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Role Team Leader / Senior Research Officer
Research area Genomic Medicine

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Available for student supervision
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) : 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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