Today we welcome Dr Gursimran Chandhok to the Neumann lab!!

Simran completed her PhD in Hartmut Schmidt's lab at the University of Muenster, Germany. Her research focused on the characterization of different ATP7B mutants identified in patients with Wilson disease (a rare metabolic liver disorder) 

In the Neumann lab, Simran will join the CMT team, aiming to discover novel genetic modifiers of the gene that causes CMT type 2A.
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You can find out more about Simran's doctoral research and previous publications here.

Ming has been awarded a highly competitive Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute travel award!

This award will allow Ming to present her research at the 2017 International C. elegans meeting held in Los Angeles in June.

Congratulations Ming!

The paper that Brent co-authored with Roger Pocock's group has now been published in PNAS!!

This research shows how a specific protein (the ETS-5 transcription factor) controls intestinal fat levels to mediate behaviour in C. elegans.  This research has strong implications for our understanding of how the brain and intestines communicate to change behaviour, and could lead to future breakthroughs for tackling obesity.

See details in our publications page here.