Network Member Profile
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Dr Eldon Ball
Department:
Research School of Biological Science and Centre for the Molecular
Genetics of Development
Organisation:
Australian National University
Address:
GPO Box 475, Canberra, ACT 2601
Telephone: 02 6125 4496, Facsimile: 02 6125
8294
Email: eldon.ball@anu.edu.au
Web
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Current Field of Study
- The molecular control of embryonic development in corals and how the genes
that control this development have evolved in structure and function.
Australian Collaborators
- Prof Robert Saint (CMGD, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT)
- Prof David Miller (James Cook University, Townsville, Qld)
- .Dr John Maindonald (CBIS, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT)
- Dr Sylvain Foret (CBIS, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT)
International Collaborators
- Prof. Michel Anctil (Univ. of Montreal, Canada)
- Prof. Thomas C.G. Bosch, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
- Dr. Georg Himmrich, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
- Dr Stephen Rudd (University of Turku, Finland)
Lab Members
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Dr Eldon Ball
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Head of the Lab
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Dr David Hayward
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Research Officer
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| Dr Danielle de Jong |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
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Ms Lauretta Grasso
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PhD Student
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Mr Lindsey McFarlane
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Technical Officer
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Recent Grant Income
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Description
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CIs
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Type of Grant
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Year
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Income p.a.
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| ARC Special Research Centre for the Moleular Genetics of
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11 |
ARC |
2003-2008 |
$1,300,000 |
Recent Publications
De Jong, D.M., Hislop, N.R., Hayward, D.C., Reece-Hoyes, J.S., Pontynen, P.C.,
Ball, E.E., Miller, D.J. (2006) Components of both major axial patterning systems
of the Bilateria are differentially expressed along the primary axis of a 'radiate'
animal, the anthozoan cnidarian Acropora millepora. Dev. Biol. 298: 632-643.
Ball, E.E., Miller, D.J. (2006) Phylogeny: The continuing classificatory conundrum
of chaetognaths. Curr. Biol. 16: R593-596
Hayward, D.C., Trueman, J.W.H., Bastiani, M. J., Ball, E.E. (2005) The structure
of the USP/RXR of Xenos peckii indicates that Strepsiptera are not closely related
to Diptera. Dev Genes Evol. 215:213-219.
Hislop, N.R., de Jong, D., Hayward, D.C., Ball, E.E., Miller, D.J. (2005) Tandem
organization of independently duplicated homeobox genes in the basal cnidarian
Acropora millepora. . Dev Genes Evol. 215:268-273.
Miller, D.J., Ball, E.E. (2005) Animal evolution: The enigmatic phylum Placozoa
revisited. Curr. Biol. 15: R26-R28.
Miller, D.J., Ball E.E., Technau, U. (2005) Cnidarians and ancestral genetic
complexity in the animal kingdom. Trends Genet. 21:536-9
Technau U, Rudd S, Maxwell P, Gordon P. M.K., Saina M, Grasso L.C., Hayward
D.C., Sensen C.W., Saint, R., Holstein T.W., Ball E.E. , Miller D.J. (2005)
Maintenance of ancestral complexity and non-metazoan genes in two basal cnidarians.
Trends Genet. 21:633-639
Ball, E.E., Hayward, D.C., Saint, R., Miller, D.J. (2004) A simple plan -
cnidarians and the origins of developmental mechanisms. Nature Reviews Genetics
5: 567-77
Hayward, D.C., Miller, d.J., Ball, E.E. (2004) snail expression during embryonic
development of the coral Acropora: blurring the diploblast/trploblast divide?
Development, Genes and Evolution 214: 257-60
Hayward, D.C., Dhadialla, T.S., Zhou, S., Kuiper, M.J., Ball, E.E., Wyatt,
G.R.. Walker, V.K. Ligand Specificity and Developmental Expression of RXR and
Ecdysone Receptor in the Migratory Locust. J Insect Physiol. (in press)
Miller, S.W., Hayward, D.C., Bunch, T.A., Miller, D.J., Ball, E.E., Bardwell,
V.J., Zarkower, D., Brower, D.L. (2003) A DM domain protein from a coral, Acropora
millepora, homologous to proteins important for sex determination. Evolution & Development
5:1-8.
Ball, E.E., Hayward, D.C., Reece-Hoyes, J.S., Hislop, N.R., Samuel, G., Saint,
R., Harrison, P.L., Miller, D.J. (2002) Coral development: from classical embryology
to molecular control. International Journal of Developmental Biology 46: 671-8
Hayward, D.C., Samuel, G., Pontynen, P.C., Catmull, J., Saint, R., Miller,
D.J., Ball, E.E. (2002) Localized expression of a dpp/BMP2/4 ortholog in a coral
embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99:8106-11
Patel, N.H., Hayward, D.C., Lall, S., Pirkl, N.R., DiPietro, D., Ball, E.E.
(2001) Grasshopper hunchback expression reveals conserved and novel aspects of
axis formation and segmentation. Development 128:3459-3472.
Hayward, D.C., Catmull, J., Reece-Hoyes, J.S., Berghammer, H., Dodd, H.,
Hann, S.J., Miller, D.J., Ball, E.E. (2001) Gene structure and larval expression
of cnox-2Am from the coral Acropora millepora. Development Genes & Evolution
211:10-19.
Grasso, L.C., Hayward, D.C., Trueman, J.W.H., Hardie, K.M., Janssens, P.A.,
Ball, E.E. (2001) The evolution of nuclear receptors: Evidence from the coral
Acropora. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21: 93-102.
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