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Faculty: Medicine & Health Role: Professor Field: Mental Health, Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology, Epidemiology
Zachary Steel, PhD M.Clin.Psych St John of God Professorial Chair of Trauma and Mental Health School of Psychiatry, University New South Wales St John of God Health Care, Richmond Hospital, North Richmond NSW 2754 E z.steel@unsw.edu.au| P 61 2 4570 6100| F 61 2 8569 1553 www.sjog.org.au/richmond | www.twitter.com/sjog_healthcare   Research Interests: Trauma and mental health, psychological...
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Faculty: Medicine & Health Role: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:Current research interests and projects include the epidemiology and natural history and consequences of cannabis and alcohol use and dependence, cannabis potency and the Australian cannabis market and substance use among older Australians. Broad Research Areas:Drug Related Harm / Addiction, Clinical Research, Community Medicine, Epidemiology, Population Health Qualifications:...
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Faculty: Faculty of Science Role: Associate Professor Field: Cell Neurochemistry, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Cellular Interactions (incl. Adhesion, Matrix, Cell Wall), Cellular Nervous System, Neurobiology
Biography Education 1996: Specialist degree, Dnepropetrovsk National University, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. 2002: PhD degree in Biology, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. 2016: Graduate certificate in University Learning and Teaching, UNSW. Professional Experience 2017 - current: Associate Professor, School of Biotechnology and...
Faculty: Medicine & Health Role: Conjoint Associate Professor Field: Motor Control, Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
I am an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and an Associate Professor through the School of Medical Sciences. My research area is the control of human movement.  My work investigates how the brain and nervous system control the actions of the muscles.  The control of muscles by the nervous system underlies all of our actions.  This control requires constant modulation...
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Faculty: Faculty of Science Role: Professor Field: Chemical Science, Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry, Synthesis of Materials, Organic Chemical Synthesis
BIOGRAPHY   Description My research is in the area of bio-mimetic chemistry with focus on nanomedicine, supramolecular and biophysical chemistry. To this end we apply a combination of synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry, bioconjugate chemistry (chemical modification of biological molecules), cellular biology (for activity assays) and supramolecular chemistry to make our target systems and...
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Faculty: Medicine & Health Role: Professor Field: Neurosciences, Public Health and Health Services, Mental Health
Professor Julian Trollor is a neuropsychiatrist and holds the inaugural Chair of Intellectual Disability Mental Health at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He also heads the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry within the School of Psychiatry at UNSW. Julian is involved in diverse research programs including ageing and cognitive decline in intellectual disability,...
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Faculty: Medicine & Health Role: Associate Professor Field: Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance, Sensory Systems, Neurosciences, Animal Physiology - Systems
Research Interests: My broad aim is to understand the neural mechanisms that give rise to sensory perception. In collaboration with colleagues at UWS and at NeuRA, I work on tactile perception and cortical coding in the somatosensory system, and on tactile prostheses to restore touch to amputees. Electrophysiological techniques are employed to study neural coding. Psychophysical and behavioural...
Faculty: Medicine & Health Role: Adjunct Associate Professor Field: Central Nervous System
Bryce Vissel's work spans neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and spinal disorders as well as studies of the neural basis of learning and memory and movement mechanisms.   After being awarded his PhD in medical genetics from the University of Melbourne in 1991, Professor Vissel joined Garvan’s Neuroscience Division, where he was subsequently awarded a National Health and...
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Faculty: Faculty of Science Role: Scientia Fellow (Level D)
Research Program Broadly, my research interests are in the area of molecular genetic mechanisms underlying human brain disorders. My PhD work demonstrated that unstable DNA repeats block replication fork progression in bacteria, yeast and mammalian cells by forming DNA-hairpins on the lagging strand (Voineagu et al. PNAS 2008), and investigated for the first time the cellular checkpoint responses...
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Faculty: Medicine & Health Role: Honorary Associate Professor Field: Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology), Infectious Diseases, Autonomic Nervous System
Ute Vollmer-Conna has extensive training in the rare combination of psychology (learning and behaviour, neuropsychology and statistics) and laboratory immunology; and a doctorate in the cross-disciplinary field of Psychoneuroimmunology. She is a registered psychologist and had has a Germany qualification in physiotherapy. Her current position is as Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the...