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.

Biomedical science and human biology

Supervisors

Alex Andrianopoulos

Paolin Rocio Cáceres Vélez

Jessica Dunleavy

Mary Familari

Jane Fenelon

Stephen Frankenberg

Irene Gallego Romero

David Gardner

Mark Green

Xinyue Gu

Alexandra Harvey

Ary Hoffmann

Brendan Houston

Patricia Jusuf

Geoffrey McFadden

Moira O'Bryan

Andrew Pask

Marilyn Renfree

Gerard Tarulli

School of BioSciences