Staff profile

Dr Keerthi Kulasekara

Lecturer

Faculty of Health Sciences

La Trobe Rural Health School
Department of Rural Human Biosciences

Bendigo

 

Qualifications

MBBS, Mphil, PhD

Area of study

Anatomy and Physiology

Teaching Units

HBS3ANP- Subject Coordinator

HBS3PAN- Bendigo Coordinator

HBS2ALU- Bendigo Coordinator

HBS2ALF- Bendigo Coordinator

HBS2PAT

HBS1HBA

HBS1HBB

DENMED

DEN1DSB

PAR3PMT

HBS2IAI

 

Recent Publications

Papers in refereed journels

1. Kulasekara KK, Lukandu OM, Neppelberg E, Vintermyr OK,Johannessen AC, Costea DE. Cancer progression is associated with increased expression of basement membrane proteins in three-dimensional in vitro models of human oral cancer (Archives of Oral Biology 2009; 54 (10): 924-931).

2. Costea DE, Kulasekara K, Neppelberg E ,Johannessen AC, Vintermyr OK.Species –specific fibroblasts required for triggering invasiveness of partially transformed oral keratinocytes ( American Journal of Pathology 2006; 168 (6):1889-1897).

3. Ootsuka Y, Kulasekara K, de Menezes RC, Blessing WW. SR59230A, a beta-3 adrenoceptor antagonist, inhibits ultradian brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and interrupts associated episodic brain and body heating (American Journal of Physiology, Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 2011;301 (4): R 987-94)

conference papers
 

1. Kulasekara K*, Ootsuka and W.W. Blessing. Destruction of medullary noradrenergic neurons following injection of anti-dopamine-B-hydroxylase immunotoxin into the median preoptic area of the rat. ASMR SA annual scientific meeting, Adelaide, Australia (June 12-17, 2007).

2. Kulasekara K*, Ootsuka and W.W. Blessing. Destruction of A1 and A2 noradrenergic neurons following injection of anti-dopamine-B-hydroxylase immunotoxin into the median preoptic area of the rat. IBRO world congress of neuroscience, Melbourne, Australia (July 12-17, 2007).

3. Kulasekara K*, Menezes R, Ootsuka and W.W. Blessing. Amygdala mediates sympathetic cutaneous vasoconstrictor alerting responses (SCVARs) in rats: relevance of 5HT2A receptors. Australian Neuroscience Society annual scientific meeting, Canberra, Australia (January 27-30, 2009).

4. Costea DE*, Loro LL, Kulasekara KK, Johannessen AC, Vintermyr OK.Species-specific fibroblasts trigger local invasion of transformed oral epithelial cells- 5th Bergen conference on Cancer Research, Osøyro, Norway (April 23-24, 2004).

5. Costea DE*, Loro LL, Kulasekara KK, Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Underlying fibroblasts modulate tumour progression of early neoplastic oral keratinocytes-Joint meeting of the Continental European(CED), Israeli and Scandinavian(NOF) divisions of IADR, Istanbul, Turkey (August 25-28,2004).

6. Costea DE*, Loro LL, Kulasekara KK, Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Invasion of early neoplastic oral keratinocytes is triggered by species-specific diffusible factors produced by underlying fibroblasts-12th Biennial meeting of the International Association of Oral Pathologists(IAOP), International congress on oral pathology and medicine, Madrid, Spain (September 06-11, 2004).

7. Costea DE*, Loro LL, Kulasekara KK, Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC.Significance of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions for morphogenesis of in vitro reconstituted dysplastic human oral epithelium- NOS-M Symposium on “Oral Precancer and Cancer”, Copenhagen, Denmark (September 3-5,2004).

8. Costea DE*, Loro LL, Kulasekara KK, Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Underlying fibroblasts trigger invasiveness of early neoplastic oral keratinocytes in a species-specific manner- Research Presentation Day, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Bergen, Norway (October 06, 2004).

9. Kulasekara KMKK*, Costea DE, Loro LL, Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Role of basement membrane components in tumour cell invasion- Research Presentation Day, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Bergen, Norway (October 06, 2004).

10. Costea DE*, Loro LL, Kulasekara KK, Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Species- specific fibroblasts trigger invasiveness of early neoplastic oral keratinocytes- 83rd General session of IADR, Baltimore, MD, USA (March 6-12, 2005).

11. Kulasekara KMKK*, Costea DE, Øijodsbakken G , Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Basement membarne proteins in a step-wise in vitro culture models of oral cancer progression- 10th International Congress on Oral Cancer, Crete, Greece (April 19-24, 2005).

12. Costea DE, Øijodsbakken G, Kulasekara KK*, Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Keratinocyte sensitivity to fibroblasts-derived differentiation signals is gradually lost during in vitro tumour progression- 10th International Congress on Oral Cancer, Crete, Greece (April 19-24, 2005). Best presentation award in the basic science section

13. Kulasekara KMKK*, Costea DE, Lukandu OM , Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Stromal fibroblasts modulate a differential expression of basement membrane proteins in in vitro organotypic culture models of normal,early neoplastic and invasive neoplastic oral mucosa.6th Bergen conference on Cancer Research, Osøyro, Norway (May 20-21, 2005).

14. Kulasekara KMKK*, Costea DE, Lukandu OM , Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC. Stromal fibroblasts modulate the basement membrane protein deposition in in vitro organotypic culture models of oral mucosa. 5th International students conference on public health, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway (May 27-28, 2005).