Rod Devenish 教授简介：

Professor Rod Devenish has held academic positions in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University since returning, in 1982, from a postdoctoral position at the University of Iowa. He is one of the founding Chief Investigators, and since late 2008, the Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics based at Monash.

In recent years the Devenish laboratory has been engaged primarily in research on autophagy, the catabolic processes by which a cell's own components are degraded through the lysosomal machinery. A major focus of research is to understand how autophagy is avoided or subverted in the infection of mammalian cells by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of the disease Melioidosis. In addition, fundamental studies of organelle turnover (particularly mitochondria) by autophagy are conducted using yeast as the experimental model. Professor Devenish is a member of the editorial board for the journal Autophagy.

Project Areas
Autophagy and organelle turnover in cells, focusing on mitochondria.
How autophagy can be avoided or subverted in bacterial infection of mammalian cells.
Autophagy in human embryonic stem cells.