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Affiliate Research Fellow
Hilliard lab
Queensland Brain Institute
"I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Robert Parton’s laboratory at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, and an Affiliate Research Fellow in the Hilliard Lab at the Queensland Brain Institute."
"I hope that these pieces stir up the curiosity within you. Curiosity is the main engine that propels the expansion of our knowledge and ultimately drives us to live better lives."
Here you see 3 worms smaller than a millimetre, with the sticky parts of its skin painted pink and its touch sensing-neurons painted green. Can you tell which one is smiling at the camera?
The nervous system is a complex and organised network of cables that accomodate to all the twists and turns of the body's internal structural landscape. Here you see all of these cables in the head of a roundworm, C. elegans.
A tribute to the Aussie summer with living worms. The yellow spots are where their skin DNA is stored. In red, the touch sensing nerve cells.
After cut, neurons (blue) extend elaborate arbours trying to reach their disconnected half. The tissue surrounding them (magenta) functions as railways guiding regeneration.
"I am focused on discovering how cells maintain their major barrier against the outside world, the membrane, and how they defend against invading bugs.
I've found that nature has often already solved most of the problems we think of. You just need to know how to ask and be a good listener. My job is to ask and listen."
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