Welcome to ARI-TOX – the home of the Australian Rivers Institute’s Toxicology Research Group

ARITOX is a group of researchers from Griffith University‘s Australian Rivers Institute whose research focuses on the presence, fate and impacts of toxic contaminants in the aquatic environment, including trace organic contaminants (like pharmaceuticals and personal care products, pesticides, industrial compounds, hormones), metals and other elements and their effects on living systems in general (using ethical alternatives to animal testing such as in vitro and in silico testing models) but also monitoring impact in our endangered wildlife such as turtles, sharks, dugongs, fish, frogs and other aquatic life.

This requires a trans-disciplinary approach, and our research team includes environmental toxicologist, biologists, ecologists, modellers, chemists, data scientists and systems biologists. We also collaborate with colleagues from around the globe, sharing insights into how to ensure a sustainable and healthy future for all living organisms on the planet. We are a highly collaborative bunch, and would love to hear from you if you would like to collaborate. Either head over to our Team to find out who we are, or Contact us. In addition, if you are a student interested in a PhD, Masters, Honours or other undergraduate research project, head over to our Opportunities page to find out what is happening at the moment.

Our research group, established in 2009, is primarily located in the modern PC2 laboratories in the Cities Research Institute building (G51) at the Griffith University Gold Coast campus, giving us access to state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, including a wide range of cell lines (from all domains of life) and reporter gene assays, cell culture facilities, pipetting robots, liquid nitrogen storage banks, multi-mode microplate readers, epifluorescent microscopes, Imaging-PAM, flow cytometers and more. If you are curious and would like to find out more about our work, we would love to show you around the labs. Contact us for more details.