State/New Zealand Representatives
State and New Zealand representatives promote the society and its activities by fostering local communities, recruiting new members and sharing local news with our national membership base. State and New Zealand representatives also organise local scientific meetings of the society, which are vital for cell biologists and developmental biologists to meet, share cutting-edge science and support career development.
Australian Capital Territory
Teresa Bonello
Australian National University
Dr Theresa Bonello is a Research Fellow based at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU. Dr Bonello has a long-standing interest in how cells polarise and respond to mechanical cues. Teresa uses epithelial models from flies to organoids and provides fundamental insight into conserved signalling pathways central to development and cancer.
Twitter @DrTeresaBonello
Web Thompson-Group
Rachel Woodhouse
Australian National University
Dr Rachel Woodhouse is a Research Fellow based at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU. Dr Woodhouse applies expertise in epigenetics to target mechanisms of immune evasion in cancer and overcome resistance to chemotherapy.
Twitter @rachelinthelab
Web Burr-Group
New South Wales
Dr. Allegra Algeloni
Garvan Institute
Dr. Allegra Angeloni is a postdoctoral researcher at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, where she investigates how epigenetic mechanisms guide embryonic development. Her research spans a wide range of animals, from vertebrates to invertebrates, to uncover how these processes evolved.
Twitter @angeloniallegra
Dr. Nicole Green
University of New South Wales
Nicole Green is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales. Her work investigates the genetic and transcriptomic changes associated with brain disorders, including neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, and their underlying mechanisms.
Twitter @NicoleFGreen
Queensland
Sean Coakley
University of Queensland
Dr Sean Coakley is a group leader at the School of Biomedical Sciences at UQ. His lab is focused on discovering the cellular mechanisms that protect the nervous system from mechanical strain, using C. elegans as a model.
Twitter @stcoakley @coakleylab
Web coakleylab.com
Dr. Igor Bonacossa
QBI, University of Queensland
Dr Igor Bonacossa Pereira is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof Robert Parton’s lab at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences at UQ. He investigates how cells repurpose lipid droplets to defend against infection, and the function of a peculiar membrane molecule called caveolin using the nematode C. elegans as model organism.
Web Igor_Bonacossa
South Australia
Genevieve Secker
CCB, University of South Australia
Dr Genevieve Secker is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cancer Biology/UniSA. Her research focusses on regulators of cardiovascular development with a special interest in lymphatic vessel development and disease.
Dr. Lachlan Jolly
University of Adelaide
Dr Jolly is head of the Neurobiology Research Group and investigates the genetic, molecular, cell and developmental processes which underpin brain development. The major research areas are to develop technologies to discover causative mutations, apply patient, stem and neuronal cell of brain development to understand gene function, and discover new therapeutics and biomarkers.
Web Lachlan_Jolly
Tasmania
TBD
Caroline Delandre
University of Tasmania
Dr Caroline Delandre is a postdoctoral researcher at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. She studies the epigenetics of Alzheimer's Disease and ageing using Drosophila melanogaster.
Victoria
Gonzalo del Monte Nieto
Monash University
Dr. Del Monte focuses his research on the molecular mechanisms and developmental processes orchestrating heart development, as well as the translation of this knowledge into congenital and adult heart disease, and cardiac regeneration.
Twitter Gonzalo del Monte Nieto
Web Del Monte-Nieto Group
Maria Tanzer
WEHI
Dr. Tanzer applies high-sensitivity proteomics to investigate signalling that regulates cell death and the removal of dead cells during inflammation.
Twitter Maria_Tanzer
Web Tanzer_lab
Western Australia
David Martino
Group Leader, Clinical Epigenetics
Telethon Kids Institute
David is a biomedical research scientist, trained in molecular biology and human immunology.
He currently leads the Clinical Epigenetics team at Telethon Kids Institute, who are focused on understanding the links between child health and development and the molecular hallmarks of epigenetic control.
Twitter: @D_J_Martino
Web David Martino
Liisa Hirvonen
University of Western Australia
Dr Hirvonen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. In addition to her own research in molecular mechanobiology of cell adhesions, she looks after the Optical Microscopy Platform in the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA) core facility.
Web Liisa Hirvonen
New Zealand
Laura Gumy
University of Otago
Dr Laura Gumy is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago. Dr Gumy’s research focusses on intracellular transport processes and cytoskeletal remodelling in neurons. These are fundamental pathways that when impaired can lead to neuronal dysfunction or nerve regeneration deficits. The Gumy lab uses live imaging, biochemical and genetic methods to identify and interrogate molecular interactions with a role in neural repair.
Twitter @lauragumy
Web Laura Gumy
Louise Bicknell
University of Otago
Associate Professor Louise Bicknell is a molecular geneticist, focused on identifying and characterising rare genetic disorders of growth and development in children. Her lab uses both sequence data and cell-based experiments to understand consequences of novel human genetic variants, aiming to help affected families get answers and knowledge.
Twitter @bicknell_l
Web Louise Bicknell