Wouter Kalle
Lecturer
School of Biomedical Science
Charles Sturt University
Australia
Biography
Wouter Kalle graduated in 1988 as Drs. in Biology from the State University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 1989, he started working as a PhD student at the Department of Radiation Genetics and Chemical Mutagenesis at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. The title of his PhD thesis is 'Immunochemical Analysis of UV-induced repair events in specific DNA sequences of mammalian cells'. He finished his PhD studies in 1993 and started working as a post doc at the Department of Cytochemistry and Cytometry at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. During this period he worked on Atomic Force Microscopy, In situ Hybridization and Immuno-cytochemistry. He took up his present position as lecturer in Molecular Biology in the School of Biomedical Sciences in 1997. His research interests are focused on evolutionary mechanisms in behaviour. He successfully supervised a number of Honours- and PhD students which has resulted in journal articles in international peer reviewed journals. Since 2007 he is Program Leader for the Bachelor of Medical Science.
Research Interest
Biomedical science
