Craig Smith
Associate Professor Craig Smith is a reproductive developmental biologist based in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University. He has a particular interest embryonic gonadal sex differentiation, using the chicken embryo as a model. Craig graduated in 1995 with first class Honours and a PhD in zoology at Macquarie University in Sydney. Working with Professor Jean Joss, he studied the mechanism of temperature-dependent sex determination in crocodilians (crocodiles and alligators). He later joined the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne as an ARC Future Fellow, modeling sex determination and gonadal development in the chicken embryo. He identified the avian sex-determining gene, DMRT1, and his group has since defined the molecular and cellular processes underlying testis versus ovary development in the chicken model. Craig is currently a teaching and research academic and heads the Comparative Development Group in the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University.
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