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ProfessorJeffrey Craig

(He/Him)

Professor in Epigenetics and Cell Biology

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

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  • Professor in Epigenetics and Cell Biology
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • +61 3 522 78655 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The role of epigenetics and microbiomes in the mediation of early life
environment on risk for chronic disease

Planetary Health/One Health

The ethics of epigenetics and the early life origins of health and disease

Twin research

Neurodevelopmental disorders

Knowledge Areas
Epigenetics, cytology, twins, developmental origins of health and disease,
birth cohorts, biosampling, microbiome, planetary health

Projects
The Peri/postnatal Epigenetic Twin Study - a longitudinal birth cohort to
study the links between early life environment, epigenetics and chronic
disease risk

Can men's stress influence cognition and disease risk in their children? A
twin study

The UNIQUE study: generating epigenetic biomarkers for neurodevelopmental
disorders using a within twin pair model

How does DNA methylation at birth reflect different patterns of alcohol
exposure in pregnancy?

Ethical, legal and social implications of epigenetics and development origins
of health and disease

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Exploring Gut-Brain Connections: Investigating Modifiable Microbial Determinants of Neurodevelopment in Mid-Childhood: A Twin Study Approach
    1 Oct 2024 - 31 Aug 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Biostime Institute Nutrition and Care Research Grant - $161,152.14
  • GRANT
    Targeting outcomes of adolescent disordered eating: identifying and integrating novel molecular and biopsychosocial risk models.
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cohen-Woods S,
    • Allen K,
    • Craig J,
    • Scurrah K,
    • Goulter N
    NHMRC - Ideas Grant - 2030216 - $60,000.00
  • GRANT
    The role of epigenetics in brain developmental trajectories and clinical outcomes in ADHD
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    NHMRC - Ideas Grant - 2029361 - $587,349.20
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Food intake and epigenetic alterations of spermatozoa in twins
    14 Feb 2022 - 30 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    University of Copenhagen - $280,255.00
  • GRANT
    Diet and the microbiome: implications for neurodevelopment in early to mid-childhood
    1 Jan 2022 - 30 Sep 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Waterloo Foundation - Child Development - 2013-4500 - $89,728.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Three-year formal review of the implementation of the National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Strategic Action Plan 2018-2028.
    8 Oct 2021 - 27 Jun 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Australian Government Department of Health - $149,954.54
  • GRANT
    Student application - Stool cytology - a new frontier of non-invasive bowel cancer screening
    1 Mar 2021 - 1 Sep 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Craig J,
    • Ryan L
    Australian Rotary Health PhD scholarship - $66,000.00
  • GRANT
    Targeting the Genome and Epigenome of the exercising skeletal muscle
    1 Apr 2019 - 31 Mar 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Eynon N,
    • Craig J,
    • Voisin S
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP190103081 - $75,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluation of Oral Collection Methodologies and Their Effect on Sample Cellular Composition and DNA Methylation Array Performance.
    4 Mar 2019 - 20 Jul 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Jeffrey Craig
    DNA Genotek Inc - CONTR2019/00430 - $28,500.00
  • GRANT
    The microstructural basis of DCD and its co-occurrence with ADHD: an advanced constrained deconvolution
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 May 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Waterloo Foundation - Child Development - 2013-3613 - $153,636.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Identifying Biomarkers of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain.
    The Royal Australasian College of Physicians19 Nov 2018 - 19 Nov 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Craig J,
    • Lappas M,
    • Sumithran P
    The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Fellowships
  • GRANT
    Using epigenetics to predict the onset and different development trajectories in ADHD
    18 Jun 2018 - 30 Jul 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Waterloo Foundation - Child Development - $105,005.26
  • GRANT
    Gen(e)quality
    Deakin University Research Network (DURN)1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    $110,000
  • GRANT
    Quantifying the role of epigenetic factors in neurocognitive outcomes: a twin study
    1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Craig J,
    • Seal M,
    • Silk T,
    • Burnett A,
    • Theda C
    NHMRC Project Grant - APP1146333 - $897,514.79
  • GRANT
    Australian Centre of Excellence in Twin Research
    1 Dec 2014 - 30 Nov 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hopper J,
    • Craig J,
    • Mackey D,
    • Byrne B,
    • Simpson S
    NHMRC - Centres of Research Excellence - APP1079102 - $12,000.00