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Professor Caryl Hill - Curriculum Vitae
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Caryl E HILL
Leader, Blood Vessel Group
Contact: Neuroscience Program, 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 Leader of Blood Vessel Laboratory,
Neuroscience Program, The John Curtin School of Medical Research,
The Australian National University.
2003-2010 Editor, Journal of Physiology (London)
2007-2009 Editor, Journal of Vascular Research
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
| 2003-2005 |
Head of Division of Neuroscience,
JCSMR |
| April–July, 2002 |
Visiting Associate Professor,
John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine |
| 1999-2002 |
Senior Fellow,
Division of Neuroscience, JCSMR |
| 1994–1999 |
Senior Fellow,
Division of Neuroscience, 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,
Department of Pharmacology, JCSMR |
| 1982-1985 |
Research Fellow,
Department of Pharmacology, JCSMR |
| 1979-1981 |
Research Fellow of the National Heart Foundation of
Australia
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| 1977-1979 |
Overseas Research Fellow of the National Heart Foundation
of Australia
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| 1974-1977 |
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Neurobiology,
Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU
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| 1971-1974 |
PhD,
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, PhD, 2008
- Jianhong Zhang, PhD, 2006
- Rebecca Haddock, PhD, 2005
- Nicole Rummery, PhD, 2004
- Shaun Sandow, PhD, 1999
- Jacqueline Phillips, PhD, 1999
- Dianna Gould, PhD, 1996
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Former MSc Students
Other Former Students
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Grants and Awards
| 2008-2010 |
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant,
The role of connexins in blood pressure regulation: Use of a conditional
gene expression system. ($560,500) |
| 2008-2010 |
National Health and Medical Research Council Project
Grant, Voltage dependent calcium channels and vascular function: do microdomains
determine function? ($573,625) |
| 2006-2008 |
ARC Project Grant ($275,000) |
| 2006 |
National Health and Medical Research Council Equipment
Grant, ($21,530) |
| 2004-2005 |
National Heart Foundation, Grant-in-Aid ($ 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) |
| 2003 |
National Health and Medical Research Council Equipment Grant, ($43,911)
for digital imaging facility. |
| 2002-2003 |
National Heart Foundation, Grant-in-Aid ($ 92 735) |
| 2002 |
Promotion: Professor, Australian National University |
| 2002 |
The Research Career Enhancement Award of the American Physiological Society
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| 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 |
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