Staff profile

Qualifications

• BSc Hons (Chemistry) VUT, PhD Deakin

Teaching areas

• MED3MSB - Medical Science B (3rd year) - Neuromuscular disorders
• ZOO3EPA - Zoology (3rd year) - Moving into Metabolism

Supervision

• 2007 - Ms Noni Larkins, Honours student (Co-supervisor, Prof Graham Lamb)
  

  - Investigation of calcium content and calsequestrin levels in fast and slow twitch muscle fibres of Long- Evans Hooded rats

• 2008 - Ms Noni Larkins, PhD student (Co-supervisor with Prof Graham Lamb as supervisor)
  

  - Investigation of heat shock proteins in skeletal muscle.

• 2009 - Ms Janelle Mollica, PhD student (Co-supervisor with Prof Graham Lamb as supervisor)
  - Identifying proteins and mechanisms involved in regulating skeletal muscle calcium..

Professional involvement

• Member of Australian Physiological Society
• Council member of Australian Physiological Society

Research interests

• My NHMRC funded research examines regulation and properties of Ca^2+- dependent proteases (calpains) in skeletal muscle.  My broad interest is in neuromuscular disorders, diseases which affect a variety of different proteins in skeletal muscle (eg. Caveolin-3, dysferlin, dystrophin associated complex proteins).
• My biochemistry laboratory is part of the Muscle Cell Research Group

Publications

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