STAFF PROFILE
Professor Sarah Spencer
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Health and Biomedical Sciences
Phone:
+61399257745
Email:
sarah.spencer@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora West Campus
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Research supervision
- Eastick, D.,Edwards, A.,Griffiths, S.,Spencer, S.,Robert, K. (2021). Validation of quantitative magnetic resonance as a non-invasive measure of body composition in an Australian microbat In: Australian Mammalogy, 43, 196 - 202
- Xavier, S.,Gili, J.,McGowan, P.,Younesi, S.,Wright, P.,Walker, D.,Spencer, S.,Sominsky, L. (2021). High maternal omega-3 supplementation dysregulates body weight and leptin in newborn male and female rats: Implications for hypothalamic developmental programming In: Nutrients, 13, 1 - 19
- Sominsky, L.,Younesi, S.,De Luca, S.,Loone, S.,Quinn, K.,Spencer, S. (2021). (In Press) Ovarian follicles are resistant to monocyte perturbations-implications for ovarian health with immune disruption In: Biology of Reproduction, , 1 - 13
- Sominsky, L.,Younesi, S.,De Luca, S.,Loone, S.,Quinn, K.,Spencer, S. (2021). Ovarian follicles are resistant to monocyte perturbations—implications for ovarian health with immune disruption In: Biology of Reproduction, 105, 100 - 112
- Soch, A.,Spencer, S. (2020). Consequences of early life overfeeding for microglia – Perspectives from rodent models In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 88, 256 - 261
- Soch, A.,Sominsky, L.,Younesi, S.,De Luca, S.,Gunasekara Kaluarachchige, M.,Bozinovski, S.,Spencer, S. (2020). The role of microglia in the second and third postnatal weeks of life in rat hippocampal development and memory In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 88, 675 - 687
- Sominsky, L.,Walker, D.,Spencer, S. (2020). One size does not fit all – Patterns of vulnerability and resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic and why heterogeneity of disease matters In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 87, 1 - 3
- Kelley, K.,Peng, Y.,Liu, Q.,Chang, H.,Spencer, S.,Hutchinson, M.,Shimada, A. (2020). Psychoneuroimmunology goes East: Development of the PNIRSChina affiliate and its expansion into PNIRSAsia-Pacific In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 88, 75 - 87
- Vichaya, E.,Malik, S.,Sominsky, L.,Ford, B.,Spencer, S.,Dantzer, R. (2020). Microglia depletion fails to abrogate inflammation-induced sickness in mice and rats In: Journal of neuroinflammation, 17, 1 - 14
- Sominsky, L.,Dangel, T.,Malik, S.,De Luca, S.,Singewald, N.,Spencer, S. (2020). Microglial ablation in rats disrupts the circadian system In: FASEB Journal, 35, 1 - 10
- Identifying novel targets for treating the diseases of the brain: microglial metabolism as a treatment option. Funded by: CASS Foundation - grant from (2021 to 2022)
- Targeting the brain’s immune system to understand, prevent, and treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Funded by: Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation Project Research Grant 2017 onwards from (2020 to 2023)
- Delayed start therapy for improving brain health after perinatal brain injury; a proof-of-concept targeting dysfunctional microglia. Funded by: Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation - competitive from (2019 to 2022)
- Novel pharmacological strategies to treat cognitive dysfunction in COPD. Funded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grants 2017 (for funding commencing in 2018) from (2018 to 2022)
- Neuroinflammation in the development of dementia. Funded by: 097-Alzheimer's Australia Dementia Research Foundation Grants 2017 from (2018 to 2019)
5 PhD Current Supervisions6 PhD Completions
Perinatal programming of adult behaviour, stress, and immune function. The impact of obesity on responses to stress and immune challenge, Ghrelin's role in stress and neuroprotection after ischaemic stroke.