Biography
Dr Aaron Schultz completed his PhD at Deakin University in 2011 and held several Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions in Canada and Australia before commencing his Lecturer in Animal Biology position at Deakin University in 2017. Dr Schultz’s multidisciplinary research program is split into two main areas: (1) environmental animal physiology – this program includes the study of solute transport mechanisms involved in osmoregulation, acid-base balance and nutrient uptake in aquatic animals; (2) environmental and human toxicology – this program assesses the behavior, transformation, fate, bioavailability and potential toxicity of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) including nanomaterials and micro/nanoplastics on biological systems. Dr Schultz also serves as the Deputy Chair of the Deakin University Nanosafety Committee, which he led the development of in recent years, and is a HDR coordinator in his School. During his time as HDR coordinator, he has been actively finding ways to improve off-campus and international student engagement with the University and their overall HDR experience. Dr Schultz’s passion for science also extends beyond research and tertiary education, into schools and the community, where he promotes science through a variety of platforms.
Read more on Aaron's profileAwards
2022 - Vice Chancellors Award for International Research Collaboration (Laboratory without Borders team)
2018 - Vice Chancellors Award for International Research Collaboration (Laboratory without Borders team)
2015 - Disease Models and Mechanisms Travelling Fellowship (http://dmm.biologists.org/site/about/fellowships/TF2015.xhtml)
2012 - Recieved “Presidents' Award”, CSZ 2012 Meeting in Sackville, NB, Canada (see link https://csz-scz.ca/wp/award/presidents-award/)
2011 - Canadian Society of Zoologists Travel Award
Helped fund attendance at the ICCPB 2011 Conference in Nagoya, Japan
2011 - Canadian Society of Zoologists Travel Award
Helped fund attendance at the CSZ Meeting in Ottawa, Canada
2007 - Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowship from SEB
Helped fund a research trip to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, BC, Canada
Projects
HDR Student Projects:
Primary supervisor
- Ms Nishat Urmi: Healthy Lakes, Healthy Communities: Understanding emerging contaminants in regional waterways and developing strategies for success.
- Mr Kamal Poudel: Do micro and nanoplastics pose a threat to human health?
- Ms Natasha Yadav: Life cycle analysis of agricultural relevant nanoparticles in marine water
- Mr Anurag Nath: Life cycle analysis of agriculturally relevant nanomaterials in marine environment
- Ms Shweta Gehlout: In vitro and in vivo Toxicology Analysis of Agriculturally Useful Nanoparticles
Associate supervisor
- Ms Monique Adzijovski: Determining biomarkers of chronic thermal stress in fish.
- Ms Georginal Bramwell: Transmissible cancers within bivalves across Australia
- Mr Lalinka Priyashan Bandara Herath Herath Mudiyanselage: Heavy metal sensitive biosensors and common heavy metal toxicity
- Ms Anne-Lise Pascale F. Gerard: Competition, ecological and evolutionary interactions of two transmissible cancers
- Mr Samuel Eke: The generation, adsorption of organic/inorganic pollutants, and ecotoxicology of micro(nano)plastics
Other Collaborative Projects:
- Investigating the risks of Chemicals of Emerging Concern (CECs) to environmental and human health.
- Assessing the toxicity risks of micro and nanoplastics to freshwater and marine environments.
- Physiology associated with smoltification in Atlantic Salmon
- Using zebrafish embryos to screen the bioavailability and safety of novel new cancer therapeutic compounds.
- Assessing the potential application of copper containing nanomaterials as cancer therapeutics
- Team member of CANECEV: Cancer ecology and evolution; investigating links between pollution and cancer in the environment (please see link for further details: https://canecev.org/)
Publications
Genetic divergence of farmed blue mussels (Mytilus sp.) in Australian waters
G Bramwell, A Schultz, T Madsen, F Thomas, N Macdonald, A Dujon, C Sherman, B Ujvari
(2024), Vol. 578, Aquaculture, C1
The effect of mitochondrial recombination on fertilization success in blue mussels
G Bramwell, A Schultz, G Jennings, U Nini, C Vanbeek, P Biro, C Beckmann, A Dujon, F Thomas, C Sherman, B Ujvari
(2024), Vol. 913, Science of the Total Environment, C1
Hiske Klaassen, Sophie Tissot, Jordan Meliani, Justine Boutry, Anna Miltiadous, Peter Biro, David Mitchell, Beata Ujvari, Aaron Schultz, Frédéric Thomas, Antoine Dujon
(2024), Vol. 291, pp. 1-11, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, C1
Georgina Bramwell, Emi Ab Rahim, Aaron Schultz, Antoine Dujon, Kim Weston, Brett Ingram, Sam Jahangard, Frédéric Thomas, Beata Ujvari, Craig Sherman
(2024), Vol. 3, pp. 51-62, Hydrobiology, Basel, Switzerland, C1
Ayushi Priyam, Luis Afonso, Aaron Schultz, Amit Dinda, Pushplata Singh
(2023), pp. 313-324, Environmental Science: Advances, London, Eng., C1
Ayushi Priyam, Luis Afonso, Aaron Schultz, Amit Dinda, Pushplata Singh
(2023), pp. 1-18, Environmental Science: Advances, London, Eng., C1
Hari Kalathil Balakrishnan, Aaron Schultz, Soomin Lee, Richard Alexander, Ludovic Dumee, Egan Doeven, Dan Yuan, Rosanne Guijt
(2023), pp. 1-12, Lab on a Chip, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Shweta Gehlout, Shweta Gehlout, Ayushi Priyam, Ayushi Priyam, Drishti, Drishti, Luis Afonso, Luis Afonso, Aaron Schultz, Aaron Schultz, Pushplata Singh, Pushplata Singh
(2022), pp. 15-15, Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Environmental Science, London, Eng., B1
A Priyam, P Singh, L Afonso, A Schultz
(2022), Vol. 9, pp. 1364-1380, Environmental Science: Nano, Cambridge, England, C1
A Priyam, P Singh, L Afonso, A Schultz
(2022), Vol. 25, pp. 1-14, NanoImpact, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Ayushi Priyam, natasha Yadav, Pallavolu Reddy, luis Afonso, Aaron Schultz, Pushplata Singh
(2022), Vol. 8, pp. 1-11, Heliyon, AMsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Cancer Susceptibility as a Cost of Reproduction and Contributor to Life History Evolution
A Dujon, J Boutry, S Tissot, J Lemaître, A Boddy, A Gérard, A Alvergne, A Arnal, O Vincze, D Nicolas, M Giraudeau, M Telonis-Scott, A Schultz, P Pujol, P Biro, C Beckmann, R Hamede, B Roche, B Ujvari, F Thomas
(2022), Vol. 10, pp. 1-18, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Lausanne, Switzerland, C1
Telomeres, the loop tying cancer to organismal life-histories
B Ujvari, N Raven, T Madsen, M Klaassen, A Dujon, A Schultz, L Nunney, J Lemaître, M Giraudeau, F Thomas
(2022), Molecular Ecology, England, C1
A Priyam, N Yadav, P Reddy, L Afonso, A Schultz, P Singh
(2022), Vol. 2, pp. 462-476, ACS Agricultural Science and Technology, Washington, D.C., C1
G Bramwell, A Schultz, C Sherman, M Giraudeau, F Thomas, B Ujvari, A Dujon
(2021), Vol. 775, Science of the Total Environment, C1
A Priyam, L Afonso, A Schultz, P Singh
(2021), Vol. 23, NanoImpact, Netherlands, C1
Rare and unique adaptations to cancer in domesticated species: An untapped resource?
F Thomas, M Giraudeau, N Dheilly, F Gouzerh, J Boutry, C Beckmann, P Biro, R Hamede, J Abadie, S Labrut, M Bieuville, D Misse, G Bramwell, A Schultz, G Le Loc'h, O Vincze, B Roche, F Renaud, T Russell, B Ujvari
(2020), Vol. 13, pp. 1605-1614, Evolutionary Applications, C1
V Ortega, M Cameron, J Stafford, G Goss, J Donald, A Schultz
(2020), Vol. 7, pp. 1912-1926, Environmental Science: Nano, C1
Transmissible Cancers in an Evolutionary Perspective
A Dujon, R Gatenby, G Bramwell, N MacDonald, E Dohrmann, N Raven, A Schultz, R Hamede, A Gérard, M Giraudeau, F Thomas, B Ujvari
(2020), Vol. 23, iScience, United States, C1
C van Rijn, P Jones, A Schultz, B Evans, S McCormick, L Afonso
(2020), Vol. 529, Aquaculture, C1
Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Anticancer Adaptations
J Boutry, A Dujon, A Gerard, S Tissot, N Macdonald, A Schultz, P Biro, C Beckmann, R Hamede, D Hamilton, M Giraudeau, B Ujvari, F Thomas
(2020), Vol. 23, iScience, United States, C1
A Priyam, R Das, A Schultz, P Singh
(2019), Vol. 9, Scientific Reports, England, C1
A Clifford, N Bury, A Schultz, J Ede, B Goss, G Goss
(2017), Vol. 247, pp. 107-115, General and Comparative Endocrinology, United States, C1
A Quijada-Rodriguez, A Schultz, J Wilson, Y He, G Allen, G Goss, D Weihrauch
(2017), Vol. 220, pp. 3270-3279, Journal of Experimental Biology, England, C1
Uptake and toxicity of copper oxide nanoparticles in C6 glioma cells
A Joshi, W Rastedt, K Faber, A Schultz, F Bulcke, R Dringen
(2016), Vol. 41, pp. 3004-3019, Neurochemical research, Berlin, Germany, C1
The role of acid-sensing ion channels in epithelial Na+ uptake in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio)
A Dymowska, D Boyle, A Schultz, G Goss
(2015), Vol. 218, pp. 1244-1251, Journal of experimental biology, Cambridge, Eng., C1-1
A Schultz, P Jones, T Toop
(2014), Vol. 37, pp. 219-228, Journal of fish diseases, London, England, C1
Phosphate absorption across multiple epithelia in the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)
A Schultz, S Guffey, A Clifford, G Goss
(2014), Vol. 307, pp. R643-R652, American journal of physiology : regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology, Bethesda, Md., C1-1
Aaron Schultz, David Boyle, Danuta Chamot, Kimberly Ong, Kevin Wilkinson, James McGeer, Geoff Sunahara, Greg Goss
(2014), Vol. 11, pp. 207-226, Environmental chemistry, Clayton, Vic, C1-1
A Dymowska, A Schultz, S Blair, D Chamot, G Goss
(2014), Vol. 307, pp. C255-C265, American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, United States, C1-1
Silver nanoparticles inhibit sodium uptake in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
A Schultz, K Ong, T MacCormack, G Ma, J Veinot, G Goss
(2012), Vol. 46, pp. 10295-10301, Environmental science & technology, Easton, Pa., C1-1
A Schultz, S Shigdar, P Jones, A Ward, T Toop
(2011), Vol. 312, pp. 19-25, Aquaculture, Amsterdam, Netherlands, C1
C Wood, A Schultz, S Munger, P Walsh
(2009), Vol. 212, pp. 684-692, Journal of experimental biology, Cambridge, England, C1
A Schultz, J Healy, P Jones, T Toop
(2008), Vol. 280, pp. 45-52, Aquaculture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
The battle of tumours: growth kinetics and competition of DFT1 and DFT2
A/Prof Beata Ujvari, Dr Aaron Schultz, Dr Matthew McKenzie
DPIPWE Dr Eric Guiler Tasmanian Devil Research Grant
- 2021: $25,000
Industry and Other Funding
Contagious diseases in Australian bivalves
Ms Georgina Bramwell, A/Prof Beata Ujvari, Dr Aaron Schultz, A/Prof Craig Sherman, Dr Antoine Dujon
Ecological Society Australia - Student Research Award
- 2021: $6,695
STUDENT APPLICATION - Mitochondrial inheritance and recombination in wild and farmed mussels
A/Prof Beata Ujvari, Ms Georgina Bramwell, Dr Aaron Schultz, A/Prof Craig Sherman, Dr Antoine Dujon
ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795
- 2023: $500
Supervisions
Anurag Nath
Thesis entitled: Ecosafety Assessment of Phosphorous-based Nanofertilizers
Doctor of Philosophy (Biol & Chem), School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Natasha Yadav
Thesis entitled: Behaviour and Toxicity Assessment of Iron-based Nanofertilizers in Aquatic Ecosystem
Doctor of Philosophy (Biol & Chem), School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Shweta Gehlout
Thesis entitled: ECOSAFETY ASSESSMENT OF IRON OXIDE NANOFERTILIZERS
Doctor of Philosophy (Life & Env), School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Ayushi Priyam
Thesis entitled: Environmental and human toxicity assessment of Phosphorus-based nanomaterials
Doctor of Philosophy (Life & Env), School of Life and Environmental Sciences