Dr Simon Koblar BM BS, PhD, FRACP

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Staff
Dr Warren Flood, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Anne Hamilton-Bruce, Principal Medical Scientist
Ms Colleen Bindloss, Stem Cell Research Support Person
Mr Austin Milton, Medical Scientist

Higher Degree students
Ms Edwina Ashby - PhD
Ms Chathurani Jayasena - PhD
Ms Amanda West - PhD
Ms Agnes Stokowski - PhD
Mr Peter McCarthy - Hon

Current Funded Research
2003 - 2005 ARC Special Research Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development $3 million  

Most recent publications
1. Koblar SA, Krull CE, Pasquale EB, Peale FD, Cerretti DP, Bothwell M. Spinal motor axons and neural crest cells use different molecular guides for segmental migration through the rostral half-somite. J Neurobiol 42, 2000, 437-447.

2. .Karam SD, Burrows RC, Logan C, Koblar SA, Pasquale EB, Bothwell M. Ephs and ephrins in the developing chick cerebellum: relationship to sagittal patterning and granule cell migration J Neurosci 20, 2000, 6488-6500.

3. Coulthard MG, Lickliter JD, Subanesan N, Chen K, Webb GC, Lowry AJ, Koblar SA, Bottema CDK, Boyd AW. Characterization of the EphA1 receptor tyrosine kinase: expression in epithelial tissues. Growth Factors. 18, 2001, 303-317.

4. Varelias A, Koblar SA, Cowled PA, Carter CD, Clayer M .Human osteosarcoma expresses specific ephrin profiles: implications for tumorigenicity and prognosis. Cancer 95, 2002, 862-9.

5. Eberhart J, Swartz ME, Koblar SA, Pasquale EB, Krull CE. EphA4 constitutes a population-specific guidance cue for motor neurons. Dev Biol 247, 2002, 89-101.

6. Cai Z, Blumbergs PC, Koblar SA, Cash K, Manavis J, Ghabriel MN, Thompson PD. Peripheral nervous system and central nervous system pathology in rapidly progressive lower motor neuron syndrome with immunoglobulin M anti-GM1 ganglioside antibody. J Peripher Nerv Syst. 9, 2004, 79-91.

7. Jannes J, Hamilton-Bruce MA, Pilotto L, Smith BJ, Mullighan CG, Bardy PG, Koblar SA. Tissue plasminogen activator -7351C/T enhancer polymorphism is a risk factor for lacunar stroke. Stroke. 5, 2004, 1090-4.

8. Flood WD, Moyer RW, Tsykin A, Sutherland GR, Koblar SA. Nxf and Fbxo33: novel seizure-responsive genes in mice. Euro J Neurosci 2004 (in press).

9. Short CL, Scott G, Blumbergs PC, Koblar SA. A Case of Presumptive Primary Lateral Sclerosis With Upper and Lower Motor Neurone Pathology. Clin J Neurosci 2004 (in press).