Our people
Our research and education excellence is a reflection of the people behind it. We have research group leaders who are world experts in their field, in addition to many talented researchers, educators and postgraduate students.
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Leadership in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
| Head of Department | Professor John Bertram T: +61 3 9902 9101 E: john.bertram@monash.edu W: Bertram Laboratory |  |
| Personal Assistant to Head of Department | Liz Rowell T: +61 3 9902 9100 E: elizabeth.rowell@monash.edu | |
| Deputy Head of Department (Education) Director, Centre for Human Anatomy Education Head of Teaching and Learning | Associate Professor Michelle Lazarus T: +61 3 9905 0732 E: michelle.lazarus@monash.edu |  |
Deputy Head of Department (Research) | Professor Ian Smyth T: +61 3 9902 9119 E: ian.smyth@monash.edu W: Smyth Laboratory |  |
| Graduate Research Coordinator | Professor Jane Black T: +61 3 9902 9112 E: jane.black@monash.edu W: Black Laboratory | 
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| Graduate Research Coordinator | Associate Professor Priscilla Johanesen T: +61 3 9902 9153 E: priscilla.johanesen@monash.edu | 
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| Honours Convenor | Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou T: +61 3 9905 0262 E: olga.panagiotopoulou@monash.edu W: Panagiotopoulou Laboratory | 
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Our academic and research staff
Our Lab Heads and Group Leaders are listed below. The lab information (click on the links to visit their laboratory websites) showcases the incredible research each of them are doing.
| Name | Lab information | Program membership |
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| Professor Helen Abud | Abud Laboratory Epithelial regeneration | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer; Infection & Immunity |
| Dr Justin Adams | Adams Laboratory Integrated morphology and palaeontology | Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Senthil Arumugam | Arumugam Laboratory Cellular physiology | Development & Stem Cells; Neuroscience |
| Professor John Bertram | Bertram Laboratory Kidney development, programming and disease research group | Development & Stem Cells; Cardiovascular Disease |
| Professor Jane (Mary) Black | Black Laboratory Cardiovascular and renal developmental programming | Development & Stem Cells; Cardiovascular Disease |
| Professor John Carroll | Carroll Laboratory Oocyte and embryo development | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Alex Combes | Combes Laboratory Development and disease | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer |
| Dr Partha Das | Partha Das Laboratory Gene regulation | Development & Stem Cells |
| Associate Professor Luca Fiorenza | Fiorenza Laboratory Palaeodiet research | Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Luc Furic | Furic Laboratory Prostate cancer research | Cancer |
| Dr David Gonsalvez | ||
| Professor Kieran Harvey | Harvey Laboratory Organogenesis and cancer | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Tracy Heng | Heng Laboratory Stem cells and translational immunology | Infection and Immunity; Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Chantal Hoppe | ||
| Associate Professor Karla Hutt | Hutt Laboratory Ovarian biology | Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Dominic De Nardo (Kile Lab) | Kile Laboratory | Development & Stem Cells |
| Associate Professor Michelle Lazarus | Development & Stem Cells | |
| Dr Jie Liu | Liu Laboratory Sensory perception and ageing | Neuroscience; Development & Stem Cells |
| Associate Professor Daniela Loessner | ||
| Dr Jason Massey | ||
| Dr Brent Neumann | Neumann Laboratory Nervous system development and repair | Neuroscience; Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou | Panagiotopoulou Laboratory Moving morphology & functional mechanics | Development & Stem Cells |
| Professor Roger Pocock | Pocock Laboratory Brain development, neuroplasticity and stem cells | Development & Stem Cells; Neuroscience; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Professor José Polo | Polo Laboratory Epigenetics and reprogramming | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease |
| Professor Gail Risbridger | Prostate Cancer Research Group Prostate cancer research | Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
| Associate Professor Craig Smith | Smith Laboratory Comparative development and evo-devo | Development & Stem Cells |
| Professor Ian Smyth | Smyth Laboratory Kidney development and disease | Development & Stem Cells; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Professor Zhicheng Xiao | Xiao Laboratory Neurodegeneration and regeneration | Neuroscience; Development & Stem Cells; Infection & Immunity |
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Our education-focussed academics
| Name | Area of research |
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| Dr Ali Al-Rubaie | |
| Dr Kim Catania | |
| Dr Sonja McKeown | |
| Dr Julia Young |