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Make the most of your trip to Melbourne, Australia, for the 2019 DOHaD World Congress by organising a local lab visit. See for yourself the amazing facilities where our world-class DOHaD research is undertaken, and meet with the remarkable researchers who make it all happen!If you are interested in this networking opportunity and would like to schedule a visit, please contact directly the researcher(s) listed below by email:
Professor David BurgnerContact: david.burgner{AT}mcri.edu.au Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Parkville, Victoria https://www.mcri.edu.au/contact
Keywords: child, cardiovascular, metabolic, life course, inflammation, innate immunityProfessor David Burgner is a paediatric infectious diseases clinician and researcher. His research interests are on the drivers and consequences of early life infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to cardiometabolic risk. He leads the Inflammatory Origins research group, co-leads the Complex Disease Flagship Initiative at MCRI, and is an investigator on The Barwon Infant Study, Child Health CheckPoint, GenV, and the Drakenstein Child Health Study. The group uses diverse methodological approaches, including total population data linkage, population-derived and high risk longitudinal cohorts, model systems and ‘omics technologies and has particular interests in preclinical cardiovascular phenotyping and assessment of inflammation and trained immunity.
Professor Anthony HannanContact: anthony.hannan@florey.edu.auFlorey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental HealthParkville, Victoria https://www.florey.edu.au/about/contactKeywords: gene-environment interactions, epigenetic inheritance, experience-dependent plasticity, cognitive disorders, epigenopathy, enviromimeticsProfessor Anthony Hannan is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Head of the Epigenetics and Neural Plasticity Laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne. Prof. Hannan received his undergraduate training and PhD in neuroscience from the University of Sydney. He was then awarded a Nuffield Medical Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where he subsequently held other research positions before returning to Australia on an NHMRC RD Wright Career Development Fellowship to establish a laboratory at the Florey Institute. He subsequently won other fellowships and awards, including an ARC FT3 Future Fellowship and NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship. Prof. Hannan and colleagues provided the first demonstration in any genetic animal model that environmental stimulation can be therapeutic. This has led to new insights into gene-environment interactions in various brain disorders, including Huntington’s disease, dementia, depression, schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. His research team at the Florey explores how genes and the environment combine via experience-dependent plasticity in the healthy and diseased brain. Their research includes models of specific neurological and psychiatric disorders which involve cognitive and affective dysfunction, investigated at behavioural, cellular and molecular levels so as to identify pathogenic mechanisms and novel therapeutic targets. Most recently, this has included studies of intergenerational and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.