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| Name: | Nicholas Gordon MARTIN |
| Born: | 14/2/50, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Marital Status: | Married, two children |
| Address: | Queensland Institute of Medical Research,
300 Herston Road, Q 4029, Australia. |
| Phone Number: | +61+7+3362 0278 |
| Fax: | +61+7+3362 0101 |
| Email: | Nick.Martin@qimr.edu.au |
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Degrees:
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| 1972 | University of Adelaide: Department of Genetics, B.Sc. First class Honours in Genetics.
Thesis: The inheritance of scholastic abilities in a sample of twins |
| 1977 | University of Birmingham: Department of Genetics, Ph.D.
Thesis: The classical twin study in human behaviour genetics |
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Appointments:
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| 1992 - present | Senior Principal Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Pathology (1993), Zoology (1996) and Psychology (2003), University of Queensland |
| 1988 - 1992 | Principal Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane. |
| 1986 - 1988 | Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane. |
| 1983 - 1986 | Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, USA. |
| 1978 - 1983 | Research Fellow, Department of Population Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra. |
| 1976 - 1978 | Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, University of Birmingham, England. |
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Miscellaneous:
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| Established Australian Twin Registry (with J.D. Mathews - 1978) |
| President, Behavior Genetics Association (1996-98) |
| Executive Committee, Behavior Genetics Association (1987-90) |
| Executive Committee, International Society of Twin Studies (1986-2001) |
| Associate Editor of Behavior Genetics (1986-92) |
| Editor in Chief of Twin Research and Human Genetics (2000-present) |
| Editorial Board of American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics) (1993-present) |
| Editorial Board of Journal of Studies on Alcohol (1998-2002) |
| Editorial Board of Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (2005 - present) |
| International Society of Twin Studies, James Shields Award for outstanding contributions to Twin Research (1986) |
| Advisory Board, Australian NHMRC Twin Registry |
| Fulker award for best paper in Behavior Genetics in 1999 (with M. Neale and others) |
| Fulker award for best paper in Behavior Genetics in 2003 (with N. Gillespie and others) |
| Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, September 2003 |
| QIMR Ralph Doherty Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Medical Research, November 2004 |
| Behavior Genetics Association, Dobzhansky Award for Outstanding Contributions to Behavior Genetics, July 2005 |
| Associate editor of the American Journal of Human Genetics (2008-10), one of only three foreigners so honored |
| Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, March 2008 |
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Learned Societies:
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| Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (Fellow) |
| Australian Academy of Brain Sciences (Member) |
| International Society of Twin Studies (Fellow) |
| American Society of Human Genetics |
| Behavior Genetics Association(President, 1996-8) |
| Human Genetics Society of Australasia |
| European Society of Human Genetics |
| International Society of Genetic Epidemiology |
| Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) |
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PhD theses supervised:
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| Rosemary Jardine (ANU, Psychology, 1985) |
| A twin study of personality, social attitudes and drinking behaviour. |
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| Susan Treloar (UQ, Psychiatry, 1992) |
| Genetic and environmental influences on gynaecopsychiatric conditions. |
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| David Duffy (UQ, Medicine, 1994) |
| Asthma and allergic diseases in Australian twins and their families. |
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| Tracey Wade (Flinders, Psychology, 1997) |
| A twin study of disordered eating and attitudes characteristic of bulimia nervosa |
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| Paula Dempsey (Adelaide, Dentistry, 1998) |
| Genetic and environmental contributions to morphological variation in the human permanent dentition. |
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| Robert Lake (UQ, Psychology, 1998) |
| Aspects of the genetic architecture of Neuroticism |
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| Michelle Luciano (UQ, Psychiatry, 1998-2001) |
| An information processing approach to the genetic study of psychometric intelligence: links between processing speed, working memory and IQ |
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| David Evans (UQ, Zoology, 2003) |
| The genetics of blood cell concentrations. |
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| Narelle Hansell (UQ, Psychology, 2003) |
| A genetic investigation of brain function and cognitive ability |
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| Nathan Gillespie (UQ, Psychology, 2003) |
| The genetic etiology of psychological distress: investigations of the diathesis-stress model. |
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| Sarah Medland (UQ, Psychology, 2005) |
| The genetic epidemiology of behavioural laterality |
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| Manuel Ferreira (UQ, Medicine, 2006) |
| Genetic risk factors for allergic asthma |
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| Mark Wainwright (UQ, Psychology, 2007) |
| Genetics and environmental sources of covariation among cognitive abilities |
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| Belinda Cornes (UQ, Medicine, 2007) |
| Aetiology of Obesity in Australian Families |
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| Sri Shekar (UQ, Medicine, 2008) |
| Genetics of Melanoma Susceptibility and Development |
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| Will Coventry (UNE, Psychology 2008) |
| Perceived social support: its genetic and environmental etiology and association with depression |
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| Rita Middelberg (UQ, Medicine 2009) |
| Genetics of lipid cadiovascular risk factors in Australian families |
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| Brendan Zietsch (UQ, Psychology, 2009) |
| Twin studies investigating the etiology of human sexuality and personality |
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| Gu Zhu (UQ, Medicine, 2010) |
| The Quantitative Genetics of Nevus Count and Other Pigmentary Characteristics of the Skin |
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Pending:
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| Nico Martin (UQ, Psychology) cognition |
| Miriam Mosing (UQ, Psychology) ageing |
| Miguell Renteria (UQ, Psychology) |
| Karin Verweij (UQ, Psychology) addiction |
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