Associate ProfessorMatthew McKenzie

Associate Professor

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
  • +61 3 522 73015 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Human Disease, Metabolism

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE222- Biochemical Metabolism
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    How to Start a Clock: Ontogeny of Circadian Rhythms in Chicken Embryos and the Developmental Consequences
    Caleb Wellard - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Reactive Oxygen Species
    Saima Iram - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The influence of air pollutants and climate parameters on the environmental abundance of airborne allergens in Australian and UK
    Dimple Pathania - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    On the reproducibility of functional enrichment analysis
    Anusuiya Bora - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigating how mitochondrial fatty acid dehydrogenase enzymes cause mitochondrial disease
    Shashwat Sharma - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Face Mask Microplastics: From User Behaviour to Health Effects
    David Ifeanyi Anene - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Toxicity of 3D printing micro- and nano-plastics on human respiratory system
    Niromi Nithya Dabarera Warnakulasuriya - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Virulence Determinants of Australian Henipaviruses
    Emily Dowling - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of the avian clock: gene expression to functional control of reproductive timing.
    Tennison Gurumayum - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigating the metastatic potential of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils
    Florence Nadine B Pirard - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Deciphering the role of miRNA cluster miR-127/136 in cervical cancer
    Roopal Behera - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Ultrastructural Investigation of Virus Replication Factories in Infected Cells
    Tayla Lilly Gibson - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigating the relationship of fatty acid oxidation enzymes in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) disorders.
    Hamish Wild - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Acoustic Developmental Programming of Behavioural and Physiological Responses to Heat
    Eve Udino - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Primary defects in ECHS1 cause mitochondrial OXPHOS defects
    Harrison Burgin - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Face-Off: Competition Between Two Transmissible Cancers in Tasmanian Devils
    Anne-Lise Pascale F. Gerard - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigation of phthalate esters and bis(2-ethylhexyl) adipate in the atmosphere and their toxicological effects
    Cristian Ryan Arbolado Argamino - School of Engineering - 2026
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Inhibition of the Pro-Inflammatory Interleukin Cytokines for Allergy Treatment
    Oliver Massey - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2026