Professor Michael Parker is Director of the Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne and Head of Structural Biology, St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. He is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow.
After obtaining his D. Phil. in protein crystallography from Oxford University, Michael returned to Australia to re-establish a protein crystallography laboratory at St. Vincent’s in 1991. The work of the laboratory is internationally recognised with the determination of more than 140 crystal structures of proteins involved in cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and infection. He has published over 300 papers and his work has been recognised with numerous awards including the 1999 Gottschalk Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, a 2006 Federation Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, the 2011 Lemberg Medal of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the 2011 Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research and the 2012 Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists Award for Research Excellence. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2010 and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2015. He is currently Chair of the National Committee of Crystallography under the auspices of the Australian Academy of Science.
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The structure of the PA28-20S proteasome complex from Plasmodium falciparum and implications for proteostasis
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A COLLABORATIVE ELECTRON MICROSCOPY PIPELINE FOR STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY (NON-ARC CASH)
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A Key Motif in the Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysins Reveals a Large Family of Related Prot..
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A HIGH-PERFORMANCE CLOUD RESOURCE FOR COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING
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Long-chain fatty acyl-CoA esters regulate metabolism via allosteric control of AMPK beta 1..
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Understanding cell signalling as a basis for new therapeutics
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The structure of the extracellular domains of human interleukin 11? receptor reveals mecha..
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
for outstanding contributions to biophysics in Australia and New Zealand
for Wielens et al. (2013) 18, 147-159.
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Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists Award for Research Excellence
HPC Innovation Excellence Award
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Lemberg Medallist
Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research
GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences Award
Royal Society of New South Wales Walter Burfitt Prize
The Gottschalk Medal of The Australian Academy of Science
Boehringer-Mannheim Medallist
Selwyn-Smith Medical Research Prize
The CSR Chemical Prize
FAA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Professor
Biochemistry And Molecular Biology
Themis Supervisor
Bio21 Institute
Honorary
Baker Department Of Cardiometabolic Health
Member
Royal Society of Victoria
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Protein Society
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Australian Society for Medical Research
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Australian Society for Biophysics
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Society of Crystallographers in Australia
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Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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American Crystallographic Association
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British Crystallographic Association
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Bachelor of Science
The Australian National University