SEMINAR: "Using genetics to understand the molecular pathways to diabetes�

Gerard Hoyne joined the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2009 and was appointed the Associate Dean of Health Sciences. Gerard completed his BSc and PhD at The University of Western Australia and has worked extensively in academic research with stints at Imperial college, London and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom between 1993 and 2002 within the field of immunology. From 2002-2009 I was a lab head at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the ANU in Canberra where I directed a ENU mutagenesis screening program to identify genes involved in the development of diabetes. My research work has mainly focused on how the immune system regulates immune responses to self and foreign proteins, but more recently has also extended into T cell memory. The talk will focus on the discovery of two genes that emerged from the ENU mutagenesis screening program that regulates type 2 diabetes.