Welcome to Associate Professor Jody Jonathan Haigh, who has just started at the ACBD within the CCS. He is Canadian and recently moved his research group here
from the Department for Molecular Biomedical Research (DMBR) in
Flanders, Belgium which is affiliated with Ghent University and the VIB.
He was a group leader/assistant professor there for nine years. He received
his undergraduate training in Life Sciences as well as MSc. degree in
Biochemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. His PhD in
Biochemistry followed this in the lab of Professor Erwin F. Wagner at
the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP) at the University
of Vienna in Austria as part of their International PhD Student
Program. He then did four years of postdoctoral training in the lab of
Professor Andras Nagy at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
Throughout his career Jody has
been interested in the role of VEGF signalling in organ development and
disease processes. We use and have developed novel mouse ES/iPS cell
transgenic technologies based on the Cre/loxP and rtTA-tet(o) systems to
investigate gene function in the mouse. More recently our work centres
on the role of transcription factors of the Zeb and Snai family in
normal haematopoiesis and haematopoietic malignancies such as T-ALL and
will be the main area of focus initially at the ACBD. See more at http://www.acbd.monash.org/research/mammal-genetics.html.
Jody has moved to
Melbourne with his wife Katharina (also one of his Research
Assistants) and two sons Jonathan (11) and Alexander (2). Recently his lab has been joined by Dr Thao Nguen (Research Assistant) and Dr
Maggie Costa (Senior Research Officer). He says, "I am impressed by the scientific quality
of the research and the friendliness of people here. I have already
attended a top quality lecture, contributed to a scientific lab meeting
discussion and been invited to the pub for Belgium beers. Not too bad
for a first week at work. I am looking forward to getting my lab
operational and contributing to the scientific excellence and friendly
atmosphere at the ACBD." Welcome Jody!
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