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DR JUNHUA XIAO



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW
Email:
Work: 8344 7572
Fax: 9349 4432
Room: 718
Level: 07
Building: Medical Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Myelination mechanism Peripheral and Central Myelination Australia
Glial cell Biology Oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells Australia
Neurotrophin signalling Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Vanderbilt University Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medicine Nanjing Medical University 04-Jul-2000
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 14-Dec-2005

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Society of Neuroscience ( The United States of America) Perfessional membership 17-Jul-2008
Member Australian Neuroscience Society Member 31-Jan-2006

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Education Department of China National Award for Outstanding Chinese Overseas Student 29-May-2005
Scholarship The University of Melbourne Melbourne international fee remission scholarship 15-Dec-2001
Scholarship The University of Melbourne Melbourne international research scholarship 15-Dec-2001
Prize Nanjing Medical University (China) Excellent Postgraduate Student 06-Jul-2001
Prize Nanjing Medical University (China) Excellent Graduate Student 06-Jul-2000
Other (Award) Nanjing Medical University (China) Excellent and Outstanding Intern 06-Jul-2000

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
NHMRC PETER DOHERTY/MSA- BETTY CUTHBERT FELLOWSHIP - (THE ROLE OF BDNF AND PRO-BDNF IN REGULATING MYELINATION) Chief Investigator NHMRC Training (Postdoctoral) Fellowships 01/01/2007
ROLE OF THE LINGO-1/P75NTR AXIS IN MODULATING MYELINATION Chief Investigator MS AUSTRALIA Postdoctoral Fellowships 01/01/2007
THE ROLE OF BDNF IN CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MYELINATION Chief Investigator MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH AUSTRALIA Project Grant 01/01/2009
Promoting central nervous system myelination Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2010

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 2009

Journal Articles

  • BDNF Exerts Contrasting Effects on Peripheral Myelination
    of NGF-Dependent and BDNF-Dependent DRG Neurons
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 4016-4022
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  • The Role of Neurotrophins in the Regulation of Myelin Development
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neurosignals
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Neurotrophin receptor homolog-2 regulates nerve growth factor signaling
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry
    Volume: 106
    Page numbers: 1964-76
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Novel Development-Related Alternative Splices in Human
    Testis Identified by cDNA Microarrays
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Andrology
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 189-196
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Evidence that a major site of expression of the rho-gtpase activating protein, oligophrenen-1, is peripheral myelin
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 124
    Page numbers: 781-787
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Molecular and functional analysis of hyperpolarisation-activated nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels in the enteric nervous system
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 603-614
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Projections and chemistry of Dogiel type II neurons in the mouse colon
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cell and Tissue Research
    Volume: 317
    Page numbers: 1-12
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Okigophrenin-1, a Rho GTPase-Activating Protein (RhoGAP) Involved in X-Linked Mental Retardation, Is Expressed in the Enteric Nervous System
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Anatomical Record
    Volume: 273A
    Issue: Part A
    Page numbers: 671-676
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