Carol Behm

Group membership

Carolyn Behm received a BSc (Hons) in Cell Biology and Zoology and a PhD from The Australian National University, in which she studied biochemistry of tapeworms. After several years' teaching and research at the University of Malaya, she returned to the Department of Zoology at The Australian National University to investigate biochemistry of helminth parasites. In 1987 Dr Behm commenced a lectureship in the Department of Biochemistry, where she taught cell biology and biochemistry while continuing research in helminth biochemistry and host pathophysiology. She held an ARC Senior Research Fellowship from 1992-1997. In recent years Dr Behm's research has focussed on aspects of nematode molecular biology, using the powerful model organism, Caenorhabditis elegans.

Research interests

Molecular genetics and functional genomics of nematodes.

Recent grants

  • 2011-2013 Commercialisation Australia 'Development of an in vitro assay of a new anti-nematode drug target' $50,000 (C.A. Behm)
  • 2011-2012 Discovery Translation Fund, ANU Connect Ventures 'Development and evaluation of an in vitro nematode permeability assay to discover new classes of anti-nematode drugs' $99,625 (C.A. Behm)
  • 2007 – 2010 Australian Wool Innovation Ltd/Meat and Livestock Australia Ltd ‘Identification and validation of new drug targets for control of gastrointestinal nematode parasites of sheep’ $1,936,744 (C.A. Behm, J. Zawadzki, A. Kotze)
  • 2006 – 2010 Grains Research & Development Corporation ‘Exploring a model system to develop controls for plant parasitic nematodes’ $424,000 (C.A. Behm, S. Trowell, U. Mathesius)
  • 2006 – 2009 CSIRO Food Futures Flagship Cluster Collaboration ‘Learning the principles of olfactory pattern recognition from insects and nematodes’ $2,080,364 (M. Srinivasan, J. Reinhard, C. Claudianos, C. Warr, C. Behm, U. Mathesius).

Carol supervises PhB ASC, undergraduate and Honours research projects.

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