Biomedical science and human biology
Many scientists in the school study humans and human health: how the body develops, how it is affected by mutations, pathogens and the environment, and how it has evolved.
Particular areas of focus are the study of how life begins and carries on to the next generation, and how basic mechanisms of reproduction and development are disrupted by harmful chemicals and pollution in our environment as well as by genetic disorders. We study fundamental genetic mechanisms underlying development, homeostasis, disease, and physiology using powerful biomedical organisms such as fruit flies, zebrafish, marsupials, mouse, and humans themselves. We study how the body is assailed by pathogenic agents such as fungi and mosquito-borne pathogens that cause malaria and dengue fever and explore new strategies to combat these. Finally, we address our place on earth as a species, how our genomes have evolved and how our existing populations are structured.
Supervisors
Alex Andrianopoulos
Microbial and developmental genetics
Alexandra Harvey
Embryonic stem cells
Ary Hoffmann
Pest and environmental adaptation
Andrew Pask
Evolution, development and reproduction
Brendan Houston
Genetics of male infertility, spermatogenesis and sperm function
David Gardner
Reproductive biology
Elizabeth Bromfield
Redox biology, reproduction, germ cells, proteomics, lipid biochemistry
Geoffrey McFadden
Malaria and endosymbiosis
Gerard Tarulli
Reproductive and developmental biology
Jessica Dunleavy
Male reproductive biology, cell biology, spermatogenesis
Jane Fenelon
Reproductive and developmental biology
Mark Green
Reproductive biology
Moira O'Bryan
Male infertility and germ cell biology
Marilyn Renfree
Reproductive and developmental biology
Patricia Jusuf
Neural development and regeneration, and disease modelling and treatment screening
Stephen Frankenberg
Development, reproduction, genomics, genetic biocontrol and synthetic biology
Vanessa R. Marcelino
Ecology of gut microbiomes
Xinyue Gu
Molecular entomology,endosymbionts, environmental stress