STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Trisha Jenkins
Position:
Assist.AD Biomedical Sciences(Human Bio)
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Health and Biomedical Sciences
Phone:
+61399256523
Email:
trisha.jenkins@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora West
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Jenkins is a senior lecturer and researcher at RMIT. She is program coordinator for the Pharmaceutical Sciences programs and coordinates and teaches neuropharmacology and neurophysiology into courses at all year levels.
Dr Jenkins is a behavioural neuroscientist with a particular focus on the neurochemical, anatomical and behavioural basis of memory and mood. She is currently undertaking research and supervising research students in the following areas:
- Understanding the cognitive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
- The neurodevelopmental causes of psychosis
- Positive effects of exercise on the brain
- Obesity and cognitive decline
Academic distinctions, awards and funding since 2012
- IBRO Women in World Neuroscience Network travel grant (2016)
- NHMRC Seed Dementia grant Grant – Callaway, Royse, Royse and Jenkins (2012)
- Head of School Award, School of Medical Sciences (2012)
- Most Inspiring Higher Degrees by Research supervisor award, School of Medical Sciences (2012)
Dr Jenkins is the program coordinator for the Pharmaceutical Sciences program (BP311) and Pharmaceutical Sciences Honours industry placement program (BH121). She coordinates the third year course Professional Skills Development for the Pharmaceutical Scientist (ONPS2534); and Research Methods for Health and Medical Science 1: Case Study (ONPS2542) and Professional Research Project 1: Development and Implementation (ONPS2540) within the Honours program.
Dr Jenkins teaches at all year levels to pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacy, biomedical science, osteopathy, Chinese medicine, chiropractic, and nursing students.
Administration within RMIT
- Program co-ordination BP311 and BH121
- RMIT Animal Management Committee Member
- SHBS Orientation Week planning Committee Member
- SHBS Biomedical Science cluster Orientation Organiser
- BSc, Monash University (1988)
- PhD (Medicine), University of Melbourne (1997)
- PGCHET, Queen’s University, Belfast (2007)
Member of professional associations
- Society for Neuroscience
- British Association of Psychopharmacology
- Australian Neuroscience Society
- Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists
Professional and community involvement
- Associate editor BMC Research Notes and BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Receiving editor Frontiers in Integrative Physiology
- Assessor for scientific journals including:
- Behavioural Brain Research
- Brain Research
- Brain Research Bulletin
- European Journal of Neurology
- Hippocampus
- Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Journal of Neurochemistry
- Journal of Psychopharmacology
- Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
- Neuroscience
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Schizophrenia Bulletin
- Grant assessor
- NHMRC
- Medical Research Council (UK)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)
- Habeeballah, H.,Alsuhaymi, N.,Stebbing, M.,Jenkins, T.,Badoer, E. (2017). Central administration of insulin and leptin together enhance renal sympathetic nerve activity and Fos production in the arcuate nucleus In: Frontiers in Physiology, 7, 1 - 9
- Nguyen, J.,Ali, S.,Kosari, S.,Woodman, O.,Spencer, S.,Killcross, S.,Jenkins, T. (2017). Western diet chow consumption in rats induces striatal neuronal activation while reducing dopamine levels without affecting spatial memory in the radial arm maze In: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 1 - 10
- Cheung, J.,Li, S.,Zhang, X.,Wang, H.,Herbert, T.,Jenkins, T.,Xu, A.,Ye, J. (2017). Chronic activation of PPAR alpha with fenofibrate reduces autophagic proteins in the liver of mice independent of FGF21 In: PLoS ONE, 12, 1 - 10
- MCKIBBEN, C.,Reynolds, G.,Jenkins, T. (2016). Concurrent risperidone administration attenuates the development of locomotor sensitization following sub-chronic phencyclidine in rats In: Pharmacopsychiatry, 49, 62 - 65
- Camera, D.,Coleman, H.,Parkington, H.,Jenkins, T.,Pow, D.,Boase, N.,Kumar, S.,Poronnik, P. (2016). Learning, memory and long-term potentiation are altered in Nedd4 heterozygous mice In: Behavioural Brain research, 303, 176 - 181
- Spencer, S.,Jenkins, T. (2016). Perinatal and postnatal determinants of brain development: recent studies and methodological advances In: Prenatal and Postnatal Determinants of Development (Neuromethods Vol 109), Humana Press, United States
- Jenkins, T.,Nguyen, J.,Hart, J. (2016). Decreased vascular H2S production is associated with vascular oxidative stress in rats fed a high-fat western diet In: Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 389, 783 - 790
- Habeeballah, H.,Alsuhaymi, N.,Stebbing, M.,Jenkins, T.,Badoer, E. (2016). Central leptin and resistin combined elicits enhanced central effects on renal sympathetic nerve activity In: Experimental Physiology, 101, 791 - 800
- De Luca, S.,Ziko, I.,Sominsky, L.,Nguyen, J.,Dinan, T.,Miller, A.,Jenkins, T.,Spencer, S. (2016). Early life overfeeding impairs spatial memory performance by reducing microglial sensitivity to learning In: Journal of Neuroinflammation, 13, 1 - 15
- Ali, S.,Nguyen, J.,Jenkins, T.,Woodman, O. (2016). Tocotrienol-rich tocomin attenuates oxidative stress and improves endothelium-dependent relaxation in aortae from rats fed a high-fat Western diet In: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 3, 1 - 11
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
3 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
I am interested in how brain neurochemistry and anatomy contributes to learning and memory deficits and mood changes in animal models of neurological disease, in particular in deficits associated with psychiatric problems.