ProfessorXavier Conlan

Professor

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts

  • Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts
  • +61 3 522 71416 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I work closely with industry and the Victoria Police in the following fields.

Analytical Chemistry.

Chemical Profiling of Illicit Drug Manufacture.

Crime Scene Analysis

Biomedical Diagnostics

Knowledge Areas

Forensic Chemistry

Illicit Drug Detection

Mass Spectrometry

Multidimensional Chromatography

Multivariate Data Analysis

Biotechnolgy

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Pigments from textile waste for creating sustainable market ready products
    31 Dec 2025 - 30 Dec 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rajkhowa R,
    • Conlan X,
    • Shalliker R,
    • Meyrick T,
    • Taylor M
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP250100351 - $512,458.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Stream 2 Building System and Analytical Capability: Advanced Ingredient Manufacturing and Functional Optimisation for Future Food and Health Applications
    17 Dec 2025 - 1 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    3-1 Provico Australia - $3,657,732.00
  • GRANT
    Novel semio-chemical approach to control the Australian Sheep Blowfly
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 - LP210200707 - $782,714.00
  • GRANT
    Novel semio-chemical approach to control the Australian Sheep Blowfly
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Australian Wool Innovation Limited - $300,000.00
  • GRANT
    10X Genomics PhD Stipends
    28 Dec 2023 - 30 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Xavier Conlan
    Chapel & York US Foundation, Inc - $120,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Investigating chemical cues as a potential management option for the Northern Pacific seastar - Phase 2.
    1 Dec 2023 - 29 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry - C12953 - $144,971.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Investigating chemical cues as a potential management option for the northern Pacific seastar.
    5 Aug 2022 - 29 Jul 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry - C10824 - $111,030.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Development of a non-reatogenic human Q fever Vaccine
    1 May 2020 - 30 Apr 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Defence Materials Technology Centre - 10.85 - $139,085.00
  • GRANT
    Investigating the role of phenylacetic acid in the biosynthesis of scopolamine by commercial Duboisia species.
    8 Apr 2019 - 6 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Alkaloids of Australia - INT-0602 - $20,500.00
  • GRANT
    Enhancing the flavour of farmed fish through dietary innovation
    1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP170100909 - $346,515.87
  • GRANT
    Enhancing the flavour of farmed fish through dietary innovation
    15 Jun 2018 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    Ridley AgriProducts - $150,000.00
  • GRANT
    Enhancing the flavour of farmed fish through dietary innovation
    15 Jun 2018 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    Humpty Doo Barramundi Pty Ltd - $30,000.00
  • GRANT
    DNA transfer: data collection and validation to assist activity-level assessments
    6 Nov 2017 - 6 Nov 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Xavier Conlan
    Victoria Police Grant - Research - $172,500.00
  • GRANT
    Mechanisms underlying chemical signalling in the sea
    27 Mar 2017 - 26 Mar 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Conlan X,
    • Kennington W
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP170103290 - $92,122.00
  • GRANT
    Microfluidic Separation Science: Innovative Technology for Characterising Complex Chemical Systems
    6 Apr 2014 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP140100439 - $341,184.28
  • GRANT
    Identification and Isolation of New Pharmaceutical Opiate Analogues: Today's Problems Tomorrow's Products
    1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP130100681 - $218,264.56
  • GRANT
    Identification and Isolation of New Pharmaceutical Opiate Analogues: Today's Problems Tomorrow's Products
    1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    Sun Pharmaceautical Industries (Australia) Pty Ltd - $138,000.00
  • GRANT
    Identification and Isolation of Impurities in the Opiate Extraction Process: Today's Problems Tomorrow's Products
    1 Jul 2011 - 31 Dec 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    GlaxoSmithKlein Research-Grant - DUPS2010 - $40,000.00
  • GRANT
    Anti-inflammatory and chrondoprotective Effects of Constituent 4
    19 Nov 2007 - 18 Nov 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kanwar J,
    • Conlan X,
    • Parratt A
    Interpath Grant - Research - The Trustee for BRIGHT FAMILY TRUST - $160,000.00
  • GRANT
    Initial Analysis and Reporting of samples supplied by Interpath
    1 May 2007 - 30 Jun 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Conlan X,
    • Parratt A,
    • Nicholson G
    Interpath Grant - Research - The Trustee for BRIGHT FAMILY TRUST - $15,340.00
  • GRANT
    Grains Bioactive Discovery Phase One: Literature review and preliminary chemicals analysis
    24 Jul 2006 - 12 Feb 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    CRC_GF Cooperative Research Centre_Grainfoods - $45,000.00