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Curriculum Vitae - Professor Nick Martin

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:Nicholas Gordon MARTIN
Born:14/2/50, Adelaide, South Australia
Marital Status:Married, two children
Home Address:37 Burns Road, Toowong, Queensland 4066
Home Phone Number:+61+7+3371 8277
Office Address:Queensland Institute of Medical Research,
300 Herston Road, Q 4029, Australia.
Office Phone Number:+61+7+3362 0278
Fax:+61+7+3362 0101
Email:nickM@qimr.edu.au

Degrees:

1972University of Adelaide: Department of Genetics, B.Sc. First class Honours in Genetics. Thesis: The inheritance of scholastic abilities in a sample of twins
1977University of Birmingham: Department of Genetics, Ph.D. Thesis: The classical twin study in human behaviour genetics

Appointments:

1992 - presentSenior Principal Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Pathology (1993), Zoology (1996) and Psychology (2003), University of Queensland
1988 - 1992Principal Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane.
1986 - 1988Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane.
1983 - 1986Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1978 - 1983Research Fellow, Department of Population Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
1976 - 1978Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, University of Birmingham, England.

Miscellaneous:

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

Learned Societies:

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)

PhD theses supervised:

Rosemary Jardine (ANU, Psychology, 1985)
A twin study of personality, social attitudes and drinking behaviour.

Susan Treloar (UQ, Psychiatry, 1992)
Genetic and environmental influences on gynaecopsychiatric conditions.

David Duffy (UQ, Medicine, 1994)
Asthma and allergic diseases in Australian twins and their families.

Tracey Wade (Flinders, Psychology, 1997)
A twin study of disordered eating and attitudes characteristic of bulimia nervosa

Paula Dempsey (Adelaide, Dentistry, 1998)
Genetic and environmental contributions to morphological variation in the human permanent dentition.

Robert Lake (UQ, Psychology, 1998)
Aspects of the genetic architecture of Neuroticism

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

David Evans (UQ, Zoology, 2003)
The genetics of blood cell concentrations.

Narelle Hansell (UQ, Psychology, 2003)
A genetic investigation of brain function and cognitive ability

Nathan Gillespie (UQ, Psychology, 2003)
The genetic etiology of psychological distress: investigations of the diathesis-stress model.

Sarah Medland (UQ, Psychology)
The genetic epidemiology of behavioural laterality

Manuel Ferreira (UQ, Medicine, 2006)
Genetic risk factors for allergic asthma

Mark Wainwright (UQ, Psychology, 2007)
Genetics and environmental sources of covariation among cognitive abilities.

Pending:

Will Coventry (UNE, Psychology) social support
Belinda Cornes (UQ, Medicine) body mass index
Sri Shekar (UQ, Medicine) melanoma
Jonathan Hansen (UQ, Medicine) taste
Rita Middelberg (UQ, Medicine) lipids
Brendan Zietsch (UQ,Psychology) EEG

Publications

A list of Professor Martin's publications is maintained on a separate page.

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