| Discipline of Anatomy & Histology |
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| NAME | Oxidative-stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in the initiation of Alzheimer-like cytoskeletal abnormalities |
| Vladimir Balcar | Metabolomics of mental disease: effects of clozapine on brain metabolome |
| Maria Byrne | Biology of fertilisation and early development of embryos |
| Tailoi Chan-Ling | The retina in developmental neurobiology and neuropathology |
| Nicholas Cole | - Embryonic origins of vertebrate muscle
- Determining the position and timing of limb initiation
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| Karen Cullen | - Immunohistochemical study of the microvasculature and inflammation in Alzheimer's Disease brain tissue
- Chronological development of cytoskeletal abnormalities in the Alzheimer's Disease brain
- Pathogenesis of motor neuron disease
- Chronological development of cytoskeletal abnormalities in the Alzheimer's Disease brain
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| Denise Donlon | Description and analysis of a male skeleton with Marfan Syndrome (MfS) |
| Cristobal Dos Remedios | Breast cancer: how the cellular immune system responds to metastasis |
| Bogdan Dreher | Functional organisation of the visual system |
| Michelle Gerke | Changes to nociceptors in response to nerve injury leading to chronic pain |
| Luke Henderson | Brain changes associated with chronic pain in humans |
| Kevin Keay | Injury, disability and chronic pain research |
| Frank Lovicu | - Normal lens biology
- Lens pathology (cataract)
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| Chris Murphy | Female reproduction and structural cell biology |
| Juergen Reichardt | Human molecular genetics of cancer and atherosclerosis |
| Discipline of Pathology |
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| Bob Bao | - Sudden Death in Young Australian CSI (Sydney)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
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| Stuart Cordwell | - Peptide biomarkers of myocardial ischemia
- The role of calcium overload in myocardial I/R injury
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| Qihan Dong | Arachidonic acid pathway in prostate cancer |
| Georges Grau | - Assessing microparticles as effectors in the microvascular lesion of cerebral malaria
- Investigating mechanisms of microparticle production by microvascular endothelial cells and defining clinically useful inhibitors.
- Defining the implication of hypoxia in the pathology of cerebral malaria
- Determining the interactions of MP with their target cells in the host
- Deciphering the involvement of TCTP proteins in malarial pathogenesis
- Defining intracellular signalling pathways of microvascular endothelium stimulation by parasite and host cells
- Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of platelet-endothelial interactions
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| Brett Hambly | - Immunological mechanisms in atherosclerosis
- Protein defects causing familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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| Nicholas Hunt | - Understanding a key new enzyme in the kynurenine pathway
- What causes death and disability in bacterial meningitis?
- What controls tryptophan metabolism in endothelial cells? And how does this affect control of blood pressure?
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| Nicholas King | - Changes in gene expression in neurons and microglia in WNV encephalitis
- Infiltrating leukocytes in WNV encephalitis - their role in mortality
- The role of mucosal dendritic cells in controlling virus infection in epithelium
- Maintenance of epithelial barriers in cell defence against virus infection
- The role of Langerhans and dendritic cells in initiating WNV immune responses
- The role of microparticles in the immune response to WNV
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| Jillian Kril | The substrate of memory impairment in Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) |
| Roger Pamphlett | Brain mutations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| Des Richardson | - Development of new iron chelators as novel drugs against cancer
- Transport of nitric oxide in cells and its interaction with iron containing proteins in tumour cells
- The function of the malignant melanoma tumour antigen, melanotransferrin (p97), in tumourigenesis
- The role of iron in the pathogenesis of the crippling neurodegenerative disease, Friedreich's ataxia
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| Roland Stocker | - Role of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in control of blood vessel tone in inflammation
- The role of heme oxygenase as an antioxidant defense
- Control of growth of vascular cells by heme oxygenase1
- The role of heme oxygenase-1 in cerebral malaria infection
- Imaging redox regulation of cellular signaling systems
- Role of cytochrome b5 in the reductive activation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase
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| Paul Witting | Post translational changes to key cardiac proteins in the hearts of diabetic rats after experimental heart attack |
| Bing Yu | Gene copy number in sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| Discipline of Pharmacology |
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| Jonathon Arnold | Why cannabis use promotes psychotic relapse |
| Kellie Charles | Targeting tumour-macrophage interactions |
| Rachel Codd | - Novel histone deacetylase inhibitors
- Capture of bacterial secondary metabolites
- Mechanisms of iron uptake in antarctic bacteria
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| Brian Oliver | - How different are fibroblasts from various lung diseases?
- Can the common cold virus kill you?
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| Discipline of Physiology |
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| Haydn Allbutt | - Development of a new model of Parkinson's Disease
- Investigation into olfaction as an early symptom of Parkinson's Disease
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| David G Allen | The causes of cardiac malfunction in a mouse model of cardiomyopathy |
| Stephen Assinder | Prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia |
| Max Bennett | - The cellular origins of neuropathic pain: glial cells, macrophages and cytokines
- The cellular origins of migraine pain: astrocyte spreading depression
- The cellular origins of central pain sensitisation I: the astrocyte - microglia network
- The cellular origins of central pain sensitisation II: astrocytes, microglia and cytokines
- Pain representation in the brain: the astrocytic model for fMRI and the interpretation of images
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| Simon Carlile | - Human psychophysical studies examining the role of spectral cues produced by the outer ear and head in generating our percept of external auditory space, and the localisation and streaming of auditory objects within that space
- Neural and bioacoustical studies of the mammalian auditory system (guinea pig and ferret)
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| David I Cook | - Use of replication-deficient adenoviruses and retroviruses to investigate control of epithelial sodium channels in epithelia
- Identification of novel regulators of sodium channels
- Use of replication-deficient adenoviruses to investigate regulation of cytosolic calcium
- Characterisation of ClC family chloride channels in salivary and other epithelia
- Investigation of the role of sodium-bicarbonate cotransport in early embryonic development
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| Roger Dampney | Hypothalamic control of cardiovascular function |
| Margot Day | - Role of chloride channels in embryo survival
- Role of ion channels and membrane potential in fertilization
- Ion channel expression and role in embryonic stem cell proliferation and pluripotency
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| Christine Koeppl | - Evolution of the cochlear efferent system
- The basis of fast temporal processing in the cochlea of the barn owl
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| Catherine Leamey | Development and plasticity of the nervous system |
| Rebecca S Mason | - Role of vitamin D and other compounds in the protection of skin cells from UV
- Mechanisms of action of strontium to reduce risk of fracture
- Muscle as a storage site for vitamin D
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| Bronwyn McAllan | - The regulation of reproductive physiology by environmental photoperiod
- The regulation of reproduction and metabolism by photoperiod and temperature
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| Brian Morris | - Mechanisms of longevity
- Embryonic stem cell
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| Brian Morris | Pre-mRNA splicing |
| Chris O'Neill | - Reproduction
- Development
- Stem cells
- Cancer
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| William Phillips | - Cholinesterase inhibitor drugs for treatment of myasthenia gravis: friend or foe?
- Pathogenic mechanism of myasthenia gravis patient anti-MuSK antibodies
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| Dario Protti | - Contrast adaptation
- Plasticity phenomena in the nervous system
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| Atomu Sawatari | - The role of enrichment on the development of the hippocampus
- The importance of Ten_m3 in the wiring of cortico-striatal circuits
- The role of enrichment on the development of the retina
- Reversing the maturation of the hippocampus
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| Samuel Solomon | - Constraints on information flow through the visual thalamus
- Structure-function relationships in the visual thalamus in mice
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| Jonathan Stone | Stability of the central nervous system and degenerative diseases of the retina (retinitis pigmentosa) and brain (dementia) |
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| Alex Bishop | - Role of antibodies in liver transplant rejection
- Role of IL-4 in liver transplant tolerance
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