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Dr

Bernhard Dichtl

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • +61 3 925 17060 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Unit chair SLE212 Biochemistry Unit chair SLE222 Biochemical Metabolism Course
Director Bachelor of Biomedical Science

Dr Dichtl did his PhD studies at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
(EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany and at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
working on the molecular toxicity of lithium and the processing of ribosomal
RNA and transfer RNA precursors. Supported by an EMBO long-term fellowship he
then took up post-doctoral work at the Biocenter, in Basel Switzerland where
he studied the mechanisms of pre-mRNA polyadenylation and transcription
termination. A highly competitive and prestigious Foerderprofessur grant of
the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) allowed him to establish his own
research group at the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of
Zurich, Switzerland. There, he expanded his research activities to the
analyses of chromatin modifying enzymes and the assembly of multi-protein
complexes. Dr Dichtl's laboratory relocated to Deakin University at the end of
2010. In 2014 he won an ARC Discovery Project grant to study the mechanisms of
protein complex formation.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Edinburgh
  • GCHE Exempt
    Deakin University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Genetics
  • Biochemistry and cell biology
  • Animal cell and molecular biology
  • Medical biochemistry - nucleic acids

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Life and Environmental Sciences

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation