Staff profile

Dr Mark Jois graduated B.V.Sc. from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India in 1979 and M.V.Sc. from the same University in 1982. He was awarded a PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 1986 for his work on amino acid metabolism in ruminants. He took up a position as Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 1986 and was appointed Assistant Professor (Research) in the same department in 1989. He spent a year in the University of Melbourne as Research Fellow before joining the teaching staff at La Trobe in 1993. He took up the position as the Director, Central Animal House in 1997.

Research interests

• mechanisms of action of hormones and agonists
• partitioning of nutrients during growth and lactation
• metabolic regulation in animals

Teaching

• Course Coordinator for Bachelor of Human Nutrition

Publications

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1. Mabrouk, G.M., Jois, M. and Brosnan, J.T. (1998). "Cell signalling and the hormonal stimulation of the hepatic glycine cleavage system by glucagon". Biochem. J. 330:759-763.
2. Mohamed Ali, A. and Jois, M (1997). "Uptake and metabolism of propionate in the liver isolated from sheep treated with glucagon". British Journal of Nutrition 77:783-793.
3. Jois, M. and Brosnan, J.T. (1993). "Hormonal regulation of hepatic glycine oxidation". Aust. J. Agric. Res. 44:473-8.
4. Jois, M., Ewart, H.S. and Brosnan, J.T. (1992). "Regulation of glycine catabolism in rat liver mitochondria". Biochem. J. 283:435-9.
5. Jois, M., Hall, B. and Brosnan, J.T. (1990). "Stimulation of glycine catabolism in rat liver mitochondria by calcium mobilizing hormones and in isolated rat liver mitochondria by submicromolar concentrations of calcium". J. Biol. Chem. 265:1246-8.