Prof Peter Currie - Researcher Profile

Biography

Peter works in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as a Professor.

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: Syracuse University

Year awarded: 1993

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE WITH HONOURS

Institution: The University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1988

Publications

Books

Bryson-Richardson, R., Berger, S., Currie, P., 2012, Atlas of Zebrafish Development, Academic Press, UK.

Book Chapters

Brennan, C., Amacher, S.L., Currie, P.D., 2002, Aspects of Organogenesis: Somitogenesis, in Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, eds L Solnica-Krezel, Springer New York LLC, USA, pp. 271-297.

Currie, P.D., Ingham, P.W., 2001, Induction and Patterning of Embryonic Skeletal Muscle Cells in Zebrafish, in Muscle Development and Growth (Fish Physiology), eds IA Johnston, Academic Press, UK, pp. 1-17.

Journal Articles

Sztal, T.E., Chung, H., Berger, S., Currie, P.D., Batterham, P., Daborn, P.J., 2012, A cytochrome P450 conserved in insects is involved in cuticle formation, PLoS ONE [P], vol 7, issue 5 (Art. No: e36544), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-9.

Jusuf, P.R., Albadri, S., Paolini, A., Currie, P.D., Argenton, F., Higashijima, S., Harris, W.A., Poggi, L., 2012, Biasing amacrine subtypes in the Atoh7 lineage through expression of barhl2, Journal Of Neuroscience [P], vol 32, issue 40, Society for Neurosciences, USA, pp. 13929-13944.

Goldshmit, Y., Matteo, R., Sztal, T.E., Ellett, F., Frisca, F., Moreno, K., Crombie, D., Lieschke, G.J., Currie, P.D., Sabbadini, R.A., Pebay, A., 2012, Blockage of lysophosphatidic acid signaling improves spinal cord injury outcomes, American Journal Of Pathology [P], vol 181, issue 3, Elsevier Inc., USA, pp. 978-992.

Ruparelia, A., Zhao, M., Currie, P.D., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., 2012, Characterization and investigation of zebrafish models of filamin-related myofibrillar myopathy, Human Molecular Genetics [P], vol 21, issue 18, Oxford University Press, Oxford England, pp. 4073-4083.

Sztal, T.E., Sonntag, C., Hall, T.E., Currie, P.D., 2012, Epistatic dissection of laminin - receptor interactions in dystrophic zebrafish muscle, Human Molecular Genetics [P], vol 21, issue 21, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 4718-4731.

Frugier, T.J., Conquest, A., McLean, C., Currie, P.D., Moses, D., Goldshmit, Y., 2012, Expression and activation of EphA4 in the human brain after traumatic injury , Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology [P], vol 71, issue 3, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, USA, pp. 242-250.

Goldshmit, Y., Sztal, T.E., Jusuf, P.R., Hall, T.E., Nguyen Chi, M.E., Currie, P.D., 2012, Fgf-dependent glial cell bridges facilitate spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish, Journal Of Neuroscience [P], vol 32, issue 22, Society for Neuroscience, USA, pp. 7477-7492.

Nguyen Chi, M.E., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Sonntag, C., Hall, T.E., Gibson, A.J., Sztal, T.E., Chua, W.C., Schilling, T.F., Currie, P.D., 2012, Morphogenesis and cell fate determination within the adaxial cell equivalence group of the zebrafish myotome, Plos Genetics [P], vol 8, issue 10 (Art. No: e1003014), Public Library of Science, United States, pp. 1-16.

Berger, J., Sztal, T.E., Currie, P.D., 2012, Quantification of birefringence readily measures the level of muscle damage in zebrafish, Biochemical And Biophysical Research Communications [P], vol 423, issue 4, Academic Press, USA, pp. 785-788.

Johnson, J.F., Hall, T.E., Dyson, J.M., Sonntag, C., Ayers, K.L., Berger, S., Gautier, P., Mitchell, C.A., Hollway, G.E., Currie, P.D., 2012, Scube activity is necessary for Hedgehog signal transduction in vivo, Developmental Biology [P], vol 368, issue 2, Academic Press, USA, pp. 193-202.

Salgado, D., Marcelle, C., Currie, P.D., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., 2012, The Zebrafish Anatomy Portal: A novel integrated resource to facilitate zebrafish research, Developmental Biology [E], vol 372, issue 1, Academic Press, United States, pp. 1-4.

Berger, J., Currie, P.D., 2012, Zebrafish models flex their muscles to shed light on muscular dystrophies, Disease Models and Mechanisms [P], vol 5, issue 6, he Company of Biologists Ltd, UK, pp. 726-732.

Sztal, T., Berger, S., Currie, P., Hall, T., 2011, Characterization of the laminin gene family and evolution in zebrafish, Developmental Dynamics [P], vol 240, issue 2, John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA, pp. 422-431.

Cole, N.J., Hall, T.E., Don, E.K., Berger, S., Boisvert, C.A., Neyt, C., Ericsson, R., Joss, J., Gurevich, D.B., Currie, P.D., 2011, Development and evolution of the muscles of the pelvic fin, Plos Biology [P], vol 9, issue 10 (Art. No: e1001168), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-10.

Berger, J., Berger, S., Jacoby, A., Wilton, S., Currie, P., 2011, Evaluation of exon-skipping strategies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy utilizing dystrophin-deficient zebrafish, Journal Of Cellular And Molecular Medicine [P], vol 15, issue 12, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 2643-2651.

Don, E., Hall, T., Currie, P., Cole, N., 2011, Morphology of pelvic fin loss in a zebrafish strain (Danio rerio), Journal of Morphology [P], vol 272, issue 5, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA, pp. 583-589.

Williams, R.J., Hall, T.E., Glattauer, V., White, J.F., Pasic, P.J., Sorensen, A.B., Waddington, L., McLean, K.M., Currie, P.D., Hartley, P.G., 2011, The in vivo performance of an enzyme-assisted self-assembled peptide/protein hydrogel, Biomaterials [P], vol 32, issue 22, Elsevier BV, The Netherlands, pp. 5304-5310.

Tao, S., Witte, M., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Currie, P.D., Hogan, B.M., Schulte-Merker, S., 2011, Zebrafish prox1b mutants develop a lymphatic vasculature, and prox1b does not specifically mark lymphatic endothelial cells, PLoS ONE [P], vol 6, issue 12 (Art. No: e28934), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-9.

Berger, J., Berger, S., Hall, T.E., Lieschke, G.J., Currie, P.D., 2010, Dystrophin-deficient zebrafish feature aspects of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy pathology, Neuromuscular Disorders [P], vol 20, issue 12, Elsevier Ltd, UK, pp. 826-832.

Jacoby, A.S., Busch-Nentwich, E., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Hall, T.E., Berger, J., Berger, S., Sonntag, C., Sachs, C., Geisler, R., Stemple, D., Currie, P.D., 2009, The zebrafish dystrophic mutant softy maintains muscle fibre viability despite basement membrane rupture and muscledetachment, Development [P], vol 136, issue 19, The Company of Biologists Ltd, UK, pp. 3367-3376.

Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Currie, P.D., 2008, The genetics of vertebrate myogenesis, Nature Reviews Genetics [P], vol 9, issue 8, Nature Publishing Group, UK, pp. 632-646.

Lieschke, G.J., Currie, P.D., 2007, Animal models of human disease: zebrafish swim into view, Nature Reviews Genetics [P], vol 8, issue 5, Nature Publishing Group, UK, pp. 353-367.

Daggett, D.F., Domingo, C.R., Currie, P.D., Amacher, S.L., 2007, Control of morphogenetic cell movements in the early zebrafish myotome, Developmental Biology [P], vol 309, issue 2, Academic Press, USA, pp. 169-179.

Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Berger, S., Schilling, T.F., Hall, T.E., Cole, N.J., Gibson, A.J., Sharpe, J., Currie, P.D., 2007, FishNet: an online database of zebrafish anatomy, BMC Biology [P], vol 5, issue 1, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 34-41.

Cole, N.J., Currie, P.D., 2007, Insights from sharks: Evolutionary and developmental models of fin development, Developmental Dynamics [P], vol 236, issue 9, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA, pp. 2421-2431.

Svetic, V., Hollway, G.E., Elworthy, S., Chipperfield, T.R., Davison, C., Adams, R.J., Eisen, J.S., Ingham, P.W., Currie, P.D., Kelsh, R.N., 2007, Sdf1a patterns zebrafish melanophores and links the somite and melanophore pattern defects in choker mutants, Development [P], vol 134, issue 5, The Company of Biologists Ltd, UK, pp. 1011-1022.

Nousch, M., Reed, V., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Currie, P.D., Preiss, T., 2007, The eIF4G-homolog p97 can activate translation independent of caspase cleavage, Rna-A Publication Of The Rna Society [P], vol 13, issue 3, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, USA & UK, pp. 374-384.

Berger, J., Currie, P., 2007, The role of zebrafish in chemical genetics, Current Medicinal Chemistry [P], vol 14, issue 22, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., Netherlands, pp. 2413-2420.

Hall, T.E., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Berger, S., Jacoby, A.S., Cole, N.J., Hollway, G.E., Berger, J., Currie, P.D., 2007, The zebrafish candyfloss mutant implicates extracellular matrix adhesion failure in laminin alpha2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America [P], vol 104, issue 17, National Academy of Sciences, USA, pp. 7092-7097.

Hollway, G.E., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Berger, S., Cole, N.J., Hall, T.E., Currie, P.D., 2007, Whole-somite rotation generates muscle progenitor cell compartments in the developing zebrafish embryo, Developmental Cell [P], vol 12, issue 2, Cell Press, USA, pp. 207-219.

Hollway, G.E., Maule, J., Gautier, P., Evans, T.M., Keenan, D.G., Lohs, C., Fischer, D., Wicking, C., Currie, P.D., 2006, Scube2 mediates Hedgehog signalling in the zebrafish embryo, Developmental Biology [P], vol 294, issue 1, Academic Press, USA, pp. 104-118.

Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Daggett, D., Cortes, F., Neyt, C., Keenan, D.G., Currie, P.D., 2005, Myosin heavy chain expression in zebrafish and slow muscle composition, Developmental Dynamics [P], vol 233, issue 3, John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA, pp. 1018-1022.

Hollway, G.E., Currie, P.D., 2005, Vertebrate myotome development, Birth Defects Research. Part C: Embryo Today Revie..., vol 75, issue 3, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA, pp. 172-179.

Nixon, S.J., Wegner, J., Ferguson, C., Mery, P., Hancock, J.F., Currie, P.D., Key, B., Westerfield, M., Parton, R.G., 2005, Zebrafish as a model for caveolin-associated muscle disease; caveolin-3 is required for myofibril organization and muscle cell patterning, Human Molecular Genetics [P], vol 14, issue 13, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 1727-1743.

Daggett, D., Boyd, C.A., Gautier, P., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Thisse, C., Thisse, B., Amacher, S.L., Currie, P.D., 2004, Developmentally restricted actin-regulatory molecules control morphogenetic cell movements in the zebrafish gastrula, Current Biology [P], vol 14, issue 18, Cell Press, USA, pp. 1632-1638.

Bassett, D.I., Currie, P.D., 2004, Identification of a zebrafish model of muscular dystrophy, Clinical And Experimental Pharmacology And Physio..., vol 31, issue 8, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 537-540.

Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Logan, D.W., Currie, P.D., Jackson, I.J., 2004, Large-scale analysis of gene structure in rhodopsin-like GPCRs: evidence for widespread loss of an ancient intron, Gene [P], vol 338, issue 1, Elsevier BV, The Netherlands, pp. 15-23.

Haines, L., Neyt, C., Gautier, P., Keenan, D.G., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Hollway, G.E., Cole, N.J., Currie, P.D., 2004, Met and Hgf signaling controls hypaxial muscle and lateral line development in the zebrafish, Development [P], vol 131, issue 19, The Company of Biologists, UK, pp. 4857-4869.

Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Currie, P.D., 2004, Optical projection tomography for spatio-temporal analysis in the zebrafish, Methods In Cell Biology [P], vol 76, Academic Press, USA, pp. 37-50.

Cortes, F., Daggett, D., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Neyt, C., Maul, J., Gautier, P., Hollway, G., Kennan, D., Currie, P.D., 2003, Cadherin-mediated differential cell adhesion controls slow muscle cell migration in the developing zebrafish myotome, Developmental Cell [P], vol 5, issue 6, Cell Press, USA, pp. 865-876.

Bassett, D.I., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Daggett, D.F., Gautier, P., Keenan, D.G., Currie, P.D., 2003, Dystrophin is required for the formation of stable muscle attachments in the zebrafish embryo, Development [P], vol 130, issue 23, The Company of Biologists, UK, pp. 5851-5860.

Hollway, G., Currie, P.D., 2003, Myotome meanderings. Cellular morphogenesis and the making of muscle, Embo Reports [P], vol 4, issue 9, Nature Publishing Group, UK, Germany, pp. 855-860.

Logan, D.W., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Taylor, M.S., Currie, P.D., Jackson, I.J., 2003, Sequence characterization of teleost fish melanocortin receptors, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences [P], vol 994, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, USA, pp. 319-330.

Logan, D.W., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Pagan, K.E., Taylor, M.S., Currie, P.D., Jackson, I.J., 2003, The structure and evolution of the melanocortin and MCH receptors in fish and mammals, Genomics [P], vol 81, issue 2, Academic Press, USA, pp. 184-191.

Bassett, D.I., Currie, P.D., 2003, The zebrafish as a model for muscular dystrophy and congenital myopathy, Human Molecular Genetics [P], vol 12, issue 2, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. R265-R270.

Hammond, K.L., Hill, R.E., Whitfield, T.T., Currie, P.D., 2002, Isolation of three zebrafish dachshund homologues and their expression in sensory organs, the central nervous system and pectoral fin buds, Mechanisms of Development [P], vol 112, issue 1-2, Elsevier Ireland Ltd, Ireland, pp. 183-189.

Neyt, C., Jagla, K., Thisse, B., Haines, L., Currie, P.D., 2000, Evolutionary origins of vertebrate appendicular muscle, Nature [P], vol 408, issue 6808, Nature Publishing Group, UK, pp. 82-86.

Norris, W., Neyt, C., Ingham, P.W., Currie, P.D., 2000, Slow muscle induction by Hedgehog signalling in vitro, Journal Of Cell Science [P], vol 113, issue 15, The Company of Biologists Ltd, UK, pp. 2695-2703.

Other

Hall, T.E., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Currie, P.D., 2010, Mutations of LAMA2 gene of Zebrafish, Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Actin dynamics in the control of muscle precursor cell migration to the fin bud of zebrafish.

Supervisors:

Currie, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Cellular interplay of pectoral fin myogenic progenitor cells.

Supervisors:

Currie, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Derivation of skeletal muscle progenitors from human embryonic stem cells.

Supervisors:

Barberi, T (Main), Currie, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Investigating muscle regeneration in zebrafish muscular dystrophy mutants.

Supervisors:

Currie, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Nanomedicine based therapies for extracellular matrix diseases.

Supervisors:

Currie, P (Main), Goldshmit, Y (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Origins and genetic control of progenitor and stem cells of the external cell layer.

Supervisors:

Currie, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The role of Filamin C in muscle function and disease.

Supervisors:

Bryson-Richardson, R (Main), Currie, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Vertebrate muscle fusion.

Supervisors:

Currie, P (Main), Yap, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Zebrafish skeletal muscle growth and repair: role of the muscle progenitor cell.

Supervisors:

Currie, P (Joint), Verkade, H (Joint-co).