Kieran Harvey
Associate Professor
Medicine
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Kieran Harvey is interested in the fundamental biological question of organ size control. His laboratory focuses on how deregulation of signalling networks that control organ size contributes to cancer, employing multiple model systems including the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Research Interest
Organogenesis and Cancer
Publications
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A Drosophila RNAi library modulates Hippo pathway-dependent tissue growth. Vissers JH, Manning SA, Kulkarni A, Harvey KF. Nat Commun. 2016 Jan 13;7:10368.
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The Hippo Pathway Regulates Neuroblasts and Brain Size in Drosophila melanogaster. Poon CL, Mitchell KA, Kondo S, Cheng LY, Harvey KF. Curr Biol. 2016 Apr 25;26(8):1034-42.
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Hippo Wades into Cancer Immunology. Gebhardt T, Harvey KF. Dev Cell. 2016 Dec 19;39(6):635-637.
