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Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA)
Professor Lynne Bilston
| Position: | Principal Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | l.bilston@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Biomechanical factors in CNS, Biomechanical engineering, Paediatric injury |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Mechanical testing, Crash lab, Computational modelling, MR elastography |
| Keywords: | Brain injury, Spinal cord injury, Biomechanics, Hydrocephalus, Syringomyelia, Mechanotransduction |
Associate Professor James Brock
| Position: | NHMRC Senior Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | j.brock@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Associate Professor - School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Peripheral nervous system, Sensory nerve biology, Autonomic neuroeffector transmission, Nerve injury, Extracellular recording from nerve terminals |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Electrophysiology lab |
| Keywords: | Electrophysiology, Electrochemistry, Blood vessel myography |
Professor Tony Broe
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | t.broe@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Affiliations: | Prince of Wales Clinical School |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Aboriginal population health, Brain ageing, Dementia, Movement disorders, Neurodegeneration, Longitudinal population studies |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Behavioural neurology, Cognitive disorders, Geriatric medicine, Population studies |
| Keywords: | Aboriginal health, Brain ageing, Dementia, Movement disorders, Neurodegeneration |
Dr William Brooks
| Position: | Senior Research Officer |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | w.brooks@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Prince of Wales Clinical School |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Familial dementia (clinical characterisation) |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Clinical assessment |
| Keywords: | Familial dementia, Familial Alzheimer's disease, Genetics |
Dr Jane Butler
| Position: | NHMRC R D Wright Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | j.butler@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Senior Lecturer - School of Medical Sciences |
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Professor James Colebatch
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | j.colebatch@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Prince of Wales Clinical School |
| Research Interests, Skills: | |
| Technologies, Expertise: | |
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Associate Professor Kay Double
| Position: | Principal Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | k.double@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Associate Professor - School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Neurodegenerative diseases, Neurochemistry, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Neurogenesis |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Cell culture, Biochemistry, HPLC |
| Keywords: | Neurodegeneration, Neurochemistry, Neuromelanin, Oxidative stress, Diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders, Neuroprotection, Neurogenesis |
Dr Richard Fitzpatrick
| Position: | Research Officer |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | r.fitzpatrick@unsw.edu.au |
| Website: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | School of Medical Sciences, Prince of Wales Clinical School |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Human neurophysiology, Motor control, Sensation, Cardiovascular control, Muscle fatigue, Vestibular physiology, Balance and falls |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Motion analysis systems, Human sensation and falls, Vestibular stimulation |
| Keywords: | Motor control, Sensation, Cardiovascular, Vestibular, Balance |
Dr Paul Foley
| Position: | ARC Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | p.foley@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Lecturer - School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | History of medicine with emphasis on history of the neurosciences, History of pharmacy, Schizophrenia, Infectious diseases and the brain. Current projects: history of encephalitis lethargica, German neurology/psychiatry 1918-1945 |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Fluent in English/German, reading knowledge of Latin, some knowledge of classical Greek, Dutch and French. Extensive research experience (1983-1996) in laboratory biomedical research |
| Keywords: | History, Archival/library research, Analysis, Synthesis, Writing |
Dr Jan Fullerton
| Position: | Senior Research Officer |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | j.fullerton@neura.edu.au |
| Affiliations: | School of Medical Sciences, Schizophrenia Research Institute |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Genetics of psychiatric disorders - particular interest in genetics of bipolar spectrum disorders, Complex trait analysis and endophenotypes |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Molecular genetics, Complex trait analysis, Genotyping |
| Keywords: | Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, Temperament, Epistasis |
Professor Simon Gandevia
| Position: | NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Deputy Director |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | s.gandevia@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Affiliations: | Prince of Wales Clinical School |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Human clinical neurophysiology, Proprioception and kinaesthesia, Sensorimotor control, Respiratory motor control, Fatigue in health and disease, Hand function |
| Technologies, Expertise: | A range of clinical neurophysiological techniques |
| Keywords: | Clinical neurophysiology, Motor control, Proprioception, Exercise, Respiration, Fatigue |
Associate Professor Brett Garner
| Position: | NHMRC Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | brett.garner@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Senior Lecturer - School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Cellular lipid transport, Apolipoprotein structure and function, Amyloid-beta peptide synthesis, Sphingolipid inhibitors as pharmacological agents, Neurodegeneration |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Lipid and protein analytical methods, Cellular lipid and protein transport, Glycobiology, Animal models |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer's disease, Cholesterol, Vascular disease |
Professor Glenda Halliday
| Position: | NHMRC Principal Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | g.halliday@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Affiliations: | School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Neurodegeneration, Dementia, Movement Disorders, Longitudinal Studies, Neuropathology, Volumetrics |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Neuropathology, Immunopathology, Comparative neuroanatomy, Proteomics, Longitudinal studies |
| Keywords: | Neurodgeneration, Dementia and movement disorders |
Professor John Hodges
Dr Tim Karl
| Position: | NHMRC Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | t.karl@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Phenotyping of multi-factorial rodent models for mental disorders, Investigation of interactions between genes and environment, Effects of environmental enrichment on neuroscience |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Multi-tiered comprehensive behavioural phenotyping, Neuro-surgical techniques for rodents |
| Keywords: | Behaviour, Animal model, Environmental enrichment, Mental disorder |
Professor Matthew Kiernan
| Position: | Professor of Neurology, Principal Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | m.kiernan@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Affiliations: | Prince of Wales Clinical School |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Impulse conduction, Neurodegenerative disease, Clinical neurology |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Neurophysiology |
| Keywords: | Axonal ion channels, Nerve excitability, Motor neuron disease, Hereditary nerve and muscle disorders |
Dr Woojin Scott Kim
| Position: | Senior Research Officer |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | w.kim@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease, in particular the impact of ATP-binding cassette transporters on neuronal lipid homeostasis and amyloid-beta peptide generation |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Molecular biology, Cell biology, Tissue culturing, Knockout and transgenic mice |
| Keywords: | Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease, Amyloid-beta peptide, Cholesterol transport, ATP-binding cassette transporters |
Dr Leonora Long
| Position: | Postdoctoral Research Officer |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | l.long@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Psychiatry: schizophrenia, drug abuse; Neuropharmacology: cannabinoid mechanisms of action; Behavioural neuroscience: rodent behavioural phenotyping, neurodevelopment |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Rodent behavioural phenotyping, Behavioural pharmacology |
| Keywords: | Schizophrenia, Behaviour, Cannabinoids, Neurodevelopment |
Professor Stephen Lord
| Position: | Senior Principal Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | s.lord@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Affiliations: | School of Public Health and Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Understanding balance - physiology of standing. Applied aspects - falls in elderly. Clinical - Parkinson's |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Gait laboratory - motion analysis system with force plates, Physiological falls risk assessment for older people, Epidemiological study design |
| Keywords: | Balance disorders, Posture and gait, Accidental falls, Exercise interventions, Falls risk assessment, Applied neurology |
Professor Vaughan Macefield
| Position: | Principal Research Fellow (NeuRA); Professor of Integrative Physiology (UWS) |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | v.macefield@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Prince of Wales Clinical School UNSW; School of Medicine UWS |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Human neurophysiology, Firing properties of sensory nerve fibres from skin and muscle, Sympathetic nerve traffic in healthy and disease, Central processing of pain |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Microneurography; fMRI |
| Keywords: | Spinal cord injury, Human sympathetic n.s., Neurophysiology, Control of blood pressure, Autonomic dysreflexia, Sensorimotor control of the human hand, Cortical processing of pain |
Dr Penelope McNulty
| Position: | Conjoint Lecturer |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | p.mcnulty@unsw.edu.au |
| Affiliations: | School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Motor control, Somatosensory receptors, Sensorimotor integration e.g. Reflexes in stroke and spinal cord injury, and healthy populations |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Microneurography, Intraneural microstimulation, Axonal excitability |
| Keywords: | Single nerve cells, Motor control, Peripheral sensory receptors, Proprioception |
Dr Lorimer Moseley
Professor George Paxinos
| Position: | NHMRC Principal Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | g.paxinos@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Professor - School of Medical Sciences, Visiting Professor - School of Psychology |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Structure of human cortex, Structure of human and rat spinal cord, Rhombomeric model, 3D construction of brain of human and experimental animals, CNS development |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Immunohistochemistry, In-situ hybridisation |
| Keywords: | Cortex, Spinal cord, Hypothalamus, Rhombomeres, 3D reconstructions |
Dr Olivier Piguet
| Position: | NHMRC CDA Fellow (Clinical) |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | o.piguet@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Lecturer - School of Psychology |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Frontotemporal dementia, Healthy and pathological cognitive ageing, Executive functions, Emotional memory |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Clinical neuropsychology, Structural and functional brain imaging |
| Keywords: | Cognitive ageing, Brain imaging, Memory, Executive functions, Emotion processing |
Professor Caroline (Lindy) Rae
| Position: | NewSouth Global Professor of Brain Sciences UNSW |
| Organisation: | Brain Sciences |
| Email: | c.rae@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile - NeuRA | Faculty of Medicine |
| Affiliations: | NeuRA, School of Chemistry |
| Research Interests, Skills: | How brain biochemistry underlies brain function and vice-versa, Interdisciplinary approach |
| Technologies, Expertise: | High and low field magnetic resonance, 3-Tesla scanner, High resolution spectrometers (500 & 600 MHz), Cryoprobe access |
| Keywords: | Neurochemistry, Magnetic resonance, Dyslexia, Obstructive sleep apnoea, Cerebral malaria |
Professor Peter Schofield
Dr Claire Shepherd
| Position: | Senior Research Officer |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | c.shepherd@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Alzheimer's disease |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Neuropathology, Immunohistochemistry |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer's disease, Neuroinflammation, Pathology, Beta-amyloid, Tau |
Associate Professor Janet Taylor
| Position: | Senior Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | NeuRA |
| Email: | jl.taylor@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Senior Lecturer - School of Medical Sciences |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Human motor control, especially the control of voluntary movement including the contribution of the brain and nervous system to fatigue and the sensations associated with movement and effort |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Stimulation of other parts of the motor pathway |
| Keywords: | Voluntary movement, Fatigue, Central fatigue, Proprioception, Transcranial magnetic stimulation |
Dr Eryn Werry
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Organisation: | Brain Sciences UNSW; NeuRA |
| Email: | e.werry@neura.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Human adult neurogenesis in ageing and disease, Role of glial cells in health and disease |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Tissue culture, Protein release assays, Immunofluorescence, Calcium imaging |
| Keywords: | Adult human neurogenesis , Ageing, Astrocytes |
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