Presented By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center
Prechter Seminar: "The ups and downs through the complex world of bipolar disorder genetics: Can we use genetics to help predict illness?"
featuring Jan Fullerton, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Neuroscience Research Australia
Jan Fullerton, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Neuroscience Research Australia
Janette Mary O’Neil Research Fellow
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Talk title:
"The ups and downs through the complex world of bipolar disorder genetics: Can we use genetics to help predict illness?"
In 2001, Jan Fullerton completed her Ph.D. in human genetics at The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne (Australia) under the supervision of Professor Bob Williamson and Dr. Sue Forrest.
She then spent five years as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Jonathan Flint at The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford (UK), where she developed her career interest in psychiatric genetics. That work focused particularly around complex trait genetic analysis to identify genes contributing to personality, depression and anxiety in both humans and mice.
She returned to Australia in 2005 on a NHMRC Howard Florey Fellowship, which allowed her to join Professor Peter Schofield’s group at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, and then Neuroscience Research Australia, to study the genetics of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
She holds a conjoint Senior Lecturer appointment in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in her home town of Sydney, Australia. She was awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Award in 2007, and a UNSW Dean’s Rising Star Award in 2014, after securing two competitive category 1 project grants as CIA from the NHMRC that year. She became a group leader in 2013, and runs a number of gene discovery projects involving both rare and common DNA variation, including genome sequencing of familial bipolar disorder, genome-wide association studies, genetic effects on variation in cortical structure.
Together with Melvin McInnis, M.D., and the Bipolar High Risk Consortium comprising researchers from UNSW, Michigan, Indiana, Johns Hopkins & WUSTL, she is examining whether individual predictive capacity for those at high risk of bipolar disorder can be enhanced for youth who are family-history positive.
She is a member of a number of international consortia including the Bipolar Sequencing Consortium, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Consortium for Lithium Genomics, and the Bipolar High Risk Consortium.
Space is limited and we are ordering lunch, so please RSVP by 11/17, here: http://doodle.com/poll/ugm9md564utx5trm
Senior Research Scientist, Neuroscience Research Australia
Janette Mary O’Neil Research Fellow
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Talk title:
"The ups and downs through the complex world of bipolar disorder genetics: Can we use genetics to help predict illness?"
In 2001, Jan Fullerton completed her Ph.D. in human genetics at The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne (Australia) under the supervision of Professor Bob Williamson and Dr. Sue Forrest.
She then spent five years as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Jonathan Flint at The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford (UK), where she developed her career interest in psychiatric genetics. That work focused particularly around complex trait genetic analysis to identify genes contributing to personality, depression and anxiety in both humans and mice.
She returned to Australia in 2005 on a NHMRC Howard Florey Fellowship, which allowed her to join Professor Peter Schofield’s group at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, and then Neuroscience Research Australia, to study the genetics of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
She holds a conjoint Senior Lecturer appointment in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in her home town of Sydney, Australia. She was awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Award in 2007, and a UNSW Dean’s Rising Star Award in 2014, after securing two competitive category 1 project grants as CIA from the NHMRC that year. She became a group leader in 2013, and runs a number of gene discovery projects involving both rare and common DNA variation, including genome sequencing of familial bipolar disorder, genome-wide association studies, genetic effects on variation in cortical structure.
Together with Melvin McInnis, M.D., and the Bipolar High Risk Consortium comprising researchers from UNSW, Michigan, Indiana, Johns Hopkins & WUSTL, she is examining whether individual predictive capacity for those at high risk of bipolar disorder can be enhanced for youth who are family-history positive.
She is a member of a number of international consortia including the Bipolar Sequencing Consortium, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Consortium for Lithium Genomics, and the Bipolar High Risk Consortium.
Space is limited and we are ordering lunch, so please RSVP by 11/17, here: http://doodle.com/poll/ugm9md564utx5trm
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