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Biography
Professor 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. Prof 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.
In 2016, Professor Peter Currie was appointed Director of Research of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a recipient of a European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigators Award and a Wellcome Trust International Research Fellowship and currently is a Principal Research Fellow with the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Research interests
- Dissecting molecular mechanisms that act to pattern the vertebrate embryo.
- Discovering how specific muscle cell types are determined within the developing embryo.
- Discovering how different muscle cell types have evolved.
- Determining how muscle cell types grow and regenerate after injury.
- Large-sale mutagenesis of the zebrafish genome to produce different classes of mutations which disrupt gene function.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- muscle development and disease
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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The developmental and evolutionary origins of vertebrate fins and limbs.
Currie, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Tulenko, F. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Trinajstic, K. M. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Burgess, S. (Partner Investigator (PI))
31/05/24 → 30/05/27
Project: Research
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How do stem cells get specified during embryonic muscle development?
Currie, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Montandon, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Kaslin, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Australian Research Council (ARC)
29/01/24 → 28/01/27
Project: Research
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Developing macrophage-based technologies for tissue regeneration
Currie, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Martino, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Hicks, R. (Partner Investigator (PI))
3/03/23 → 2/03/26
Project: Research
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Genetic basis for skeletal muscle formation and regeneration in development and disease
1/01/23 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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Therapeutic significance of FKRP’s regulation of glycosylation within the Golgi
Currie, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Packer, N. H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gibertini, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Straub, V. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Moore, S. A. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/09/22 → 1/09/25
Project: Research
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Asymmetric division of clonal muscle stem cells coordinates muscle regeneration in vivo
Gurevich, D. B., Nguyen, P. D. N., Siegel, A. L., Ehrlich, O. V., Sonntag, C., Phan, J. M. N., Berger, S., Ratnayake, D., lkkno1, L. K., Berger, J., Verkade, H., Hall, T. E. & Currie, P. D., 8 Jul 2016, In: Science. 353, 6295, 12 p., aad9969.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
115 Citations (Scopus) -
A somitic contribution to the apical ectodermal ridge is essential for fin formation
Masselink, W., Cole, N. J., Fenyes, F., Berger, S., Sonntag, C., Wood, A., Nguyen, P. D., Cohen, N., Knopf, F., Weidinger, G., Hall, T. E. & Currie, P. D., 28 Jul 2016, In: Nature. 535, 7613, p. 542-546 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
18 Citations (Scopus) -
Muscle Stem Cells Undergo Extensive Clonal Drift during Tissue Growth via Meox1-Mediated Induction of G2 Cell-Cycle Arrest
Nguyen, P. D., Gurevich, D. B., Sonntag, C., Hersey, L., Alaei , S., Nim, H. T., Siegel, A., Hall, T. E., Rossello, F. J., Boyd, S. E., Polo, J. M. & Currie, P. D., 6 Jul 2017, In: Cell Stem Cell. 21, 1, p. 107-119.e6 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile61 Citations (Scopus) -
In Vivo Function of the Chaperonin TRiC in α-Actin Folding during Sarcomere Assembly
Berger, J., Berger, S., Li, M., Jacoby, A. S., Arner, A., Bavi, N., Stewart, A. G. & Currie, P. D., 9 Jan 2018, In: Cell Reports. 22, 2, p. 313-322 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile26 Citations (Scopus) -
Cellular rescue in a zebrafish model of congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A
Hall, T., Wood, A., Ehrlich, O. V., Li, M., Sonntag, C., Cole, N. J., Huttner, I. G., Sztal, T. & Currie, P., 1 Dec 2019, In: npj Regenerative Medicine. 4, 1, 13 p., 21.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile17 Citations (Scopus)