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Professor Caryl Hill - Curriculum Vitae
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Caryl E HILL
Head, Blood Vessel Group
Contact: Division of Neuroscience, JCSMR
GPO Box 334, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Phone: 02 6125 2996 | Fax : 02 6125 8077
Email:caryl.hill@anu.edu.au
Current Appointments
Academic Qualifications
Research Interests
Previous Appointments
Students
Grants and Awards
Publications
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Current
Appointments
2002-present Professor and Head of Blood Vessel Group
2003-2005 Head of Division of Neuroscience,
John Curtin School of Medical Research
2003-2010 Editor, Journal of Physiology (London)
Academic Qualifications
2000 DSc University of Melbourne
1975 PhD University of Melbourne
1971 BSc (Hons I) University of Melbourne
DSc Thesis Title Autonomic neuroeffector junctions: studies during
development and maturity
PhD Thesis Title Tissue culture of autonomic neuroeffector systems
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Research Interests
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Role of gap junctions in vascular function, particularly
in relation to local and spreading vasodilator responses
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Involvement of voltage dependent and independent
mechanisms in nerve mediated vascular responses and spontaneously
rhythmical contractions
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Changes in vascular responses during hypertension
and diabetes
Key Words Gap junction, connexin, endothelium derived hyperpolarizing
factor (EDHF), IP3, vascular function, vasomotion, calcium oscillations
Previous
Appointments
| April–July, 2002 |
Visiting Associate Professor,
John B. Pierce Laboratory,
Yale University School of Medicine |
| 1999-2002 |
Senior Fellow,
Tenured Appointment,
Division of Neuroscience,
JCSMR |
| August 1998 to March, 1999 |
Head of Division of Neuroscience, JCSMR |
| 1999-2001 |
Elected Chair of the JCSMR Faculty, 2terms |
| 1994–1999 |
Senior Fellow,
Renewable Fixed Term Appointment, JCSMR |
| 1991-1994 |
Fellow,
Division of Neuroscience,
JCSMR |
| 1989 |
Visiting Fellow,
Division of Biology,
California Institute of Technology,
California USA
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| 1985-1991 |
Senior Research Fellow, JCSMR |
| 1982-1985 |
Research Fellow,
Department of Pharmacology,
JCSMR |
| 1979-1981 |
Research Fellow of the National Heart Foundation of
Australia,
Department of Pharmacology, JCSMR |
| 1978-1979 |
Overseas Research Fellow of the National Heart Foundation
of Australia,
Department of Pharmacology,
JCSMR |
| 1977-1978 |
Overseas Research Fellow of the National Heart Foundation
of Australia,
Department of Anatomy and Embryology,
University College London |
| 1974-1977 |
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Neurobiology,
Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU
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| 1971-1974 |
1971-1974 Postgraduate research student
Department of Zoology,
University of Melbourne |
Students
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Current PhD Students
- Ivana Kuo at present
- Amanda Chua at present
Former PhD Students
- Manuel Navarro-Gonzalez, 2008, Postdoctoral fellow, Blood Vessel Group,
JCSMR
- Jianhong Zhang, Thesis submitted April 2006
- Rebecca Haddock,2005, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New South
Wales
- Nicole Rummery, PhD, 2004, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Nottingham,
UK
- Shaun Sandow, PhD, 1999, Peter Doherty Fellow (NH&MRC), 2001-2005
- Jacqueline Phillips, PhD, 1999, Lecturer, Veterinary Physiology, Murdoch
University, WA
- Dianna Gould, PhD, 1996, CJ Martin Travelling Fellow (NH&MRC),
1997-2002
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Former MSc Students
Other Former Students
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Grants and Awards
| 2006-2008 |
ARC Project Grant ($275,000) |
| 2004-2005 |
2004-2005 National Heart Foundation, Grant-in-Aid ($
99,365) |
2004 |
Australian National University Teaching Equipment
Grant ($18,967)
to upgrade projection facilities in lecture theatres
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| 2003-2005 |
National Health and Medical Research Council
Project Grant ($ 270,000) |
| 2002-2003 |
National Heart Foundation, Grant-in-Aid ($
92 735) |
| 2002 |
Promotion: Professor, Australian National
University |
| 2002 |
The Research Career Enhancement Award of the
American Physiological Society |
| 2001 |
Servier Research International, Axon Instruments,
John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
for expenses of overseas speakers to symposium at 7th World Congress for
Microcirculation, 2001 ($ 11, 000) |
| 2001 |
Ramaciotti Foundations for Biomedical Research,
Equipment grant ($10 000) |
| 2001-2003 |
The Wellcome Trust, Collaborative Travel Grant with
Dr. K. Dora, University of Bath, £17, 430 ($ 51, 265) |
| 2000-2001 |
National Heart Foundation, Grant-in-Aid ($ 89,100) |
| 2000 |
Graduate Course on Science Communication |
| 1999 |
Australian Research Council RIEF program and Major Equipment
Fund, ANU: Apparatus for imaging real time changes in calcium and other
fluorescently tagged proteins ($176,860) |
| 1998 |
Australian Research Council RIEF program and Major Equipment
Fund, ANU, with Dr B. Walmsley for imaging software package ($100,000) |
| 1997 |
World Health Organisation for a WHO Fellow to undertake
a project in the laboratory ($9,307) |
| 1997 |
Private Practice Fund, Woden Valley Hospital. Collaborative
work with Professor A. McLean, Department of Geriatric Medicine ($14,742) |
| 1997 |
Private Practice Fund, Woden Valley Hospital. Collaborative
work with Professor A. McLean, Department of Geriatric Medicine ($18,956) |
| 1996 |
Australian Universities Research Collaboration Scheme.
Collaborative work with Professor G.D.S. Hirst, University of Melbourne
($3,452) |
| 1995 |
Australian Universities Research Collaboration Scheme.
Collaborative work with
Dr M. Christie, University of Sydney ($3,710)
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| 1994 |
Australian Universities Research Collaboration Scheme.
Collaborative work with Professor G.D.S. Hirst, University of Melbourne
($1,600) |
| 1979 |
Research Fellowship, National Heart Foundation (3 years) |
| 1977 |
Overseas Research Fellowship, National Heart Foundation
of Australia (2 years) |
| 1971 |
Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award |
| 1970 |
Howitt Natural History Prize, University of Melbourne |
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