Chief Investigator & Centre Deputy-Director Professor Rod Devenish Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800 Phone: +61 (3) 9905 3782 Fax: +61 (3) 9905 3726 Email: Rod.Devenish@med.monash.edu.au
		Professor Rod Devenish is Deputy Director of the Research Graduate School and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University. In October 2008 he also became the Centre’s Deputy Director. Rod has an established international reputation in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) molecular cell biology with research that has focused principally on aspects of mitochondrial biogenesis, in particular the structure and function of ATP synthase.
		More recently he has developed a major research interest in the area of autophagy. In collaboration with Centre colleagues he is investigating the interaction of bacterial pathogens with mammalian host cell autophagy. Other aspects of his work on autophagy concern the turnover of organelles, particularly mitochondria and the nucleus, in yeast.
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