Jennifer Rodger

BSc Bath, PhD ParisVI, Associate Professor

Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences

Former affiliation

Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3413-4229

Phone+61 8 6488 2245
Emailjennifer.rodger@uwa.edu.au

The University of Western Australia (M317), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia

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Funding overview

Current funding

ITTC IC170100016. Stewart, Pfleger, Voelcker, Pébay, Dottori, Lee, Elnathan, O'Connor, Rodger, Palaniswami, Doyle, Kennedy, Kameneva, Heng, Sercombe, Pouton, Zheng, Mangum, Volery, ARC Training Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies, ITTC 2016. 2017:667,885; 865,613; 987,649; 567,469; 327,737 total: 3,416,353
2018-2020 DP180101494 (Kaylene Young, Jennifer Rodger, Gaetan Burgio) How do myelinating cells alter brain circuits to facilitate learning?.2018: 177,000; 2019: 153,900; 2020: 156,560. Total: 487,460
2018-2020 NHMRC APP1139041 (Kaylene Young, Jennifer Rodger) Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation to Promote Myelin Repair in the Central Nervous System. 2018: 204,759.43; 2019: 240,054.63; 2020: 220,054.63. Total: 664,868.69
2018 Raine Visiting Professor: Dr Paul Croarkin (funded in 2019)
2018 NRP-ICWA-Perron Institute Project Grant. Assessing the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) during training on functional recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI). Rodger, Hodgetts, Harvey. $96,243
Perron early- and mid-career researcher internal grants scheme. Translation of preclinical rTMS parameters to treat depression (Rodger, Price) 30,000
2018-2022 MSWA/Perron Institute for Translational and Neurological Science (Rodger) Research Fellowship and support package $1.2M
2019 Imaging techniques to understand plasticity mechanisms in the injured brain (Rodger, Harvey) $96,100

Current projects

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Languages

English
French

Biography

Qualifications

1993 BSc. Hons. in Biochemistry: University of Bath, UK.
1996 PhD in Molecular Neuroscience (Mention: Tres honourable avec les felicitations du jury): University of Paris VI. Supervisor: Prof Jacques Mallet.
“Expression of syntaxin genes in the brain: key molecules in long-term potentiation (LTP) and learning”

Teaching

Course co-coordinator (With Dr Helmy Mulders): Neuroscience Major, Neuroscience Honours, Masters in Biomedical Sciecne and Master in Health Science (Neuroscience Specialisation)

Unit coordinator: ANIM3320 Comparative Neurobiology, ANIM5501 Evolution and Development, NEUR5011 Developmental origins of neurological disorders, NEUR1001 Neuroscience in Society

Lecturer: NEUR325 Advanced Neuroscience

Industrial relevance

optimisnig repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation techniques for clinical translation

Research interests

• Mechanisms of topographic organisation in the brain: molecular, physiological, and theoretical approaches
• Structure-function relationships in the brain
• Brain plasticity in development and repair

External positions

MSWA Senior Research Fellow

1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2022

Research expertise keywords

Neurobiology and molecular biology
Regenerative neuroscience

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