Professor Olivia Carter and Dr Julia Stone
Lowe Theatre, L1, Redmond Barry Building, Parkville VIC 3052
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Welcome to the MSPS Colloquium with Professor Olivia Carter and Dr Julia Stone.
Dr Julia Stone's abstract
Our bodies are made of clocks, regulated by our central circadian clock located in the Suprachiasmatic Nuclei. Disruption to this internal system leads to poor health and wellbeing. Measurement of circadian timing in sleep and circadian rhythm disorders is critical for accurate diagnosis and treatments, but these assessments are almost never conducted clinically due to lack of practical methods. This talk will discuss the challenges of bringing circadian medicine "into the wild", and the novel approaches we are developing using wearables and computational modelling to track circadian timing.
About Dr Julia Stone
Dr Julia Stone is a Senior Research Fellow who joined MSPS in 2024 on an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellowship. She is a chronobiologist with training in sleep and circadian rhythms research. Her research program seeks to understand and model circadian disruption and its impact on health and wellbeing. In particular she works to improve methods for tracking circadian timing in populations with circadian-based sleep disorders, in developmental contexts such as adolescence, and in applied shift work contexts.
Professor Olivia Carter's abstract
This talk will introduce the Melbourne Px4 (Px4) Health Initiative and the ambition of establishing a world-leading integrated medical research capability to advance personalised medicine and well-being at scale. Imbedded within the Parkville precinct, Px4 will provide researchers with a unique opportunity to understand the complex interplay of factors - from environment and lifestyle factors down to our molecular biology - that impact mental and physical well-being.
About Professor Olivia Carter
Prof Olivia Carter joined MSPS in 2009 after completing a PhD in Neuroscience at the UQ, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She previously held NHMRC and ARC fellowships conducting research investigating the neurobiological and psychological factors that influence conscious experience in healthy and clinical populations. In addition to fundamental research she has a passion for research translation through industry and community engagement and now supports research translation as the research impact lead for the faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences