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Dr

Louise Cheng

Arc Future Fellow
The Sir Peter Maccallum Department Of Oncology
Metabolism
nutrition
tumour growth
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
animals
cell biology
gene expression regulation, developmental
transcription factors
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Dr

Louise Cheng

 
Division
Medicine, Dentistry And Health Sciences
 
Primary Interest
Understanding the relationship between nutrition and cancer
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Dr

Louise Cheng

 

Dr Louise Cheng did her undergraduate studies at UNSW, before moving to the UK to undertake her PhD at Kings College London. She then undertook postdoctoral training at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, where she studied the mechanisms that underlie how organ size control is regulated, particular in the neural stem cell lineages.

Her work was published in 2 primary publications in the journal Cell in 2008 and 2011.

Projects

Displaying the 9 most recent projects by Louise Cheng.

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Identification Of Mediators Of Cachexia And Inter-Organ Cross-Talk In Drosophila

2020 - 2023
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How Do Neurons Maintain Their Fate?

This project aims to investigate how neurons maintain their identity, without reverting back to less specialised cells. Stable fate maintena..

2019 - 2021
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Awaking Quiescent Neural Stem Cells

This project aims to generate new knowledge in the area of the evolutionary size of animals and plants, which is determined by intrinsic cel..

2019 - 2022
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Awaking Quiescent Neural Stem Cells

This project aims to generate new knowledge in the area of the evolutionary size of animals and plants, which is determined by intrinsic cel..

2019 - 2022
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Awaking Quiescent Neural Stem Cells

This project aims to generate new knowledge in the area of the evolutionary size of animals and plants, which is determined by intrinsic cel..

2019 - 2022
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Awaking Quiescent Neural Stem Cells

This project aims to generate new knowledge in the area of the evolutionary size of animals and plants, which is determined by intrinsic cel..

2019 - 2022
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Metabolic Reprogramming Of Dedifferentiation

Stem cell to differentiation occurs in a bi-directional fashion. Dedifferentiation which allows specialized cells to become stem cells has b..

2018 - 2020
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The Hippo Pathway, Neural Stem Cells And Brain Growth

During organism development, the brain grows to the right size without overgrowing. Neural stem cells are key regulators of brain size. We w..

2016 - 2018
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How Does The Tumour Suppressor: Nerfin-1 Prevent Dietary Dependent Tumour Growth?

The influence of diet has been linked to tumour growth for decades, however, there is little scientific evidence to support or disprove this..

2013 - 2015
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Projects

Project Types

7

Research Grant

2

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 21 most recent scholarly works by Louise Cheng.

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Histidine is selectively required for the growth of Myc-dependent dedifferentiation tumours in the Drosophila CNS

Francesca Froldi, Panayotis Pachnis, Milan Szuperak, Olivia Costas, Tharindu Fernando, Alex P Gould, Louise Y Cheng

Journal article  |  2019  |  The EMBO Journal

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The Scalloped and Nerfin-1 Transcription Factors Cooperate to Maintain Neuronal Cell Fate

Joseph HA Vissers, Francesca Froldi, Jan Schroder, Anthony T Papenfuss, Louise Y Cheng, Kieran F Harvey

Journal article  |  2018  |  CELL REPORTS

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Drosophila Models of Human Disease

Louise Cheng, Antonio Baonza, Daniela Grifoni

Journal article  |  2018  |  BioMed Research International

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Engrailed controls epaxial-hypaxial muscle innervation and the establishment of vertebrate three-dimensional mobility

Mohi U Ahmed, Ashish K Maurya, Louise Cheng, Erika C Jorge, Frank R Schubert, Pascal Maire, M Albert Basson, Philip W Ingham, Susanne Dietrich

Journal article  |  2017  |  Developmental Biology

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Minibrain and Wings apart control organ growth and tissue patterning through down-regulation of Capicua

Liu Yang, Sayantanee Paul, Kenneth G Trieu, Lucas G Dent, Francesca Froldi, Marta Fores, Kaitlyn Webster, Kellee R Siegfried, Shu Kondo, Kieran Harvey, Louise Cheng, Gerardo Jimenez, Stanislav Y Shvartsman, Alexey Veraksa

Journal article  |  2016  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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The Hippo Pathway Regulates Neuroblasts and Brain Size in Drosophila melanogaster

Carole LC Poon, Katrina A Mitchell, Shu Kondo, Louise Y Cheng, Kieran F Harvey

Journal article  |  2016  |  Current Biology

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Understanding how differentiation is maintained: lessons from the Drosophila brain

Francesca Froldi, Louise Y Cheng

Journal article  |  2016  |  Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

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The transcription factor Nerfin-1 prevents reversion of neurons into neural stem cells

Francesca Froldi, Milan Szuperak, Chen-Fang Weng, Wei Shi, Anthony T Papenfuss, Louise Y Cheng

Journal article  |  2015  |  Genes & Development

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Neural stem cell derived tumourigenesis

Francesca Froldi, Milan Szuperak, Louise Y Cheng

Journal article  |  2015  |  AIMS Genetics

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Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Spares Organ Growth during Nutrient Restriction in Drosophila

Louise Y Cheng, Andrew P Bailey, Sally J Leevers, Timothy J Ragan, Paul C Driscoll, Alex P Gould

Journal article  |  2011  |  Cell

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Regulating neural proliferation in the Drosophila CNS

Rita Sousa-Nunes, Louise Y Cheng, Alex P Gould

Journal article  |  2010  |  Current Opinion in Neurobiology

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A mechanism for "brain sparing" during dietary restriction in Drosophila

Louise Cheng, Andrew Bailey, Alex P Gould

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  Mechanisms of Development

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Temporal transcription factors and their targets schedule the end of neural proliferation in Drosophila

Cedric Maurange, Louise Cheng, Alex P Gould

Journal article  |  2008  |  Cell

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Establishment of the epaxial-hypaxial boundary in the avian myotome

Mohi U Ahmed, Louise Cheng, Susanne Dietrich

Journal article  |  2006  |  Developmental Dynamics

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A novel serine/threonine kinase and chromatin regulatory proteins are required to terminate neural stem cell-like precursor divisions in Drosophila

L Cheng, C Maurange, J Pendred, undefined Gould

Conference Proceedings  |  2005  |  MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

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The epaxial-hypaxial subdivision of the avian somite

L Cheng, LE Alvares, MU Ahmed, AS El-Hanfy, S Dietrich

Journal article  |  2004  |  Developmental Biology

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Intrinsic, Hox-dependent cues determine the fate of skeletal muscle precursors

LE Alvares, FR Schubert, C Thorpe, RC Mootoosamy, L Cheng, G Parkyn, A Lumsden, S Dietrich

Journal article  |  2003  |  Developmental Cell

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Hypaxial muscle development.

Gary Parkyn, Roy C Mootoosamy, Louise Cheng, Colin Thorpe, Susanne Dietrich

Journal article  |  2002  |  Results and problems in cell differentiation

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Exogenous FGF-4 can suppress anterior development in the mouse embryo during neurulation and early organogenesis

BP Davidson, L Cheng, SJ Kinder, PPL Tam

Journal article  |  2000  |  Developmental Biology

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Recombinant insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) production in Super-CHO results in the expression of IGF-I receptor and IGF binding protein 3

NA Sunstrom, M Baig, L Cheng, DP Sugyiono, P Gray

Journal article  |  1998  |  Cytotechnology

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Modelling Cancer inDrosophila: The Next Generation

Louise Y Cheng, Linda M Parsons, Helena E Richardson

Journal article  |  eLS

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Zoology
Expanding Knowledge
Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Clinical Sciences

Credentials

Positions

Arc Future Fellow

The Sir Peter Maccallum Department Of Oncology

Arc Future Fellow

Anatomy And Neuroscience

Education

Developmental Biology

King's College London

Doctor of Philosophy

University of New South Wales

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