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PROF ROGER VALENTINE SHORT



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Zoology
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow), Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Work: 9344 3370
Fax: 9347 2472
Building: No Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Human Reproduction Contraceptive, AIDS, HIV prevention Australia, United States of America, Thailand

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Title Not Known University of Cambridge

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRANZCOG)
Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG)
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh (FRCP(ED))
Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (FRCVS)
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSEDIN)

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Marsupial germ cells and genes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Use of the Australian milk biscuit to combat malnutrition and HIV/AIDS: pilot trial & commercialisation Principal Supervisor GEOFFREY GARDINER DAIRY FOUND Small Project Grants (GARDINER FOUNDATION) 21/07/2004
Extrinsic control of mammalian germ cell delineation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • In memoriam Anne McLaren
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Developmental Biology
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 1-2
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  • Topical oestrogen keratinises the human foreskin and may help prevent HIV infection
    Year: 2008
    Journal: PLoS One
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: e2308
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Foetal age determination and development in elephants
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 274
    Page numbers: 323-331
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Foetal age determination and development in elephants
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 274
    Page numbers: 323-331
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  • New ways of preventing HIV infection: thinking simply, simply thinking
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 361
    Page numbers: 811-820
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  • Potential HIV-1 target cells in the human penis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: AIDS
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1491-1495
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  • Sperm immobilizing qualities of lemon juice
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Fertility and Sterility
    Volume: 85
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1529-1530
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Sexual differentiation in three unconventional mammals: spotted hyenas, elephants and tammar wallabies
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Hormones and Behavior
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 403-417
    Publisher: Academic Press
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  • Use of lemon or lime juice douches in women in Jos, Nigeria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Sexual Health
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 237-239
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A contraceptive pill for men? A book review
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 181
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 90
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Functional analysis of the cooled rat testis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Andrology
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 57-67
    Publisher: American Society of Andrology(Kansas)
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  • Male circumcision: a scientific perspective
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 241
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Stopping aids in Africa
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Melbourne University Magazine
    Volume: 2004
    Page numbers: 21-23
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Teaching safe sex in English schools
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 364
    Page numbers: 307-308
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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  • The HIV/AIDS pandemic: new ways of preventing infection in men
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Reproduction, Fertility and Development
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 555-559
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • The time has come for common ground on preventing sexual transmission of HIV
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 364
    Page numbers: 1913-1915
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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  • Why can't a woman be more like a man?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 15-20
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • The magic and mystery of the oocyte: ex ovo omnia
    Year: 2003
    Book: Biology and Pathology of the Oocyte
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Everything you need to know about sex....
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 16-17
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Fetal lung development in the elephant reflects the adaptations required for snorkeling in adult life
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology
    Volume: 138
    Page numbers: 325-333
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Successful intra- and interspecific male germ cell transplantation in the rat
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Biology of Reproduction
    Volume: 68
    Page numbers: 961-967
    Publisher: Society for the Study of Reproduction(Wisconsin)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • An effective Australian-Chinese peer education program on HIV/AIDS/STDs for university students in China
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Reproductive Medicine
    Volume: 11
    Issue: Suppl 1
    Page numbers: 7-12
    Publisher: Peking Union Medical Coll Hosp National Res Inst for Family Planning(Beijing)
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  • Do the locomotion
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Nature
    Volume: 418
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 137
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers(London)
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  • How oestrogen or progesterone might change a woman's susceptibility to HIV-1 infection
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 472-475
    Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology(East Melbourne)
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  • Long-term fertility control in the kangaroo and the wallaby using levonorgestrel implants
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Reproduction
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 71-80
    Publisher: Society of Reproduction and Fertility(Cambridge)
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  • Mammalian mitogenomic relationships and the root of the eutherian tree
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 99
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 8151-8156
    Publisher: National Academy of Sciences(Washington DC)
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  • Near - term impact of peer education for AIDS among first-year medical students
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Chinese Journal of School Health
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 218-220
    Publisher: Serial Journal of Chinese Preventive Medical Association
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  • The acoustics of African and Asiatic elephant infrasonic communication
    Year: 2002
    Journal: The Physicist
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 17-19
    Publisher: The Australian Institute of Physics(Cronulla)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Control of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) fertility with cabergoline: dose response and timing of intervention
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Reproduction
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 147 - 154
    Publisher: Society of Reproduction and Fertility(Cambridge)
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