Doctor Jeff Mann

contact details

Doctor Jeff Mann
Stem Cell Epigenetics Group
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Royal Children's Hospital
Flemington Road
Parkville Victoria 3052

T  +61 3 9936 6516
E  jeff.mann@mcri.edu.au

biography

Jeff received his Bachelor of Science in 1976 from La Trobe University. In 1982 he was awarded a Masters of Science from The University of Melbourne's Department of Paediatrics, which was supervised by James Camakaris and David Danks. In 1987, Jeff received his PhD from the University of London's MRC Mammalian Development Unit, with supervisors Robin Lovell-Badge and Anne McLaren, his thesis entitled 'Studies on Nuclear Transplantation in Mice'. Jeff then worked at Monash University's Centre for Early Human Development in sperm microinjection as a treatment for infertility. Postdoctoral work was completed with Andrew McMahon at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in the US in early mammalian neural development, and in mammalian parthenogenesis and androgenesis with Colin Stewart. From 1991-2005, Jeff headed the Mammalian Development research group at Los Angeles' City of Hope Medical Center, where he became a full professor in 2003. Here he continued basic research in the epigenetics of mammalian development, particularly as it applies to genomic imprinting and the mammalian germ line. Jeff joined the Department of Zoology at The University of Melbourne in 2005 as an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, and subsequently moved to MCRI in 2008 to start the Stem Cell Epigenetics Group, where he is an active mentor of honours and postgraduate students. Jeff has published in high-impact journals, including Nature Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology.