Dr Peter Houweling is a Team leader and senior research officer in the Muscle Research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney and post-doctoral appointments at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, before moving the MCRI in 2013.
He has almost 15 years of experience in the laboratory where he is working to understand the impact of genetic variants on skeletal muscle performance in health and disease.
His Team now focuses on using stem cells to model and test new treatments for patients with genetic muscle diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) and other congenital muscular dystrophies.
Dr Peter Houweling is a Team leader and senior research officer in the Muscle Research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney and post-doctoral appointments at the Children’s...
Dr Peter Houweling is a Team leader and senior research officer in the Muscle Research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney and post-doctoral appointments at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, before moving the MCRI in 2013.
He has almost 15 years of experience in the laboratory where he is working to understand the impact of genetic variants on skeletal muscle performance in health and disease.
His Team now focuses on using stem cells to model and test new treatments for patients with genetic muscle diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) and other congenital muscular dystrophies.
Top Publications
Houweling, PJ, Coles, CA, Tiong, CF, Nielsen, B, Graham, A, McDonald, P, Suter, A, Piers, AT, Forbes, R, Ryan, MM, et al.
Generating an iPSC line (with isogenic control) from the PBMCs of an ACTA1 (p.Gly148Asp) nemaline myopathy patient.
Stem Cell Research
54:
102429
2021
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Wyckelsma, VL, Venckunas, T, Houweling, PJ, Schlittler, M, Lauschke, VM, Tiong, CF, Wood, HD, Ivarsson, N, Paulauskas, H, Eimantas, N, et al.
Loss of α-actinin-3 during human evolution provides superior cold resilience and muscle heat generation.
American Journal of Human Genetics
108(3)
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446 -457
2021
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Seto, J, Roeszler, K, Meehan, L, Wood, H, Tiong, C, Bek, L, Lee, C, Gregorevic, P, Houweling, P, North, K.
LATE BREAKING NEWS E-POSTER PRESENTATION LBP 10 ACTN3 genotype influences skeletal muscle mass regulation and the response to dexamethasone.
Neuromuscular Disorders
30:
s170
2020
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Kiriaev, L, Kueh, S, Morley, JW, North, KN, Houweling, PJ, Head, SI.
Isolated extensor digitorum longus muscles from old mdx dystrophic mice show little force recovery 120 minutes after eccentric damage.
The FASEB Journal
34(S1)
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1 -1
2020
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Kiriaev, L, Kueh, S, Morley, JW, North, KN, Houweling, PJ, Head, SI.
Isolated Extensor Digitorum Longus Muscles from Old mdx Dystrophic Mice Show Little Force Recovery 120 Minutes after Eccentric Damage.
Biophysical Journal
118(3)
:
121a
2020
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