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Associate Professor

Kathryn Aston-Mourney

Associate Professor in Human Biology

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

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  • Associate Professor in Human Biology
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • +61 3 522 72977 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Kat Aston-Mourney is a researcher passionate about finding better treatments and cures for diabetes, and training our next generation of researchers and clinicians.

 

Kat obtained her PhD in Medical Research from the University of Melbourne in 2007 and undertook a 5-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA before relocating her research program to Deakin University School of Medicine in 2011. 

She currently heads the Islet Biology Research Laboratory supervising several honours and PhD candidates and is the deputy theme lead for Molecular Medicine within the Institute of Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT).  


Kat is also a lecturer in Medical Science, running the Human Biology block in the first year of the MD degree, and is a senior leader of graduate research degrees in the Faculty of Health.

 

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

Currently only accepting expressions of interest from domestic candidates. 

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Associate Professor in Human Biology
    Deakin University, School of Medicine

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Deakin University, School of Medicine, Australia2011 - Dec 2013
  • McAbee Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    University of Washington, Diabetes Endocrinology Research Centre, Seattle, United States2007 - 2011

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours)
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia2002
  • Graduate Certificate of Higher Education Learning and Teaching
    Deakin University, Geelong, Australia2015

CERTIFICATIONS

  • First Aid
    St Johns Theatre, Listowel, Ireland2011 - present
  • Mental Health First Aider
    Mental Health First Aid Australia2015 - present

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Public health
  • Biochemistry and cell biology
  • Endocrinology
  • Biological sciences
  • Cell development, proliferation and death
  • Cell metabolism
  • Cellular interactions (incl. adhesion, matrix, cell wall)
  • Biological network analysis
  • Clinical sciences
  • Animal physiology - cell
  • Animal physiology - systems
  • Medical physiology

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 Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

RESEARCH STRENGTHS