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Peter Koopman is head of the Division of Molecular Genetics and Development at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. His research focuses on genes that regulate embryonic development, with special emphasis on the control of sexual dimorphism and gonadal development. He was part of the team that discovered the Y-chromosomal sex-determining gene Sry, hailed as one of the most important breakthroughs of the 20th century. This work has led to the identification of many other genes important for normal sexual development. Prof Koopman’s team recently discovered the mechanism by which germ cells in the embryo enter the pathway of spermatogenesis or oogenesis, a discovery that may lead to methods for in vitro production of functional gametes from germline stem cells.

Prof Koopman is author of over 160 papers, including 4 in Nature, 7 in Nature Genetics, 1 in Science and 2 in Cell, which together have been cited over 6000 times in the literature. He is on the editorial board of several international journals including Developmental Dynamics, Mechanisms of Development, Nature Reviews Genetics, Biology of the Cell and Sexual Development. Prof Koopman received the AMP Queensland Biomedical Research Award in 1992, the Julian Wells Medal in 1998, the Amersham-Pharmacia Biotech Medal in 2003, the President’s Medal of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology in 2005, and the GSK Award for Research Excellence in 2007. He is a Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council, and a member of the ARC College of Experts.

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