SEMINAR: "Mitochondrial biogenesis: dynamic complexes for a dynamic organelle"

Mike joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University in 2014. Before this, he was at La Trobe University (2000-2014) including as head of the Department of Biochemistry (2010-2013). Mike has always had an interest in mitochondrial biology, starting as a PhD student with Peter Hoj and Nick Hoogenraad (La Trobe/Adelaide) and then as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with Klaus Pfanner (Freiburg, Germany).

His lab employs biochemical, cellular and systems approaches to investigate mitochondrial function and defects in disease and also the machinery involved in mitochondrial dynamics. Mike serves on a number of committees including as a member for the Scientific and Medical Advisory Panel for the Australian Mitochondria Disease Foundation (AMDF) and on the National Committee for Biomedical Science, AAS. He was president of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB, 2015-2016).