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NGED members have access to state of the art facilities through their respective research organisation or other institutions. Exchange visits to provide staff and students associated with the Network to access facilities at other organisations will be strongly supported by the NGED with an earmarked allocation from the ARC Research Network funding.

 

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Animal, small (animal models)

Coral Ball, Eldon - ANU, Canberra (Embryonic development in coral)
Miller, David _ JCU, Townsville Cnidarians genomics, dev. biology of cnidarians, evolutionary genetics of corals)
Chick Koblar, Simon - UoA, Adelaide (Chick embryo - in vivo electroporation)
Drosophila Richards, Rob - UoA, Adelaide (Animal models of human genetic disease)
Saint, Rob - ANU, Canberra (Drosophila: genetic analysis, genetic transformation, gene knockout)
Whitelaw, Murray - UoA, Adelaide
Honey Bee Maleszka, Ryszard - ANU, Canberra
Mouse Bertram, John - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Mouseworks - transgenic & knockout mice facility)
Dunwoodie, Sally - VCCRI, Sydney (Mouse embryo culture, gene targeting, notch signalling assay)
Harding, Richard - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Mouseworks - transgenic & knockout mice facility)
Harvey, Richard - VCCRI, Sydney (Cardiac functional analysis in mice, mouse embryo culture)
Heath, Joan - Luwig institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne (Transgenic & knockout mice facility)
Hooper, Stuart - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Mouseworks - transgenic & knockout mice facility)
Little, Melissa - UQ, Brisbane (Mouse kidney explant culture, microinjection into kidney explants)
Morris, Howard - Hanson Institute, Adelaide (GenSA mouse gene knockout and transgenesis facility)
Rathjen, Peter - UoA, Adelaide (Human and mouse stem cell culture facilities, mouse transgenics facility, anitbody production facility)
Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide (Array of cytokine null mutant mouse models and transgenic T-cell receptor mouse models)
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney (Micromanipulation system for cells to whole mouse embryos)
Walker, David - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Mouseworks - transgenic & knockout mice facility, Spiny mouse [acomys caharinis] colony)
Whitelaw, Emma - QIMR, Brisbane (Transgenic mice facility, differential display techniques for identification of variably expressed genes))
Rat Wlodek, Mary - Melbourne Uni
Zebrafish Currie, Peter - VCCRI, Sydney (Zebrafish aquarium, zebrafish embryology & genetics)
Heath, Joan - Luwig institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne (Zebrafish facility)
Koblar, Simon - UoA, Adelaide (Zebrafish facility)
Lardelli, Michael - UoA, Adelaide (Zebrafish facility, transgenic zebrafish, zebrafish models of human disease)
Lieschke, Graham - WEHI, Melbourne (Zebrafish aquarium, Haemopoiesis, Leukaemogenesis)
Richards, Rob - UoA, Adelaide (Animal models of human genetic disease)
Whitelaw, Murray - UoA, Adelaide

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Animal, large / Livestock

Cattle Greenwood, Paul - Beef Industry CofE, UNE, Armidale (Feed intake & weight recording system, systems for characterising cellular development, techniques for collection of tissue samples).
Harper, Greg - Meat and Livestock Australia, Brisbane (Animal science: biochemical genetics & growth and development)
Hill, Jonathan - CSIRO Livestock, Armidale (Nuclear transfer [cloning] in cattle and sheep)
Perry, Viv - UQ, Goondiwindi (Large animal handling facilities 100 cows and calves)
Tellam, Ross - CSIRO Livestock Industries, Brisbane (Large animal facilities, livestock bioinformatics)
Sheep Greenwood, Paul - Beef Industry CofE, UNE, Armidale (Animal genetics and breeding unit and LambPlan)
Hill, Jonathan - CSIRO Livestock, Armidale (Nuclear transfer [cloning] in cattle and sheep)
Moss, Tim - UWA, Perth (Large agricultural research facility for large-scale sheep experiments, ongoing inftrastructural support for the provision of ~800 date-mated pregnant ewes/year)
Perry, Viv - UQ, Goondiwindi (Large animal handling facilities 200 ewes)
Tellam, Ross - CSIRO Livestock Industries, Brisbane (Large animal facilities, livestock bioinformatics)
CAT-scan Greenwood, Paul - Beef Industry CofE, UNE, Armidale
Large animal facility McMillen, Caroline - UniSA, Adelaide (Specialised large animal surgery facility)
Moss, Tim - UWA, Perth (State-of-the-art large animal facility, including surgical theatres, animal laboratories, wet lab)
Perry, Viv - UQ, Goondiwindi (Individual feeding units for nutrition vs developmental trials, Centre of Excellence in examination of bovine sperm morphology)
Tellam, Ross - CSIRO Livestock Industries, Brisbane (Large animal facilities, livestock bioinformatics)
Physiological measurement lab Colditz, Paul - Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital

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Computational facilities, technologies & imaging

Behavioural Testing in Honey Bee Maleszka, Ryszard - ANU, Canberra
Beowolf Computing Cluster Finnegan, Jean - CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra
Bioinformatics Heath, Joan - Luwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne
Brain and Retina Rees, Sandra - Uni Melbourne (Quantitative analysis of fetal brain and retina development following intrauterine exposure)
Cell sorting

Robb, Lorraine - WEHI, Melbourne (High speed flow cytometric cell sorting)
Roberts, Claire - UoA Adelaide (FACS)
Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide (FACS / flow cytometry)
Sinclair, Andrew - MCRI, Melbourne (FACS)
Whitelaw, Emma - QIMR, Brisbane (Flow cytometry)

Cytokine bioassays Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide (ELISA and cytokine bioassays, array of cytokine null mutant mouse models and transgenic T-cell receptor mouse models)
Embryofacial explant culture  
Endocrine Assay Lab McMillen, Caroline - UniSA, Adelaide
Gene targeting Harvey, Richard - VCCRI, Sydney
Immunohistochemistry Rees, Sandra - Uni Melbourne (Immunohistochemistry, tissue culture)
In ovo electroporation Newgreen, Don - MCRI, Melbourne (Developmental biology: neural crest, cell migration, epithelium-mesenchyme transition, carcinoma metastasis)
In situ hybridisation Lardelli, Michael - UoA, Adelaide
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney (High throughput robotic whole mount in situ hybridisation system)
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney (In situ hybridisation, subtraction hybridisation)
Mass Spectrometry Bertram, John - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Structural biology facility with mass spectrometry)
Dziadek, Marie - Garvan Institute, Sydney (Sequenom mass spectrometer)
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney
Tremethick, David - ANU, Canberra
Microarray Bateman, John - MCRI, Melbourne
Campbell, Hugh - ANU, Canberra
Dunwoodie, Sally - VCCRI, Sydney
Dziadek, Marie - Garvan Institute, Sydney
Finnegan, Jean - CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra
Hill, Jonathan - CSIRO Livestock, Armidale

Koblar, Simon - UoA, Adelaide (Hippocampal seizure cDNA microarray slides)
Koopman, Peter - UQ, Brisbane
Lardelli, Michael - UoA, Adelaide (Analysis of gene expression by zebrafish microarray)
Maleszka, Ryszard - ANU, Canberra (Transcriptional profiling using northern blots, real time PCR and microarrays)
Morris, Howard - Hanson Institute, Adelaide
Newgreen, Don - MCRI, Melbourne
Rathjen, Peter - UoA, Adelaide
Richards, Rob - UoA, Adelaide
Saint, Rob - ANU, Canberra
Sinclair, Andrew - MCRI, Melbourne
Tellam, Ross - CSIRO Livestock Industries, Brisbane (CDNA and oligo mircoarray facilities)
Tremethick, David - ANU, Canberra
Whitelaw, Murray - UoA, Adelaide
Wicking, Carol - UQ, Brisbane
Microscopy / Imaging

Bertram, John - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Monash MicroImaging; 5 confocals, 4 TEMs and 1 SEM)
Campbell, Hugh - ANU, Canberra (ANU Electron Microscopy Unit)
Currie, Peter - VCCRI, Sydney
(Microscope imaging inc. laser ablation, transplantation, Iontophoretic rig.)
Harvey, Richard - VCCRI, Sydney (Fluorescence microscopy)
Heath, Joan - Luwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne (Centre for advanced microscopy; fluorescence, confocal, FRET, FLIM)
Hill, Jonathan - CSIRO Livestock, Armidale (Micromanipulation microscopes)
Koopman, Peter - UQ, Brisbane (Confocal & electron microscopes)
Mackie, Eleanor - Uni Melbourne (Scanning & transmission electron microscopy)
Miller, David _ JCU, Townsville (Confocal Mircroscope, BioRad Radiance 2000)
Morris, Howard - Hanson Institute, Adelaide (Adelaide Microscopy, Detmold Family Imaging Centre)
Newgreen, Don - MCRI, Melbourne (Confocal and conventional time lapse imaging)
Rees, Sandra - Uni Melbourne (Electron microscopy)
Robb, Lorraine - WEHI, Melbourne (Confocal microscopy)
Roberts, Claire - UoA Adelaide (Confocal microscope, video image analysis systems)
Saint, Rob - ANU, Canberra (Confocal and deconvolution microspcopy, live imaging)
Sinclair, Andrew - MCRI, Melbourne (Confocal microscopy)
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney (Confocal and fluorescence microscopes)
Tremethick, David - ANU, Canberra (Cellular imaging)
Thompson, Jeremy - UoA, Adelaide (Confocal microscope, quantitative photofluorometric microscope, B.P. telemetry)
Wicking, Carol - UQ, Brisbane (Confocal and electron microscopy)

Mineralised Tissue Histology Mackie, Eleanor - Uni Melbourne
Osteoblast, Myoblast & Chondrocyte Culture Mackie, Eleanor - Uni Melbourne
Proteomics / Protein

Carroll, Bernie - UQ, Brisbane (Proteomics)
Hill, Jonathan - CSIRO Livestock, Armidale
(Proteomics)
Koopman, Peter - UQ, Brisbane (Protein expression facility)
Lardelli, Michael - UoA, Adelaide (Proteomics)
Morris, Howard - Hanson Institute, Adelaide
Newgreen, Don - MCRI, Melbourne (2D-PAGE and MALDI MS)
Saint, Rob - ANU, Canberra (Proteomics)
Tellam, Ross - CSIRO Livestock Industries, Brisbane (Maldi; MS/MS, Q-TOF, TOF-TOF, 2d SDS-PAGE)
Tremethick, David - ANU, Canberra (Protein biophysics)

Real Time PCR Carroll, Bernie - UQ, Brisbane
Mackie, Eleanor - Uni Melbourne
Maleszka, Ryszard - ANU, Canberra (Transcriptional profiling using northern blots, real time PCR and microarrays)
Miller, David _ JCU, Townsville (Corbett RotorGene and ABI 7700)
Richards, Rob - UoA, Adelaide (Real time quantitative PCR)
Roberts, Claire - UoA Adelaide
Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide
Thompson, Jeremy - UoA, Adelaide
Single Muscle Fibre Culture Mackie, Eleanor - Uni Melbourne
Stereology Bertram, John - Monash Uni, Melbourne (for quantifying organ, tissue & cellular structure)
Rees, Sandra - Uni Melbourne (Stereological techniques)
Tissue culture Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide (Tissue and embryo culture facility)
Transgenic Animal Services Koopman, Peter - UQ, Brisbane
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney (Transgenesis and gene targeting)
Transcriptional Profiling Maleszka, Ryszard - ANU, Canberra (Transcriptional profiling using northern blots, real time PCR and microarrays)

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Brain development

Colditz, Paul - Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (Perinatal health & perinatal neuroscience)
Harding, Richard - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Development of fetal brain: effects of intra-uterine hypoxia, infection & alcohol exposure)
Koblar, Simon - UoA, Adelaide (Axon guidance and Eph/ephrins)
Lardelli, Michael - UoA, Adelaide
Moss, Tim - UWA, Perth
Rees, Sandra - Uni Melbourne (Development of the fetal brain and retina:effects of intrauterine hypoxia, infection and alcohol exposure. The effects of premature birth on brain development and cerebral damage)
Walker, David - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal and neonatal physiology)
Whitelaw, Murray - UoA, Adelaide (Roles of bHLH/PAS transcription factors in early development and homeostasis)

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Development and evolution

Ball, Eldon - ANU, Canberra (Embryonic development in coral)
Currie, Peter - VCCRI, Sydney (Developmental biology of skeletal muscle)
Lardelli, Michael - UoA, Adelaide (Genetic basis of Alzheimers dementia, rostrocausal patterning of the developing spinal cord)
Lieschke, Graham - WEHI, Melbourne (Haemopoiesis, Leukaemogenesis)
Miller, David _ JCU, Townsville Cnidarians genomics, dev. biology of cnidarians, evolutionary genetics of corals)
Renfree, Marilyn - Uni Melbourne (Reproductive physiology and dev. biology of marsupials [sexual differentiation, germ cell and gamete biology, embryonic diapause, pregnancy and parturition and comparative genomics])
Saint, Rob - ANU, Canberra (Molecular genetics, cell and developmental biology; mechanisms of cell division and cell migration)

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Environment / Nutrition

Finnegan, Jean - CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra (Epigenetics, gene silencing, venralization)
Dziadek, Marie - Garvan Institute, Sydney (Epigenetic basis of fetal programming, Role of STIM proteins in calcium signalling)
Greenwood, Paul - Beef Industry CofE, UNE, Armidale (Pre- and postnatal effects of nutrition on growth & development, muscle development, livestock)
McMillen,, Caroline - Developmental Physiology, UniSA (Early origins of adult disease)
Morris, Howard - Hanson Institute, Adelaide (The cell biology of bone architecture)
Owens, Julie - UoA, Adelaide (Early life programming of metabolic homeostasis and endocrine function; control of placental and fetal development)
Perry, Viv - UQ, Goondiwindi (The effect of nutrition during pregnancy on the feteo-placental unit and postnatal growth in cattle; bovine sperm morphology - effects on fertility)
Roberts, Claire - UoA Adelaide (Molecular mechanisms of placental trophoblast invasion of the decidua, molecular determinants of pregnancy complications, epigenetics programming of placental and fetal growth)
Suter, Catherine, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (Epigenetics)
Walker, David - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal and neonatal physiology)
Whitelaw, Emma - QIMR, Brisbane (Epigenetics and mammalian gene expression)
Whitelaw, Murray - UoA, Adelaide (Roles of bHLH/PAS transcription factors in early development and homeostasis)
Wlodek, Mary - Melbourne Uni (Keywords: fetus, newborn, programming, adult disease, diabetes, hypertension, growth & development)

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Embryo

Chick embryo Koblar, Simon - UoA, Adelaide (Chick embryo - in vivo electroporation)
Mouse embryo Dunwoodie, Sally - VCCRI, Sydney (Heart & placental development in mammals)
Harvey, Richard - VCCRI, Sydney (Cardiac functional analysis in mice, mouse embryo culture)
Zebrafish embryology Currie, Peter - VCCRI, Sydney (Zebrafish embryology & genetics)
Heath, Joan - Luwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne (Zebrafish facility)
Lardelli, Michael - UoA, Adelaide (Zebrafish embryology & genetics)

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Fetal modeling of human disease

Fetal development

Bertram, John - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal development, nephron endowment & renal disease in adulthood)
Harding, Richard - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal catheterisation & physiological monitoring, in vivo manipulation of placental function and fetal growth, analysis of lung structure)
Hooper, Stuart - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal lung growth and development)
Moss, Tim - UWA, Perth (Fetal and postanatal effects of antenatal corticsteroids, pre- and postnatal effects of intrauterine inflammation, development of novel strategies for fetal maturation prior to preterm birth)
Newgreen, Don - MCRI, Melbourne (Developmental biology: neural crest, cell migration, epithelium-mesenchyme transition, carcinoma metastasis)
Rees, Sandra - Uni Melbourne (Development of the fetal brain and retina:effects of intrauterine hypoxia, infection and alcohol exposure. The effects of premature birth on brain development and cerebral damage)
Roberts, Claire - UoA Adelaide (Molecular mechanisms of placental trophoblast invasion of the decidua, molecular determinants of pregnancy complications, epigenetics programming of placental and fetal growth)
Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide (Cytokine biology and immunology of early pregnancy and pre-implantation embryo development)
Walker, David - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal and neonatal physiology)
Whitelaw, Emma - QIMR, Brisbane (Epigenetics and mammalian gene expression)

Fetal origins of adult disease

McMillen, Caroline - Uni SA, Adelaide
Wlodek, Mary - Melbourne Uni (Keywords: fetus, newborn, programming, adult disease, diabetes, hypertension, growth & development)

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Model Systems of Human Disease

Bone Morris, Howard - Hanson Institute, Adelaide (The cell biology of bone architecture)
Cardiac development Dunwoodie, Sally - VCCRI, Sydney (Heart & placental development in mammals)
Harvey, Richard - VCCRI, Sydney (Cardiac & skeletal muscle development, cardiac stem cell & regeneration, genetic basis of congenital heart disease)
Craniofacial development Farlie, Peter - MCRI, Melbourne (Early embryonic craniofacial development)
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney
(Somatic and germ cell during embryogenesis; morphogenesis and pattern formation during gastrulation and organogenesis; craniofacial development; differentiation of endodermal tissues; Rett syndrome studies; congenital defects of the anterior segment of the eye)
Wicking, Carol - UQ, Brisbane (Craniofacial and limb development, Hedgehog signalling in development and disease)
Diabetes Wlodek, Mary - Melbourne Uni (Keywords: fetus, newborn, programming, adult disease, diabetes, hypertension, growth & development)
Germ cell development Koopman, Peter - UQ, Brisbane
Sinclair, Andrew - MCRI, Melbourne (Gonad development and germ cell regulation)
Haemopoiesis Lieschke, Graham - WEHI, Melbourne
Huntingtin Richards, Rob - UoA, Adelaide (Molecular basis for dynamic mutations - normal and disease causing roles for repeat sequences. Comparative molecular analysis of chromosomal fragile sites and their roles in human disease)
Leukaemogenesis Lieschke, Graham - WEHI, Melbourne
Limb development Wicking, Carol - UQ, Brisbane (Craniofacial and limb development, Hedgehog signalling in development and disease)
Molecular mechanisms Dunwoodie, Sally - VCCRI, Sydney (Heart & placental development in mammals)
Dziadek, Marie - Garvan Institute, Sydney (Epigenetic basis of fetal programming, Role of STIM proteins in calcium signalling)
McMillen, Caroline - UniSA, Adelaide (Early origins of adult disease, molecular biology lab)
Morris, Howard - Hanson Institute, Adelaide (The cell biology of bone architecture)
Newgreen, Don - MCRI, Melbourne (Developmental biology: neural crest, cell migration, epithelium-mesenchyme transition, carcinoma metastasis)
Saint, Rob - ANU, Canberra (Molecular genetics, cell and developmental biology; mechanisms of cell division and cell migration)
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney (Somatic and germ cell during embryogenesis; morphogenesis and pattern formation during gastrulation and organogenesis; craniofacial development; differentiation of endodermal tissues; Rett syndrome studies; congenital defects of the anterior segment of the eye)
Whitelaw, Emma - QIMR, Brisbane (Epigenetics and mammalian gene expression)
Whitelaw, Murray - UoA, Adelaide (Roles of bHLH/PAS transcription factors in early development and homeostasis)
Perinatal health Colditz, Paul - Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (Perinatal health & perinatal neuroscience)
Stroke Koblar, Simon - UoA, Adelaide (Adult neural stem cells, dental pulp stem cells, axon guidance and Eph/ephrins)
Vascular development Koopman, Peter - UQ, Brisbane
Zebrafish genetics Currie, Peter - VCCRI, Sydney (Developmental biology of skeletal muscle)
Heath, Joan - Luwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne (Organogenesis of the vertebrate intestine, colorectal cancer)
(Zebrafish facility)
Lardelli, Michael - UoA, Adelaide (Genetic basis of Alzheimers dementia, rostrocausal patterning of the developing spinal cord)
Richards, Rob - UoA, Adelaide (Molecular basis for dynamic mutations - normal and disease causing roles for repeat sequences. Comparative molecular analysis of chromosomal fragile sites and their roles in human disease)

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Molecular mechanisms (imprinting, epigenetics, chromosome biology, TF control)

Carroll, Bernie - UQ, Brisbane (RNAi, DNA methylation, cloning)
Dziadek, Marie - Garvan Institute, Sydney (Epigenetic basis of fetal programming, Role of STIM proteins in calcium signalling)
Farlie, Peter - MCRI, Melbourne (Early embryonic craniofacial development)
Finnegan, Jean - CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra (Epigenetics, gene silencing, venralization)
Miller, David _ JCU, Townsville (Cnidarians genomics, dev. biology of cnidarians, evolutionary genetics of corals)
O'Neill, Chris - Uni Sydney (Embryonic stem cells - basic cell physiology, fertilisation - regulation of sperm fertility, early embryo - physiology, genetcis, medicine, maternal recognition of pregnancy)
Rathjen, Peter - UoA, Adelaide (Early mammalian development, development of cell therapeutics for the treatment of human disease)
Renfree, Marilyn - Uni Melbourne (Reproductive physiology and dev. biology of marsupials [sexual differentiation, germ cell and gamete biology, embryonic diapause, pregnancy and parturition and comparative genomics])
Roberts, Claire - UoA Adelaide (Molecular mechanisms of placental trophoblast invasion of the decidua, molecular determinants of pregnancy complications, epigenetics programming of placental and fetal growth)
Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide (Cytokine biology and immunology of early pregnancy and pre-implantation embryo development)
Saint, Rob - ANU, Canberra (Molecular genetics, cell and developmental biology; mechanisms of cell division and cell migration)
Tellam, Ross - CSIRO Livestock Industries, Brisbane (Function of genes and proteins in cattle and sheep production traits, mastitis resistance in dairy cows, genes linked with marbeling in beef cattle, imprinted and non-coding genes in myogenesis and adipogenesis, bovine genome sequencing)
Tremethick, David - ANU, Canberra (Chromatin structure and function)
Whitelaw, Emma - QIMR, Brisbane (Epigenetics and mammalian gene expression)
Whitelaw, Murray - UoA, Adelaide (Roles of bHLH/PAS transcription factors in early development and homeostasis)
Wlodek, Mary - Melbourne Uni (Keywords: fetus, newborn, programming, adult disease, diabetes, hypertension, growth & development)

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Organogenesis

Bertram, John - Monash Uni, Melbourne
Currie, Peter - VCCRI, Sydney (Developmental biology of skeletal muscle)
Dunwoodie, Sally - VCCRI, Sydney (Heart & placental development in mammals)
Farlie, Peter - MCRI, Melbourne (Early embryonic craniofacial development)
Harvey, Richard - VCCRI, Sydney (Cardiac & skeletal muscle development, cardiac stem cell & regeneration, genetic basis of congenital heart disease)
Heath, Joan - Luwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne (Organogenesis of the vertebrate intestine, colorectal cancer)
Hooper, Stuart - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal lung growth and development)
Koopman, Peter - UQ, Brisbane (Sex determination, gonadal development, Sox gene function, molecular genetics of vascular development, germ cell development)
Little, Melissa - UQ, Brisbane (Mammalian kidney development, renal regeneration, the role of Crim1)
Newgreen, Don - MCRI, Melbourne (Developmental biology: neural crest, cell migration, epithelium-mesenchyme transition, carcinoma metastasis)
Renfree, Marilyn - Uni Melbourne (Reproductive physiology and dev. biology of marsupials [sexual differentiation, germ cell and gamete biology, embryonic diapause, pregnancy and parturition and comparative genomics])
Robb, Lorraine - WEHI, Melbourne (Developmental haemopoiesis, early murine development)
Sinclair, Andrew - MCRI, Melbourne (Gonad development and germ cell regulation)
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney (Somatic and germ cell during embryogenesis; morphogenesis and pattern formation during gastrulation and organogenesis; craniofacial development; differentiation of endodermal tissues; Rett syndrome studies; congenital defects of the anterior segment of the eye)
Walker, David - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal and neonatal physiology)
Wicking, Carol - UQ, Brisbane (Craniofacial and limb development, Hedgehog signalling in development and disease)

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Plant

Agrobacterium-mediated & biolistic-mediated transformation of plants Carroll, Bernie - UQ, Brisbane
Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Finnegan, Jean - CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra (Epigenetics, gene silencing, venralization)
Cell culture Carroll, Bernie - UQ, Brisbane
DNA methylation profiling Carroll, Bernie - UQ, Brisbane (Genome-wide scanning for DNA methylation change)
Plant growth facilities Carroll, Bernie - UQ, Brisbane

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Processes (differentiation, EMT, stem cells, cytokinesis, haemopoiesis)

Cytokinesis Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide (Cytokine biology and immunology of early pregnancy and pre-implantation embryo development)
Differentiation Miller, David _ JCU, Townsville Cnidarians genomics, dev. biology of cnidarians, evolutionary genetics of corals)
Saint, Rob - ANU, Canberra
(Molecular genetics, cell and developmental biology; mechanisms of cell division and cell migration)
Endocrine Assay Lab McMillen, Caroline - UniSA, Adelaide
Haemopoiesis Lieschke, Graham - WEHI, Melbourne (Haemopoiesis, Leukaemogenesis)
Robb, Lorraine - WEHI, Melbourne (Developmental haemopoiesis, early murine development)
Neural tube explant system Newgreen, Don - MCRI, Melbourne (Developmental biology: neural crest, cell migration, epithelium-mesenchyme transition, carcinoma metastasis)
Stem cells

Bertram, John - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Renal stem cells & renal regenration)
Dunwoodie, Sally - VCCRI, Sydney (Trophoblast stem cell culture)
Hart, Adam - Monash University, Melbourne (Molecular embryology)
Harvey, Richard - VCCRI, Sydney (Cardiac stem cell & regeneration)
Hill, Jonathan - CSIRO Livestock, Armidale (Testis stem cell development)
Koblar, Simon - UoA, Adelaide (Adult neural stem cells, dental pulp stem cells, isolation & culture of neural stem cells from mammalian brain)
O'Neill, Chris - Uni Sydney (Embryonic stem cells - basic cell physiology, fertilisation - regulation of sperm fertility, early embryo - physiology, genetcis, medicine, maternal recognition of pregnancy)

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Systems biology (musculoskel., bone, lung, repro, kidney, digestive)

Bone Morris, Howard - Hanson Institute, Adelaide (The cell biology of bone architecture)
Craniofacial Farlie, Peter - MCRI, Melbourne (Early embryonic craniofacial development)
Tam, Patrick - CMRI, Sydney
(Somatic and germ cell during embryogenesis; morphogenesis and pattern formation during gastrulation and organogenesis; craniofacial development; differentiation of endodermal tissues; Rett syndrome studies; congenital defects of the anterior segment of the eye)
Wicking, Carol - UQ, Brisbane (Craniofacial and limb development, Hedgehog signalling in development and disease)
Digestive Heath, Joan - Luwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne (Organogenesis of the vertebrate intestine, colorectal cancer)
Kidney Bertram, John - Monash Uni, Melbourne (kidney developmental biology)
Lung Harding, Richard - Monash Uni, Melbourne (lung development)
Hooper, Stuart - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal lung growth and development)
Musculoskeletal

Currie, Peter - VCCRI, Sydney (Developmental biology of skeletal muscle)
Mackie, Eleanor - Uni Melbourne (Development & pathology of musculoskeletal system)

Reproduction Koopman, Peter - UQ, Brisbane (Sex determination, gonadal development, Sox gene function, molecular genetics of vascular development, germ cell development)
O'Neill, Chris - Uni Sydney (Embryonic stem cells - basic cell physiology, fertilisation - regulation of sperm fertility, early embryo - physiology, genetcis, medicine, maternal recognition of pregnancy)
Renfree, Marilyn - Uni Melbourne (Reproductive physiology and dev. biology of marsupials [sexual differentiation, germ cell and gamete biology, embryonic diapause, pregnancy and parturition and comparative genomics])
Robertson, Sarah - UoA, Adelaide (Cytokine biology and immunology of early pregnancy and pre-implantation embryo development)
Thompson, Jeremy - UoA, Adelaide (Reproductive Biology)
Misc. Harper, Greg - Meat and Livestock Australia, Brisbane (Animal science: biochemical genetics & growth and development)
Tellam, Ross - CSIRO Livestock Industries, Brisbane (Function of genes and proteins in cattle and sheep production traits, mastitis resistance in dairy cows, genes linked with marbeling in beef cattle, imprinted and non-coding genes in myogenesis and adipogenesis, bovine genome sequencing)
Walker, David - Monash Uni, Melbourne (Fetal and neonatal physiology)
Wlodek, Mary - Melbourne Uni (Keywords: fetus, newborn, programming, adult disease, diabetes, hypertension, growth & development)

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