From 2003 to 2007 I studied "Mechano-Electric Feedback in the Mammalian Heart" (MEF) which describes how external physical forces applied to the heart can bring about anomalies in the normal electrical cycle.

Here I would like to thank my helpful and supportive mentors; Professor Caroline McMillen, Dr Lorraine Mackenzie, Assoc Professor Michael Roberts and Dr Stewart Von Itzstein as well as my supervisor - Assoc Prof David Saint for providing all the support I needed. I am most grateful to these people with an extra special thanks to Lorraine for her personal involvement.

PhD proposal & review!

Below are links to a few of my first year presentations:

My PhD Proposal (pdf ~150k)

Oral presentation (ppt ~3.5Mb)

Online presentation (~1Mb)

MEF - The big dream?

Despite our anticipations and my best intentions, it was becoming more and more evident with each experimental completion that MEF in the heart was not as robust as we had once thought!

Testing for MEF in isolated cardiac papillary muscles and trabeculae proved challenging but was well worth the effort.

2004 presentation (pdf ~100k)

2005

2005 presentation (pdf ~110k)

2006

2006 presentation (pdf ~160k)

Final write-up!

Final Thesis (pdf ~5.1Mb)