Team

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Dr Alastair Keen
Research Fellow
Email: alastair.keen1@monash.edu
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Mr Bonan Liu
Research Assistant
Email: bonan.liu@monash.edu
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Mr Terrance Lam
PhD Student
Email: terrance.lam1@monash.edu
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Ms Chantel Mastos
PhD Student
Email: chantel.mastos1@monash.edu
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Ms Michelle (Xiaomeng) Xu
PhD Student
Email: xiaomeng.xu@monash.edu
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- Mr Bailey Cardwell, Research Assistant
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AlumniResearch highlights from our post-doc and PhD student alumni
Dr Srgjan Civciristov, post-doc from 2013-2019
- Civciristov et al. 2019 Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Civciristov & Halls 2019 British Journal of Pharmacology
- Civciristov et al. 2018 Science Signaling
- Bursary to attend 2018 World Congress of Pharmacology (Kyoto, Japan)
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Dr Cindy Pon, post-doc from 2013-2015
- Pon et al. 2015 FASEB Journal
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Eleonora Comeo, PhD student (completed 2021)
Project based at University of Nottingham (UK) with Professor S Hill, Professor B Kellam, Dr L May, Professor P Scammells
- Comeo et al. 2021 Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- Guest on Dr GPCR podcast (episode #29)
- Guest on RRR Einstein A Go-Go
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Maxine Roberts, PhD student (completed 2020)
Project based at University of Nottingham (UK) with Professor S Charlton
- Roberts et al. 2021 Frontiers in Pharmacology
- Travel award to attend 2018 Molecular Pharmacology of GPCRs meeting (Melbourne, Australia)
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Arisbel Batista-Gondin, PhD student (completed 2019)
- Gondin et al. 2019 Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
- Miess, Gondin et al. 2018 Science Signaling
- Monash postgraduate travel award
- Drug Discovery Biology travel award
- Centre of Membrane Proteins and Receptors (COMPARE) travel award
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Madeline Fletcher, PhD student (completed 2019)
Project based at DDB with Associate Professor D Wootten and Professor P Sexton
- Fletcher et al. 2018 Biochemical Pharmacology
- Fletcher et al. 2016 Biochemical Society Transactions
- Monash postgraduate travel award
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Christina Lucato, PhD student (completed 2018)
Project based at Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute with Dr A Ellisdon
- 2018 Monash BDI best thesis nomination
- Lucato et al. 2017 Journal of Molecular Biology
- Lucato et al. 2015 Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Poster prize at Lorne Proteins 2015
- Guest on RRR Einstein A Go-Go
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Sheng Yu Ang, PhD student (completed 2017)
Project based at DDB with Dr D Hutchinson, Dr M Kocan, Professor R Summers
- Ang et al. 2017 British Journal of Pharmacology
- Monash postgraduate travel award
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Collaborators
We collaborate with many scientists and research organisations around the world. Some of our national and international collaborators are listed in alphabetical order below.

Monash University
- Dr Victor J Cadarso, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University
- Dr Andrew M Ellisdon, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
- Dr Harald Janovjak, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
- Prof Christina A Mitchell, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
- Prof Adrian Neild, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University
- Prof Chris JH Porter, Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics Theme, MIPS
- Prof Martin J Scanlon, Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action Theme, MIPS
- Dr Ralf Schittenhelm, Monash Proteomics Facility
- A/Prof Erica K Sloan, Drug Discovery Biology Theme, MIPS
International
- Prof Nigel W Bunnett, New York University, USA
- Prof Meritxell Canals, University of Nottingham, UK
- Prof Steven Charlton, University of Nottingham, UK
- A/Prof Gerald RV Hammond, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Prof Stephen Hill, University of Nottingham, UK
- Servier Laboratories, France