Hudson Seminar, "Muscle stem cell action during growth and regeneration", 1 December

1 December, 12-1pm, Lecture Theatre 1, Monash Medical Centre
Speaker:  Professor Peter Currie, Director, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University 

Light refreshments to follow presentation outside the Lecture Theatre.

Peter D. Currie received his PhD in Drosophila genetics from Syracuse University, New York, USA. He undertook
postdoctoral training in zebrafish development at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) in London, UK. He has worked as an independent laboratory head at the UK Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh, UK and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia where he headed a research programme focused on skeletal muscle development and regeneration.

His work is centred on understanding how the small freshwater zebrafish is able to build and regenerate both skeletal and cardiac muscle. 

In 2016 he was appointed Director of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a recipient of a European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigators Award
and a Welcome Trust International Research Fellowship and currently is a Principal Research Fellow with the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia.