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Personal profile
Biography
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Professor Roger Pocock is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute. Roger leads the Brain Development, Neuroplasticity and Stem Cells Laboratory in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology.
Roger grew up on the south coast of England where he entered the banking sector as a teenager. During his mid-twenties, Roger decided to completely change his career path and studied Genetics and Biochemistry at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth and at Washington State University in the USA.
Roger trained as a doctoral student at the University of Oxford from 2000-2004, where he was first introduced to his favourite model organism - the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. During this period, Roger worked on the transcriptional control of embryonic development before moving into the neuroscience field.
Upon completion of his doctorate, Roger commenced his postdoctoral work at Columbia University Medical Centre in New York City. Here, he again used C. elegans but now to study how the nervous system senses and responds to environmental stress. This work produced ground-breaking studies in the field of hypoxia (low oxygen), insights into which are now being used to design drugs to prevent brain defects in premature newborn babies.
In 2010, Roger started his own research group at the University of Copenhagen. The focus of his research during the early phase of his laboratory was to delineate functions of microRNAs in neuronal development and function, in addition to the control of neuronal fate programming by transcription factors. The Pocock laboratory has already yielded important insights into the genetic control of such decisions. Roger's laboratory continues to decipher mechanisms that control brain development, function and determinants of brain-intestinal communication.
In January 2015, Roger received a Biomedicine Discovery Fellowship and a veski Innovation Fellowship to relocate his laboratory from Denmark to the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University. In 2017, Roger was awarded a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship for his work on brain-intestinal communication.
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):
External positions
Victoria State Representative, Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology (ANZSCDB)
2017 → 2019
Research area keywords
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Neurobiology
- Stem Cells
- Transcription factors
- microRNAs
- Cell fate
- Axon guidance
- Cell migration
- Fertility
Network
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Characterization of the Germline Regulatory Landscape
Pocock, R., Cao, W., Fan, Q., Hutt, K., Gopal, S., Schittenhelm, R., Hobbs, R., Archer, S. & Coutts, S.
1/01/23 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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Investigating a novel factor impacting stem cell development
Pocock, R. & Gopal, S.
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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in vivo removal of alpha-synuclein aggregates in a Parkinson's disease model
Pocock, R. & Ejlerskov, P.
1/02/21 → 31/01/22
Project: Research
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Automatic quantitative locomotion and behaviour phenotyping setup for small animals
Kaslin, J., Currie, P., Ruparelia, A., Pocock, R., Ramialison, M., Martino, M., Lieschke, G., Nillegoda, N. & Anko, M.
1/01/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Transcriptional control of germ cell development
Pocock, R. & Gopal, S.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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The ETS-5 transcription factor regulates activity states in Caenorhabditis elegans by controlling satiety
Juozaityte, V., Pladevall-Morera, D., Podolska, A., Norgaard, S., Neumann, B. & Pocock, R., 28 Feb 2017, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114, 9, p. E1651-E1658 8 p., 1610673114.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
22 Citations (Scopus) -
An epidermal microRNA regulates neuronal migration through control of the cellular glycosylation state
Pedersen, M. E., Snieckute, G., Kagias, K., Nehammer, C., Multhaupt, H. A. B., Couchman, J. R. & Pocock, R. D. J., 2013, In: Science. 341, 6152, p. 1404 - 1408 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
64 Citations (Scopus) -
Hypoxia activates a latent circuit for processing gustatory information in C. elegans
Pocock, R. D. J. & Hobert, O., 2010, In: Nature Neuroscience. 13, 5, p. 610 - 614 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
83 Citations (Scopus) -
Characterization of the Doublesex/MAB-3 transcription factor DMD-9 in Caenorhabditis elegans
Godini, R. & Pocock, R., 9 Feb 2023, In: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 13, 2, 12 p., jkac305.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Atypical TGF-β signaling controls neuronal guidance in Caenorhabditis elegans
Baltaci, O., Pedersen, M. E., Sherry, T., Handley, A., Snieckute, G., Cao, W., Haas, M., Archer, S. & Pocock, R., 18 Feb 2022, In: iScience. 25, 2, 17 p., 103791.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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Genetics Society of America (Publisher)
Roger Pocock (Associate editor)
2021 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roger Pocock (Visiting researcher)
2019 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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University of Melbourne
Roger Pocock (Visiting researcher)
2019 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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BDI ECR Mentoring Program
Roger Pocock (Mentor)
2019 → …Activity: Other Teaching Engagements and non-HDR Supervisions › Mentor/ Internship supervision
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veski Grant Reviewer
Roger Pocock (Reviewer)
2019 → …Activity: External Academic Engagement › Peer review panel or committee