Professor

Patrick Tam

FAA FRS FAHMS

Patrick Tam
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Patrick Tam is a world leader in the understanding of early mammalian embryonic development. He pioneered novel embryological and genetic manipulation techniques to study the formation of the basic body plan during embryogenesis and the causes of birth defects using mouse genetic models. A significant achievement of his research is the elucidation of the blueprint of development in early mouse embryos and the construction of a complete fate map for the mouse embryo at gastrulation. It is now possible to trace the developmental history and the lineage relationship of any particular group of cells that contribute to the formation of a specific fetal organ or body part.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS
    • 310503 Developmental Genetics (incl. Sex Determination)
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310903 Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Embryo Development
  • Medical Sciences
  • Regenerative Medicine
  • Stem Cells

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Professor

Peter Koopman

FAA

Peter Koopman
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Peter Koopman is one of Australia’s leading developmental biologists. He is perhaps best known for his role in the discovery of the SRY maleness gene, resulting in 4 Nature papers and regarded as a major breakthrough in molecular genetics. He has continued to discover genes with important roles in development and disease, generating a stellar oeuvre of more than 200 research and conference papers cited more than 5000 times in the literature. Professor Koopman is an energetic spokesperson for Australian science, with outstanding contributions to editorship of international journals, organisation of international meetings, public engagement, teaching and peer review.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Genetics
  • Genomics
  • CRISPR gene editing

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Professor

Ian Hume

AO FAA

Ian Hume
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Ian Hume is a nutritional physiologist who has made major contributions to the digestive physiology of domestic sheep and wild mammals. These include omnivorous bandicoots, leaf-eating possums and gliders, hindgut fermenting wombats, and foregut fermenting kangaroos. His 1982 monograph was the first synthesis of the marsupial field and stimulated much further research, much done by him and his students. This provided for the physiological base for ecological and behavioural studies, and provided the framework for conservation of several endangered marsupial species. His 1999 monograph is a masterly synthesis of marsupial nutrition and has confirmed him as world leader in comparative physiology.

Fields of research

30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES
  • 3003 ANIMAL PRODUCTION

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Animal Biology
  • Biology
  • Digestive Physiology
  • Marsupial Nutrition

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Professor

David Allen

FAA

David Allen
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Allen’s early work culminated in the demonstration that intracellular calcium was the central regulator of activation in the heart. From these fundamental findings, Allen elucidated the role of calcium in the cardiac length-tension relation, unravelled the role of calcium in cardiac ischaemia and identified a new pacemaker current that regulates the heart rate. These studies have become part of the mainstream of cardiac physiology and have been extensively utilised by the pharmaceutical industry in the design of drugs to increase cardiac output and to ameliorate the effects of ischaemia. In parallel studies of skeletal muscle, Allen established that muscle fatigue is primarily caused by failure of intracellular calcium release and the work has contributed to the demise of the lactic acid theory of fatigue. Most recently Allen has discovered that the muscle damage is a consequence of calcium entry through a stretch-activated channel. In a major development with possible therapeutic implications, he has shown that this channel is also important in muscular dystrophy and drugs that block this channel are able to reduce muscle damage.

Expertise type

  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Medical Sciences
  • Physiology

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Professor

Trevor Lamb

FAA FRS

Trevor Lamb
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Trevor Lamb has made major contributions to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which light absorption triggers a neural signal in retinal photoreceptors. He invented the method for recording electrically from isolated photoreceptor cells and discovered rod responses to single photons; he developed a mathematical description of the molecular steps involved in activation; he accounted for light adaptation; and he has provided a molecular description of dark adaptation and retinoid recycling. His accomplishments have been recognised by the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics (1980), election as a Fellow of the Royal Society (1993), and the Alcon Research Institute Award (2003).

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Neuroscience
  • Retinal Photoceptors
  • Visual Receptors

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Professor

David Cook

FAA

David Cook
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Cook is a leading international figure in research on exocrine epithelia. He has made many important contributions to the understanding of the role of ion channels in exocrine gland function, but is particularly known for his more general discovery that epithelial Na+ channels and other transporters are regulated by the intracellular concentrations of Na+ and CI-. Prior to Cook's work, epithelial Na+ channels had been thought to be regulated by the extracellular concentration of Na+. In an elegant and technically impressive series of studies, he showed that these channels were in fact regulated by intracellular Na+ and CI- and elucidated the molecular mechanisms underlying these regulatory systems. His work has led to an important new model for the understanding of how the concentrations of ions such as Na+ and CI- are maintained stable within the cytosol, a model with important implications for the understanding of epithelial function both in health and in disease states such as hypertension and cystic fibrosis. His other major contributions include the demonstration that respiratory pathogens such as influenza virus inhibit the Na+ channels in lung epithelia and the discovery of a novel cytocortical clock that regulates the activity of K+ and CA2+ channels during the cell cycle.

Expertise type

  • Medical Sciences
  • Membrane Transport
  • Membranes
  • Physiology

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Professor

Perry Bartlett

AO FAA

Perry Bartlett
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Perry Francis Bartlett, through his discovery of stem cells in the developing and adult brain of mammals and his recent successful isolation and characterisation of this stem cell, provided the first definitive evidence of the adult brain's capacity to produce new neurons, which has led to a fundamental change of view about the brain's capacity for repair and plasticity. Also, it has allowed the verification of his earlier prescient proposal that stem cells in the brain are pluripotent. Other major discoveries in developmental neurobiology include defining the regulatory actions of FGF-2, LIF and the p75NGF receptor.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3209 NEUROSCIENCES

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Cognitive Science
  • Neurodegenerative Disease
  • Brain Function
  • Nervous System
  • Dementia
  • Brain Development and Behaviour
  • Memory
  • Motor Neurone Disease
  • Neural Development
  • Stem Cells

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Professor

Michael Archer

AM FAA

Michael Archer
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Professor Michael Archer has made important contributions to the anatomy, taxonomy and evolutionary history of Australian marsupials and monotremes. At the enormously rich Riversleigh World Heritage Site, which he developed, he has for 25 years led a large team that has transformed knowledge of mid to late Tertiary Australian vertebrates. From Murgon he described the first early Tertiary Australian mammals and from Lightning Ridge Australia's first Cretaceous mammals. Through his boundless enthusiasm for research, and his knowledge of deep-time transformations in faunal assemblages, he has been a strong advocate of innovative land-use strategies to enhance the survival of Australia's living biota.

Fields of research

37 EARTH SCIENCES
  • 3705 GEOLOGY
    • 370506 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
  • 3799 OTHER EARTH SCIENCES

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Biology
  • Evolution
  • Marsupials
  • Palaeontology

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Emeritus Professor

Andrew Cockburn

FAA

Andrew Cockburn
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Professor Cockburn has an international reputation for his contributions to behavioural ecology and evolutionary theory. He uses Australian species to examine important theoretical questions on how selection operates and how individuals maximise their fitness. He showed the importance of post-fire plant succession for survival of the heath mouse. He used Antechinus to provide unique tests of sex allocation, litter size and sex-biased dispersal. Using genetic probes, he has demonstrated the role of helpers, paternity, cuckoldry, mate selection and life time strategies of both sexes in cooperatively breeding choughs and fairy wrens. His work provides a novel integration of ecology and evolutionary theory.

Expertise type

  • Behavioural Ecology
  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Evolution

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Emeritus Professor

Lesley Rogers

FAA

Lesley Rogers
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Professor Rogers has made outstanding contributions to understanding brain development and behaviour. She discovered lateralisation in the chick forebrain, when lateralisation was still believed to be a unique feature of the human brain. Later it became known that hemispheric specialisation is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Rogers also discovered that lateralisation of visual projections and visual behaviour is caused by exposure of the chick embryo to light just before hatching. The developing chick brain proved to be an excellent model for investigating the influence of hormonal and experiential factors on neural and behavioural development, and memory formation.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3104 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
    • 310499 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
    • 60304 Ethology and Sociobiology
  • 3199 OTHER BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
52 PSYCHOLOGY
  • 5299 Other psychology

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Animal Biology
  • Biology
  • Brain Development and Behaviour
  • Neuroscience

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Conversation with scientist

Professor Lesley Rogers, neurobiologist

Professor Lesley Rogers interviewed by Professor John Bradshaw in 2001. Lesley Rogers was born in Brisbane in 1943. She received a BSc (Hons) from Adelaide University in 1964, where she investigated the physiology of long-necked tortoises.
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