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
Assoc. Prof. Trisha Jenkins is the Assistant Associate Dean of Human Biosciences within the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT University.
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)
Assoc. Prof. Trisha Jenkins is the Assistant Associate Dean of Human Biosciences which runs the Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences program (BP311), Pharmaceutical Sciences Honours industry placement program (BH121) and Bachelor of Biomedical Science program (BP231). She teaches neuropharmacology, neurophysiology and career development to health and biomedical science students including pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacy, and biomedical science at all year levels.
- 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)
- Jenkins, T. (2022). Metabolic Syndrome and Vascular-Associated Cognitive Impairment: a Focus on Preclinical Investigations In: Current Diabetes reports, 22, 333 - 340
- 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
- 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.