Research in Physiology
PHYSIOLOGY RESEARCH LABORATORIES
- Basic
and Clinical Myology
(Associate Professor Gordon Lynch)
Interests; aging and muscle function; muscle injury and regeneration; dystrophic skeletal muscle - Cardiac
Phenomics
(Associate Professor Lea Delbridge)
Interests; Understanding the alterations in cardiac and renal structure and function which occur in genetic and non-genetic cardiovascular disease conditions. - Central Cardiovascular Regulation
(Dr Andrew Allen)
Interests; How the central nervous system modulates cardiovascular function via the autonomic nervous system.
- Educational
Research & Development
(Dr Robert Kemm)
Interests; understanding learning processes in student's modelling of cellular functions, appropriate design of tasks for enhanced motivation and outcomes within a computer-facilitated collaborative learning environment - Enteric
Neuroscience
(Associate Professor Joel Bornstein)
Interests; autonomic neurophysiology, enteric nervous system, synaptic physiology, computer simulation, testosterone in the spinal cord - Exercise
Physiology and Metabolism
(Dr Glenn McConell)
Interests; Regulation of skeletal muscle glucose uptake during exercise (potential roles of AMP-activated protein kinase and nitric oxide synthase); effect of exercise training on muscle metabolism and muscle protein expression; muscle metabolism during exercise in type 2 diabetics; factors contributing to the increase in skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity after exercise in diabetes; effect of creatine supplementation on muscle metabolism and strength development. - Fetal,
Postnatal and Adult physiology and disease
(Associate Professor Mary Wlodek)
Interests; Fetus, newborn, programming, adult disease, diabetes, hypertension, growth & development - Genetic
Physiology
(Professor Stephen Harrap)
Interests; Population genetics of cardiovascular disease and coronary risk factors, Genome scans, Candidate genes, Linkage mapping, Association studies, Victorian Family Heart Study, AMIGO study, Sex chromosomes, Male pattern baldness, Epithelial sodium channels, Cardiac hypertrophy, Hypertrophic Heart Rat (HHR), Prevention of genetic hypertension - Hypertension
(Dr Robert Dinicolantonio)
Interests; - Molecular
Neurophysiology
(Associate Professor Graham Barrrett)
Interests; Alzheimer’s disease and p75 neurotrophin receptor, Antisense oligonucleotides - NeuroPhysiology
and Fluorescence Imaging
(Professor David Williams)
Interests; Biomedical imaging and electrophysiology, particularly in relation to understanding cell-to-cell communication in brain function, synaptic function, the regulation of ionic balance in normal and diseased cells and tissues