ProfessorKen Walder

Chair In Metabolic Diseases

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

  • Chair In Metabolic Diseases
    Faculty 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)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    HMH900 (Research Design)
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Novel Platform to Study Uveal Melanoma Pathobiology and Therapeutics
    Lauren Ann Dalvin - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Repurposing drugs to treat schizophrenia using a stem cell model.
    Yihan Zhang - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Characterising mitochondrial function in bipolar disorder using neuronal stem cell models.
    Cassie Field - School of Medicine
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    AHI-I and NDRG2 Function in Skeletal Muscle and the Development of Type 2 Diabetes
    Matthew Prior - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2008
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Metabolically Important Secreted Proteins in Psammomys obesus
    Kiymet Bozaoglu - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2008
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Novel Genes in the Muscle of Obese-Diabetic Psammomys obesus
    Anthony Civitarese - School of Health Sciences - 2002
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Novel Secreted Proteins Involved in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
    Kristy Ann Bolton - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2008
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Global Approach to Dissecting Lipid-induced Impairment of Liver Gluconeogenesis
    Brad Hayward - School of Medicine - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Production and Characterisation of Powdered Fibrous Materials
    Bingshan Li - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    HDAC inhibition as a therapeutic potential to treat metabolic diseases
    Vidhi Gaur - School of Medicine - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mitochondrial Target Discovery in Diabetic Skeletal Muscle
    Lyndal Bayles - School of Medicine - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Genetic and Epigenetic Analysis of the Noradrenaline Transporter
    Richard Bayles - School of Medicine - 2011
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Modular Design Framework for Lab-On-a-Chips
    Aung Kyaw Soe - Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Identification and Characterisation of Novel Compound(s) for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
    Subhadhcha Poonsatha - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2007
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Rhotekin 2, a Novel GTPase Effector Involved in Resistance to Apoptosis
    Fiona Collier - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2008
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Novel Hypothalamic Genes Involved in Body Weight Regulation in Psammomys obesus
    Jim Trevaskis - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2004
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Ecology and Evolution of Beak and Feather Disease Virus in Platycercus elegans
    Justin Eastwood - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Innate immunity in the breast and the role of the milk peptidome
    Ashalyn Watt - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Zinc doped ferrite magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent for atherosclerosis
    Rajneesh Chaudhary - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development and Evaluation of a Novel Insulin Analogue
    Anand Khedkar - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    ADAMTS5 expression and function in myoblast fusion and muscle regeneration
    Chris Kintakas - School of Medicine - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The relationship between milk, mammary adipocytes and ECM in regulating murine mammary gland involution
    Sugeetha Ramakrishnan - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Functional Role of Amyloid b42 in Systemic Glucose Metabolism
    Juliane Czeczor - School of Medicine - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Marsupial: A unique model for understanding the regulation of lung development
    Vengama Naidu Modepalli - School of Medicine - 2015