ProfessorAlister Ward

Professor of Molecular Medicine

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

  • Professor of Molecular Medicine
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Prof. Ward has significant teaching expertise, previously serving as Course Director and Year 1 & 2 Co-ordinator for Medicine and Course Director for Biomedical Science. He currently teaches into 'Infection, Defence & Repair' in the Medical Course and 'Immunology & Hematology' in Biomedical Sciences, and contributes to the supervision of 3rd year, Intern, Honours and PhD students.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A retrospective analysis of mutations in Indian thalassemia patients: frequency distribution and clinico-pathological characteristics
    Kiran Deshmane - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mechanistic Dissection of Rabies Virus Glycoprotein Induced Synaptogenesis
    Stephanie Olliff - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Understanding Myelodysplastic Syndrome Using Zebrafish as a Model
    Pourya Arbab Jafari - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Are Plastics Making Us Sick? Microplastics and The Immune System
    Telisia Jayne Smith - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigating The Function Of Hematopoietic Cell Kinase (Hck) In Zebrafish Innate Immune Cells.
    Fathima Raiza Lareef - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigating the Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor Receptor and protein tyrosine phosphatase communication networks in leukemia
    Nipuni Dhananja Wanniarachchi - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Functional Characterisation of STAT6 in Haematopoiesis and Disease using Zebrafish
    Tiba Sabri - School of Medicine
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Dissecting the Role of socs Proteins using Zebrafish
    Lynda Anne Kearney - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2009
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Evolution of Class 1 Cytokine Receptor Signalling: Conservation of GCSFR
    Clifford Liongue - School of Medicine - 2009
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    ROLE AND REGULATION OF G-CSF AND ITS RECEPTOR IN MUSCLE
    Craig Wright - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Role of JAK2-Stats-C15 Pathway Components in Zebrafish Development
    Suzita Mohd Noor - School of Medicine - 2011
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Comparative analysis of type III interferon receptor and interferon-stimulated genes
    Kate Goossens - School of Medicine - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Suppressor of cytokine signalling 4 and 5 in zebrafish development
    Monique Trengove - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A nanoliposome-based drug delivery system for cancer
    Jia Lin - School of Medicine - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Aberrant Cytokine Signaling in Ovarian Cancer
    Janani Kumar - School of Medicine - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Expression of anti-viral shRNA molecules in transgenic zebrafish
    Brian Clarke - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Analysis of the stat5 Genes in Zebrafish
    Rowena Lewis - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2007
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Recombinant Influenza virus as HIV vaccine vector
    Mohammed Jasim Mohammed Shallal - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Haematology of Murray Cod: Molecular and Cellular Analysis
    Sarah Shigdar - School of Medicine - 2009
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) in medical student selection
    Michael Dodson - School of Medicine - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Ikaros Gene Family: Characterisation of the `Atypical' Pegasus
    Liza Bernadine Raymond - School of Medicine - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mitochondrial Division in Dictyostelium Discoideum
    Keith Niven - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2011
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Study of Myeloid Leukaemogenesis in Zebrafish
    Sara Onnebo - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2005
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Innate immunity in the breast and the role of the milk peptidome
    Ashalyn Watt - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Dissecting the role of the ETV6 transcriptional regulator in development and disease
    Parisa Rasighaemi - School of Medicine - 2015