ProfessorKen Walder
Chair In Metabolic Diseases
Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
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- Chair In Metabolic DiseasesFaculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
- +61 3 522 72883 (Work)
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
TEACHING EXPERTISE
Previously supervised 25 PhD and 32 Honours students to successful
completions. 1 Current PhD student as Principal Supervisor, 4 as Associate
Supervisor.
Unit Chair of HMH900 (Research Design)
completions. 1 Current PhD student as Principal Supervisor, 4 as Associate
Supervisor.
Unit Chair of HMH900 (Research Design)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- UNIT TAUGHTHMH900 (Research Design)
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Novel Platform to Study Uveal Melanoma Pathobiology and Therapeutics
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONRepurposing drugs to treat schizophrenia using a stem cell model.
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCharacterising mitochondrial function in bipolar disorder using neuronal stem cell models.
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONAHI-I and NDRG2 Function in Skeletal Muscle and the Development of Type 2 Diabetes
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMetabolically Important Secreted Proteins in Psammomys obesus
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNovel Genes in the Muscle of Obese-Diabetic Psammomys obesus
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNovel Secreted Proteins Involved in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Global Approach to Dissecting Lipid-induced Impairment of Liver Gluconeogenesis
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONProduction and Characterisation of Powdered Fibrous Materials
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONHDAC inhibition as a therapeutic potential to treat metabolic diseases
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMitochondrial Target Discovery in Diabetic Skeletal Muscle
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Genetic and Epigenetic Analysis of the Noradrenaline Transporter
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Modular Design Framework for Lab-On-a-Chips
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONIdentification and Characterisation of Novel Compound(s) for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONRhotekin 2, a Novel GTPase Effector Involved in Resistance to Apoptosis
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNovel Hypothalamic Genes Involved in Body Weight Regulation in Psammomys obesus
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Ecology and Evolution of Beak and Feather Disease Virus in Platycercus elegans
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONInnate immunity in the breast and the role of the milk peptidome
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONZinc doped ferrite magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent for atherosclerosis
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDevelopment and Evaluation of a Novel Insulin Analogue
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONADAMTS5 expression and function in myoblast fusion and muscle regeneration
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe relationship between milk, mammary adipocytes and ECM in regulating murine mammary gland involution
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFunctional Role of Amyloid b42 in Systemic Glucose Metabolism
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Marsupial: A unique model for understanding the regulation of lung development