failure in select Banksia species'- $12,000 (2014)

Dr Pilar Blancafort, Professor Nancy Allbritton, Assistant Professor Nathan Pavlos, Winthrop Professor David Wood, Winthrop Professor Ming Zheng, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:  'Bone on a chip: Novel microfluidics technology to study cancer metastasis in the bone'-$20,000 (2014)

Daniel Creedon, Dr Jose Aumentado, Adam Sirois, School of Physics, National Institute of Standards and Technology (US), University of Colorado, Boulder:  'Exploiting sapphire oscillator technology for quantum measurement and control'-$17,000 (2014)

Ylva Olsen, Dr Oscar Serrano, Dr Iris Hendricks, UWA Oceans Institute, Spanish National Research Council:  'Do seagrass meadows provide pH refugia for calcifying organisms?'- $16,510 (2014)

Associate Professor Muhammad Hossain, Professor Yun Choo, Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology:  'Widening and deepening ongoing research collaboration between the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)'- $10,000 (2014)

Winthrop Professor Timothy Davis, Professor Timothy St Pierre, Professor Istvan Kezsmarki, Professor Ivo Mueller, Dr Stephan Karl, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Budapest University of Technology and Economics:  'Validation and optimization of a portable magneto-optical device for malaria diagnosis'-  $15,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Katharine Howell, Dr Boris Baer, Dr Tamara Hartke, Professor Andreas Brune, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology:  'Investigating the unique gut bacteria of endemic Australian termite species ‑ a potential source of novel cellulases for biofuel'- $19,300 (2014)

Sandra Garrido, Waldo Garrido, Professor Tuomas Eerola, Macquarie University, University of Durham, ARC Centre for the History of Emotions:  'Music and Depression:  Measuring musical features and their impact on mood in historical music and contemporary'-  $12,000 (2014)

Professor Hans‑Gerhardt Meurer, Dr Se-heon Oh, Professor Claude Carignan, Professor Thomas Jarrett, Professor Simon Arridge, Mr Zheng Zheng, Mr Keoikantse Mogotsi, Johns Hopkins University, University of Cape Town, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research:  'A Dynamical Survey of Large Galaxies'- $10,000 (2014)

Winthrop Professor Paul Low, Professor Richard Nichols, Professor George Koutsantonis, Professor Martin Saunders, Dr Thomas Becker, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Liverpool:  'Towards an Australian Centre for Single Molecular Electronic Measurements'- $17,040 (2014)

Dr Matthias Leopold, Assistant Professor Deirdre Gleeson, Dr Gavan McGrath, Prof Steven Banwart, Prof Sue Brantley, School of Earth and Environment, University of Sheffield, Pennsylvania State University:  'The 'Critical Zone Concept' in the southern hemisphere ‑ an international workshop'- $10,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Hayley Christian, Prof Jasper Schipperijn, Sarah Foster, Professor Stewart Trost, Associate Professor Lisa Wood, Ms Charlotte Klinker, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, School of Population Health, Central Queensland University, University of Queensland, University of Southern Denmark:  'Environmental influences on health and wellbeing in the early years:  Collaboration, data sharing and new measurement methods to advance the field'-  $10,145 (2014)

Associate Professor Ramin Rafiei, Professor Shekhar Bhansali, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Florida International University:  'Development of high density micro CITs for mass spectrometry'-  $15,000 (2014)

Associate Professor Meng Ji, Prof Ayumo Yatsutomi, Professor Hou Min, Professor Glenn Hook, School of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, University of Tokyo, Communication University of China:  'A digital study of environmental issues in Australia, British China and Japanese media'-  $16,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Peter Metaxas, Associate Professor Adekunle Adeyeye, Junjia Ding, School of Physics, National University of Singapore:  'Magnonic Nanostructures for Bio-label Detection'- $9,750 (2014)

Associate Professor Robert McLaughlin, A/Prof Caroline Boudoux, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal:  'The next generation 'microscope-in-a-needle':  Fluorescence + optical coherence tomography to find cancer'- $15,000 (2014)

Dr Luke Davies, Professor Malcolm Bremer, Professor Mark Birkinshaw, Dr Elizabeth Stanway, Kate Husband, University of Bristol, University of Warwick, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research:  'Exploring the early Universe:  Galaxy evolution, large-scale structure and local analogues'- $5,000 (2014)

Mathew Welch, Dr Sophie Evison, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, University of Leeds:  'Resistance is futile:  epigenetic impacts of parasite resistance and the consequences for fitness in the honeybee'- $13,000 (2014)

Dr Attila Popping, Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom, Columbia University, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research:  'The deepest search for Hydrogen'-       $16,260 (2014)

Dr Gemma McLeod, Winthrop Professor Karen Simmer, Professor Neena Modi, Dr Anthony Reeder, Liz Nathan, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (00012), School of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Women's and Infants' Health, Imperial College London:  'Metabolomics after preterm birth ‑ A proof of concept study'-  $10,000 (2014)

Dr Rae-Chi Huang, Associate Professor Graham Burdge, Associate Professor Vincent Jaddoe, Associate Professor Wendy Oddy, Dr Elizabeth Davis, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of Southampton, Erasmus Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam:  'Early life programming of childhood obesity'-  $15,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Claire Johnson, Assistant Professor Angela Ives, Professor Geoff Mitchell, Professor Patsy Yates, Dr Peta McVey, School of Surgery, Queensland University of Technology, University of Sydney, University of Queensland:  'Development of a national minimal dataset to improve the quality and safety of end of life care in the community'- $10,000 (2014)

Dr Aaron Robotham, A/Prof James Taylor, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Waterloo:  'Galaxy Dodgems:  Exploring Merger Parameter Space'- $8,660 (2014)

Keith Godfrey, Professor Vikas Mehrotra, UWA Business School, University of Alberta:  'Merger forensics:  empirical investigation of anonymous paired security trading around company mergers and acquisitions'-$10,000 (2014)

Associate Professor Loretta Baldassar, Professor Farida Fozdar, Associate Professor Meng Ji, Dr Majella Kilkey, Dr Neil Lunt, Dr Laura Merla, Professor D Edwards, Dr Roberta Raffaeta, Dr Hariz Hallilovic, Dr Anita Harris, Dr Raelene Wilding, Dr Nonja Peters, School of Social Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Monash University, University of Sheffield, University of York, La Trobe University, University of Trento, Université Catholique de Louvain, Loughborough University:  'Mobilities and belonging:  Sustaining families and communities in transnational settings'-   $15,000 (2014)

Professor Ryan Lister, Dr Ozren Bogdanovich, Professor Jose Gomez‑Skarmeta, Dr Michiel Vermeulen, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, Spanish National Research Council, Centro Adaluz de Biologia del Desarrollo (CABD), Universitaire Medisch Centrum Utrecht:  'Evolutionary and mechanistic properties of the unique brain epigenome'- $20,000 (2014)

Dr Thomas Wernberg, Mr Thibaut de Bettignies, Professor Isabel Pinto, Professor Dominic Davoult, Dr Pascal Riera, Dr Hartvig Christie, Dr Kjell Norderhaug, Professor Stein Fredriksen, School of Plant Biology, University of Paris 6, Pierre and Marie Curie, University of Oslo, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, CIIMAR ‑ University of Porto:  'Latitudinal and Inter-hemispherical network in Kelp ecophysiology.  (LINK)'-  $20,000 (2014)

Dr Renee Firman, Dr Paco Garcia‑Gonzalez, School of Animal Biology, Spanish National Research Council:  'Adaptive sex allocation in a polyandrous mammal'- $17,000 (2014)

Bi-Qing For, Dr Andres Piatti, Professor Richard de Grijs, Dr Peter Anders, Chinese Academy of Science, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Peking University, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba:  'Probing galaxy evolution and formation via the Magellanic Clouds Survey'-$9,620 (2014)

Dr Jeffrey Hansen, Dr Britt Raubenheimer, Dr Steve Elgar, School of Earth and Environment, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:  'Beach and surfzone circulation and sediment dynamics'- $16,000 (2014)

Winthrop Professor Michael Tobar, Dr David Reilly, School of Physics, University of Sydney:  'New low-temperature technology for precision quantum measurement'-  $19,920 (2014)

Stephen Parker, Assistant Professor Gray Rybka, School of Physics, University of Washington:  'High frequency searches for cold dark matter axions'- $10,500 (2014)

Dr Tamara Hartke, Dr Thomas Bourguignon, Dr Boris Baer, Professor Theo Evans, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, National University of Singapore:  'Quantifying costs and benefits of helping ‑ Hamilton's rule in termites'- $10,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Sascha Schediwy, Professor Simon Garrington, Dr Giuseppe Marra, School of Physics, University of Manchester, National Physical Laboratory:  'A clock for the Square Kilometre Array'-  $15,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Jean‑Michel Le Floch, Dr Thomas Volz, Dr Nitin Nand, Dr Carlo Bradac, School of Physics, Macquarie University:  '3D tomography technique of microwave field using NV centered nanodiamond'- $13,200  2014)

Winthrop Professor David Sampson, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Institute of Photonic Technology - Jena:  'Identification of vulnerable plaques in atherosclerosis by combining Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography in an endoscopic probe'- $8,000 (2014)

Professor Ajmal Mian, Dr Faisal Shafait, Assistant Professor Bernard Ghanem, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology:  'Biomass estimation of fish in the wild'- $15,000 (2014)

Professor Kit Wong, Associate Professor Herbert Iu, Professor Defeng Huang, Associate Professor Wai Kwong Lau, Professor Zhaoyang Dong, Professor David Hill, Professor Fushauan Wen, Professor Deqiang Gan, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Sydney, Zhejiang University:  'Cyber security assessment and frequency enhancement of smart grid'-      $10,000 (2014)

UWA UQ BILATERAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION AWARD

Dr Natasha Banning, Dr Talitha Santini, Dr Longbin Huang, Associate Professor Daniel Murphy, Dr Xiaofang Li, School of Earth and Environment, University of Queensland, Alcoa World Alumina Australia:  'Rehabilitation in hostile environments:  identifying transitional states in the below-ground ecology of mine tailings and residues under revegetation (UWA Led)'-  $16,000 (2014)

Professor Alison Bartlett, Dr Margaret Henderson, Assistant Professor Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray, Jessica Taylor, Anna Bautista, Suzanne Srdarov, Dr Michelle Walker, Dr Melissa Harper, Jo Belsey, School of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Queensland:  'Social Memory and Histories of Feminism (UWA Led)'- $15,000 (2014)

Winthrop Professor Michael Tobar, Dr Maxim Goryachev, Professor Arkaday Federov, Jeremy Bourhill, Daniel Creedon, Kirill Afanasyev, Dr Markus Jerger, School of Physics, University of Queensland:  'Measuring and Manipulating Sound at the Quantum Limit. (UWA Led)'-            $17,000 (2014)

Winthrop Professor Karam Singh, Dr Lars Kamphuis, A/Professor David Edwards, Dr Jacqueline Batley, University of Queensland, UWA Institute of Agriculture (IOA):  'Genomic approaches to explore plant-insect interactions (UWA Led)'-  $18,500 (2014)

Jesse Young, A/Prof Nicholas Lennox, Dr Kate van Dooren, Professor David Preen, Dr Diane Arnold‑Reed, School of Population Health, University of Queensland:  'Health Service utilisation in Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the first two years after release from prison. (UWA Led)'- $17,000 (2014)

Dr Alan Aitken, A/Professor Lutz Gross, Cihan Altinay, School of Earth and Environment, University of Queensland:  'A methodology of very large-scale gravity inversion to inform Earth-modelling (UWA Led)'-  $15,000 (2014)

Assistant Professor Hayley Christian, Sarah Foster, Professor Stewart Trost, Dr Nicola Burton, Professor Wendy Brown, Associate Professor Michael Rosenberg, Paula Hooper, Ms Clover Maitland, School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, School of Population Health, University of Queensland:  'The environmental influences on health and wellbeing:  Collaboration, data sharing and new measurement methods to advance the field (UWA Led)'-  $18,000 (2014)

Associate Professor Anas Ghadouani, Professor Zhiguo Yuan, Associate Professor Marco Ghisalberti, Professor Bing‑Jie Ni, Dr Elke Reichwaldt, Professor Jurg Keller, Professor Keshab Sharma, School of Environmental Systems Engineering, University of Queensland:  'Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions in Aquatic Systems:  Development of a collaborative framework for strategic research (UWA Led)'-      $18,000 (2014)

Winthrop Professor Stephen Powles, Assistant Professor Roberto Busi, Professor John Christopher, School of Plant Biology, University of Queensland:  'Can frost tolerance be induced in wheat plants?  A 100 million dollar question (UWA Led)'- $10,000 (2014)

Winthrop Professor Andries Fourie, Professor David Williams, School of Civil and Resource Engineering, University of Queensland:  'Combatting the legacy:  control of contaminants from tailings storage facilities (UWA Led)'-           $5,000 (2014)

Winthrop Professor Dongke Zhang, Professor Victor Rudolph, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland:  ' Advanced technologies for bioenergy and biofuel (UWA Led)'- $10,000 (2014)

Dr Matthew Piggott, Associate Professor Craig Williams, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Queensland:  'Chemical and biochemical profiling of the anti-cancer marine natural product, alpkinidine (UWA Led)'-  $10,000 (2014)

Associate Professor Eric Tohver, Dr Sergei Pisarevskiy, Dr Gideon Rosenbaum, School of Earth and Environment, University of Queensland:  'Orogenic bending and the sedimentary record;  closing the loop of sediment source and tectonic uplift (UWA Led)'- $15,540 (2014)

UWA UQ BILATERAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION AWARD EX UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Dr Luca Asmonti, Dr David Pritchard, Assistant Professor Lara‑Louisa O'Sullivan, Michael Champion, School of Humanities, University of Queensland, 'Cultural perceptions of violence in the Hellenistic world (UQ Led)'-$16,000  (2014)

Dr Lee Barber, Associate Professor Catherine Elliott, Professor Roslyn Boyd, Assistant Professor Siobhan Reid, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Queensland:  'Validation of a freehand ultrasound system for morphological measures of the calf muscle in young children with cerebral palsy (UQ Led)'-  $7,000 (2014)

Dr Zhongwei Chen, Dr Christopher Leonardi, Professor Jishan Liu, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland:  'Impact of coal-fluid interaction on the effectiveness of fracturing during coal seam gas drainage (UQ Led)'- $10,000 (2014)

Dr Christofer Clemente, Winthrop Professor Philip Withers, School of Animal Biology, Curtin University of Technology, University of Queensland, University of Tasmania:  'How do echidnas handle the cold?  Development and application of cutting edge technology to determine how echidnas exploit their environment for thermoregulation (UQ Led)'- $15,678 (2014)

Dr Diana Fisher, Professor Leigh Simmons, Assistant Professor Harriet Mills, School of Animal Biology, University of Queensland:  'Evolutionary ecology of male reproduction in arid zone mammal with an extreme life history (UQ Led)'-$18,000 (2014)

Associate Professor Roy Hall, Associate Professor Cheryl Johansen, Dr Jody Peters, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Queensland:  'Technologies to enhance the discovery and surveillance of vector-borne viruses (UQ Led)'-$15,400 (2014)

Dr Katharine Irvine, Professor George Yeoh, Assistant Professor Caryn Elsegood, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Queensland:  'Human liver progenitor cell characterisation, isolation and manipulation (UQ Led)'-  $14,000 (2014)

A/Professor Catherine Lovelock, Winthrop Professor Carlos Duarte, Professor John Pandolfi, University of Queensland, UWA Oceans Institute, Boston University, Massachusetts, National Council for Research and Technology:  'Fixing Nature:  A critical account of our struggles to address problems in the coastal marine environment (UQ Led)'-  $15,000 (2014)

Doctor Tiina Manne, Dr Joseph Dortch, School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland:  'Methodological and Quantitative approaches to Australasian zooarchaeology and taphonomy (UQ Led)'-  $10,000 (2014)

Dr Katherine O'Brien, Winthrop Professor Gary Kendrick, Mr Matthew Adams, Dr Renae Hovey, Associate Professor Matthew Hipsey, Louise Bruce, Professor Ryan Lowe, School of Plant Biology, University of Queensland:  'Assessment of carbon partitioning and storage in seagrass ecosystems using mathematical models validated across multiple latitudes and species (UQ Led)'- $15,000 (2014)

Professor John Quiggin, Associate Professor Graeme Doole, Mr David Adamson, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Queensland:  'Coal seam gas and the precautionary principal (UQ Led)'-  $6,799 (2014)

Dr Karl Rosengren, Dr Joshua Mylne, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Queensland:  'How do sunflowers produce both a seed storage protein and a potent trypsin inhibitor from the same gene? (UQ Led)'- $8,900 (2014)

Dr Thomas Sigler, Assistant Professor Kirsten Martinus, Professor Matthew Tonts, Associate Professor Glen Searle, School of Earth and Environment, University of Queensland:  'The Australian Urban Network:  Understanding the dynamics of cities by industry (UQ Led)'- $14,000 (2014)

Professor Ranjeny Thomas, Professor Mariapia Degli-Esposti, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Queensland, Lions Eye Institute Ltd:  'Chlamydia induced uveitis in the SKG mouse model of Spondyloarthropathy (UQ Led)'- $14,000 (2014)

Professor Bernard Degnan, Associate Professor Peta Clode, Dr Jeremy Shaw, Professor John Drennan, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (00012), University of Queensland:  'How do molluscs get calcium to their shells? (UQ Led)'- $19,967 (2014)

WA BOTANIC GARDENS AND PARKS AUTHORITY (KINGS PARK)

Winthrop Professor Johannes Lambers, Dr Kingsley Dixon, Sir David Read, School of Plant Biology, WA Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority (Kings Park):  'The role of mycorrhizal fungi in the nutrition of temperate terresrial orchids'-$111,736 (2013-16)

WA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION EX WA MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE (WAMSI)

Dr Scott Whiting, Associate Professor Nicola Mitchell, Dr Oliver Berry, School of Animal Biology, WA Department of Environment and Conservation, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research:  'Key Biological Indices Required to Understand and Manage Nesting Sea Turtles Along the Kimberley Coast'-  $45,000 (2012-14)

WA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Winthrop Professor Gary Hulse, Hanh Ngo, Associate Professor Kellie Bennett, Erin Kelty, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Fresh Start:  'Telethon New Childrens Hospital Research Fund ‑ Effects of Maternal Use of Opioid Pharmacotherapies on Health Outcomes in Exposed Children'-  $101,000 (2013-14)

WA OFFICE OF SCIENCE INNOVATION COINVESTMENT PROGRAM

Professor Mariusz Martyniuk, Winthrop Professor Lorenzo Faraone, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 'Round 3 ‑ Australian National Fabrication Facility ‑ WA Node'- $150,000 (2013-14)

WATER CORPORATION WA

Winthrop Professor Barry Lehane, School of Civil and Resource Engineering:  'Improving Foundation Design in Australian Residual Soils'-$30,000 (2013)