Medicine and Biotechnology
Postgraduate Supervision
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
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Nutrition related to hypertension and bone health |
Food Sciences; lipids and fat soluble vitamins; functional foods and human health
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Muscle metabolism during exercise - gender and age effects; |
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Mitochondrial development during exercise/disease; musculoskeletal health; muscle atrophy/hypertrophy
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Metabolic syndrome, abdominal adiposity and insulin resistance, diabetes, nutritional epidemiology and glycaemic index |
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Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus |
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Psychiatry; mood disorders; mental health treatment and outcomes; psychiatric epidemiology; biomarkers in mental health; primary prevention of mental illness |
Nanomedicine; molecular pathology; early cancer detection, cancer stem cells, multi-drug resistance, lab-on-a-chip, aptamers, nanoliposomes, targeted cancer therapy and molecular imaging |
Socio-economic determinants of health, health workforce, appropriate prescribing, care of the elderly in community settings, health of veterans |
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Infectious disease; HIV infection |
Food Sciences; lipids and fat soluble vitamins; functional foods and human health |
Cytokin signalling, JAK-STAT-SOCS pathway, developmental biology, blood cell development, leukaemia, cancer biology, transcriptional regulation, infectious diseases, innate immunity |
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Surgical audits and surgical outcomes |
Associate Professor Ross Carne The effects of educational environment on course outcomes |
Associate Professor Julie Pasco The Geelong Osteoporosis Study, which generates evidence for defining the risk for osteoporosis and other chronic diseases; population-based cohort and case-control studies |
Clinical Associate Professor Tim Baker Based in Warrnambool Rural emergency medicine; health literacy |
Clinical Assoicate Professor Susan Brumby Based in Hamilton Farmers' health and wellbeing |
Microbiology, infection and immunity with particular emphasis on malaria pathogenesis |
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Functional foods and supplements to treat CVD, obesity, diabetes and the ageing process via a nutrigenomics approach; culturally competent nutrition |
Hypertension, diet and disease, acute renal failure in ICU, chronic renal failure, elderly dialysis, vascular biology, clinical medicine. |
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Musculoskeletal disorders: muscular dystrophy, arthritis. Developmental biology: pathways regulating vertebrate patterning and tissue and organ development. Biochemistry: Biosynthesis, activation and substrate recognition of extracellular matrix remodelling enzymes. |
Metabolic disease; obesity; diabetes signaling and transcription |
Gene expression in cardiovascular and appetite regulation and stress |
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Immune response following viral infection |
Selenoprotiens, oxidative and ER stress responses in skeletal muscle metabolism and regeneration. Role of extracellular matrix remodelling in skeletal muscle regeneration |
Gene regulation in diabetes and |
