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, P, Kulkarni, RN, Baldock, PA.
Neuronal control of bone and muscle.
Bone
80:
95 -100
2015
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Houweling, P, Seto, J, Garton, F, Quinlan, K, Head, S, North, K.
G.O.2 A gene for speed: The influence of ACTN3 on muscle performance in health and disease.
Neuromuscular Disorders
25:
s185
2015
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Palmer, DN, Neverman, NJ, Chen, JZ, Chang, C-T, Houweling, PJ, Barry, LA, Tammen, I, Hughes, SM, Mitchell, NL.
Recent studies of ovine neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses from BARN, the Batten Animal Research Network.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta
1852(10)
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2279 -2286
2015
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Yuen, M, Sandaradura, SA, Dowling, JJ, Kostyukova, AS, Moroz, N, Quinlan, KG, Lehtokari, V-L, Ravenscroft, G, Todd, EJ, Ceyhan-Birsoy, O, et al.
Leiomodin-3 dysfunction results in thin filament disorganization and nemaline myopathy.
Journal of Clinical Investigation
125(1)
:
456 -457
2015
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Yuen, M, Sandaradura, SA, Dowling, JJ, Kostyukova, AS, Moroz, N, Quinlan, KG, Lehtokari, V-L, Ravenscroft, G, Todd, EJ, Ceyhan-Birsoy, O, et al.
Leiomodin-3 dysfunction results in thin filament disorganization and nemaline myopathy.
Journal of Clinical Investigation
124(11)
:
4693 -4708
2014
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