Professor

Peter Currie

FAA

Peter Currie
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Peter Currie is a world-renowned developmental evolutionary and stem cell biologist who studies the genetic basis of skeletal muscle stem cell action during development, evolution, regeneration and disease. His key discoveries utilise several models, chiefly the zebrafish, to define the genetic and evolutionary basis for muscle formation and growth throughout vertebrate phylogeny. Currie has played a key role globally in developing zebrafish as a disease model for human muscle disease and regeneration biology. He has also been instrumental in establishing shark embryology as a modern evolutionary paradigm to understand the evolutionary origins of the vertebrate body plan.

Fields of research

10 TECHNOLOGY 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3104 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
    • 310404 Evolution of Developmental Systems
  • 3105 GENETICS
    • 310503 Developmental Genetics (incl. Sex Determination)
  • 3109 ZOOLOGY
    • 310914 Vertebrate Biology
3206 MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
  • 320606 Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering)

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics
  • Muscle Function
  • Biology
  • Stem Cells
  • Developmental Biology
  • Embryology

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