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Dr

Greg Kowalski

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
  • +61 3 924 46882 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

My research spans the metabolic biochemistry, integrative physiology,
endocrinology and analytical chemistry fields. Specifically, I am interested
in insulin and glucagon secretion and action as well as understanding how
pathways of central carbon metabolism (glucose, lipids, amino acids) are
coordinated across different organ systems (liver, muscle, pancreas, adipose)
in vivo. A particular interest is in the organ specific evolution of insulin
resistance and hyperinsulinaemia along with the role they play in disease
development, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. I am also
interested in skeletal muscle phospholipid metabolism and how it relates to
mitochondrial structure and function. I utilise both human and rodent in vivo
experimentation, and am specialised in the use of stable isotope metabolic
tracer methodology and quantitative targeted metabolomics. I also manage the
biological gas chromatography-mass spectrometry platform within the Metabolic
Research Unit at the School of Medicine.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, School of Medicine

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher
    Deakin University, Melbourne, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Melbourne, Australia1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
  • Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Deakin University, Melbourne, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Melbourne, Australia1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2017

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Monash University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Clinical sciences
  • Medical biochemistry and metabolomics
  • Medical physiology
  • Biochemistry and cell biology
  • Reproductive medicine

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Medicine

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition