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Professor Caryl Hill - Curriculum Vitae

Professor 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


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

Research Interests

  • Role of gap junctions in vascular function, particularly in relation to local and spreading vasodilator responses
  • Involvement of voltage dependent and independent mechanisms in nerve mediated vascular responses and spontaneously rhythmical contractions
  • 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

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
1971-1974 1971-1974 Postgraduate research student
Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne

Students

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

Former MSc Students

  • Penelope Linnett, 2002

 

 

Other Former Students

    4 Honours Students
    15 Vacation Students
    Advisor for 5 PhD students

     

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 ($18,967)
to upgrade projection facilities in lecture theatres
2003-2005 National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant ($ 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)
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