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The Australian National University
The John Curtin School of Medical Research
ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment

Group Members

Predictive Medicine Group
Simon Easteal, Susan Tan, Mace Neve, Saul Newman
Also (not pictured):

Nic Cherbuin (Visiting Fellow)
Zoe Prichard (Visiting Fellow)
Brendan Scott (Visiting Fellow)
Karen Mather (Visiting Scholar)

Current and Recent Students


Phil Chipman (PhD): ‘Genotype-environment interactions in determining common forms of mental illness associated with anxiety and depression.’
Karen Mather (PhD) ‘Telomere length variation and age related decline in a large population sample.’
Jinghua Feng (PhD) ‘Mapping the relationship between natural selection and human diseases.’
Ray Sammut (PhD) ‘A two pair-Hidden Markov Model approach to sequence alignment.’
Wendyl D’Souza (PhD, Massey University) ‘Genetic epidemiology of epilepsy.’
Mace Neve (Hons) ‘The role of oxytocin in social/sexual behaviour: a study of naturally occurring variation in the human oxytocin receptor gene.’
Saul Newman (Hons) ‘The evolution of candidate genes for variation in cranial morphology.’
Zoe Prichard (PhD 2007) ‘Genotype- environment interactions determining antisocial behaviour.’
Daniel MacArthur (PhD, U.Syd 2007) ‘Evolution of functional variation in the human alpha actinin 3 gene.’
Nerida Harley (PhD 2007) ‘Human evolution in New Guinea.’
Brendan Scott (PhD 2006) ‘Evolution of malaria resistance in New Guinea.’
Ganymede Jung (Hons 2007) ‘Effect of microsatellite variation on human vasopressin receptor 1a gene expression.’
Chris Gyngell (Hons 2007) ‘The role of mitochondrial haplogroups and apoptosis regulatory genes in age-related decline.’