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Alex Ching-Tai Ng specialises in fundamental and applied research in structural health monitoring (SHM). He earned his B.Eng. with First-class honours and M.Phil. from the City University of Hong Kong in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and his Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Queensland under a full scholarship. During his study, he received a number of awards, such as Arup Best Student Award, Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Student and Best Student Paper Award by the International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, and won the Airbus Fly Your Ideas Challenge Competition in 2009.
Dr Ng is current a Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. He jointed the School in 2011 and subsequently received Australian Research Council - Early Career Research Awarded (ARC-DECRA) in international open competition. He has supervised and been supervising a number of Ph.D. students, and a number of MEng and B.Eng. students in their one year research project. He has published over 40 refereed technical papers in journals and conference proceedings and delivered some 20 talks at international conferences and public seminars in different countries. He has successfully secured competitive research grants in the capacity of chief investigator from government and university.
His research interests include SHM, guided wave non-destructive evaluation, system identification, engineering reliability and risk analysis and composite materials. He is interested in applying SHM techniques to different engineering areas. He has worked with industry, e.g. CRC-ACS and Airbus Limited, and is currently holding an international patent.
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Flies Give Another Twist In The Evolving Story Of Heredity
A female neriid fly (right) laying eggs, while her mate fights off a rival male. Angela Crean and Russell Bonduriansky. Credit: Author providedBy
and Thanks to the father of modern genetics, , and his experiments cross-breading peas, the textbooks tell us that we know how inheritance works: we get 50% of our genes from our mums and 50% of our genes from our dads.But is something else at play in determining how the offspring may look? That’s what we’ve discovered in certain flies which may extend to other species.Our phenotype (the way we actually end up functioning, looking and behaving) is influenced by the environment. But as this change in appearance does not change our genotype, it should not change what we pass on to our children. Or so we thought.Before scientists decided we had it all figured out, there were lots of different ideas about how traits are inherited.In the 19th century, the main competing theory of inheritance (commonly referred to as Lamarckian inheritance after French naturalist ) was the idea that characteristics acquired throughout an individual’s lifetime can be passed on to offspring.Lamarckians pointed to the example of the giraffe’s neck, which supposedly got to be so long because giraffe ancestors stretched their necks to reach the tasty leaves on the highest branches, and then passed on their stretched necks to their offspring.
Did giraffes develop long necks from generations reaching ever higher for food in the tree tops?
This sounds ridiculous to our modern ears, because the inheritance of acquired characters was tossed into the scientific dustbin nearly a century ago. It was simply deemed to be incompatible with Mendel’s laws and the properties of genes.Yet, curiously enough, in the 21st century, it is becoming more and more apparent that Lamarck was at least partially correct.Non-genetic inheritanceWe all know that what a mother eats during pregnancy can influence the growth, development and health of her child. This is easy to understand, as we can see the direct link between mother and child.But did you know that what a father eats may also influence the development and health of his child?Research suggests that children are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and diabetes if their father and grandfather had plenty of food to eat during their pre-pubescence years. Paternal smoking and betel-quid chewing have also been linked to adverse health in children.Experiments on rats have shown that such effects may be explained by epigenetic inheritance. Epigenetic factors are molecules that adhere to the DNA, and control how our cells use the genetic information.Most epigenetic variation is erased when eggs and sperm are produced, allowing the fertilised egg to start life with a clean slate. But recently, scientists have discovered that some of the epigenetic variation survives the erasure, and is transmitted from parent to child.
Be careful what you eat at an early age because it could affect your offspring.
Importantly, epigenetic factors can be influenced by environmental factors, including diet. Thus, via epigenetic inheritance, what you eat can influence the features of your offspring and grandoffspring – a discovery that would have knocked early 20th century geneticists off their chairs.Curiouser and curiouserAnother theory of inheritance that was discarded with the advent of genetics is telegony – the belief that offspring can inherit characteristics of a previous mate of their mother, and thus come to bear a resemblance to a male who is not their father.Could non-genetic mechanisms of inheritance allow telegony to occur as well?In addition to epigenetics, there are several other biological pathways through which the paternal environment could influence offspring traits. For example, it is well known that seminal fluid can carry sexually transmitted disease and infections.But semen also carries a cocktail of proteins, sugars, enzymes and hormones. There is good evidence that seminal compounds transmitted by a male can alter the physiology and behavior of its mating partner.Moreover, if seminal compounds are also absorbed by eggs, then the semen could potentially influence the development of offspring – perhaps including offspring that develop from eggs ultimately fertilized by a different male.What do the flies tell us?We recently carried out an experiment in which we fed male fly larvae a diet low in nutrients (resulting in small adults) or high in nutrients (resulting in large adults), and then mated these small and large males to immature females to expose their developing eggs to seminal fluid.
Male nertid flies jostling for position above an egg-laying female.
Russell Bonduriansky, Author provided
Two weeks later, we mated each female to a second small or large male to fertilize her mature eggs.Genetic paternity analysis confirmed that the second male sired the offspring.But offspring size was determined by the diet of the first male that the female mated with. In other words, semen from small males resulted in small offspring while semen from large males resulted in large offspring.The potential for such effects exists in any species where females can mate with more than one male and eggs are fertilized internally. But we do not yet know whether similar effects can occur in other species, and (contrary to what you might ) there is no evidence of telegony in humans.Revisiting telegony and other discredited theories of inheritance with our modern understanding of non-genetic mechanisms of inheritance will, we hope, ultimately contribute to a more complete understanding of heredity.Angela Crean, ARC DECRA Fellow at UNSW Australia, receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Russell Bonduriansky, Evolutionary Biologist at UNSW Australia, receives funding from the Australian Research Council.This article was originally published on .
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关于澳大利亚DECRA结果
请问澳大利亚的DECRA申请，我有三个问题请教大家：
& &&&1. ARC会联系导师发推荐信吗？ 别的奖学金貌似都需要推荐信
& &&&2. 是不是快出结果了？结果会在ARC网上查到吗？是网上公布早，还是自己收到email通知早？
& && &3. 除了85k 的salary，每个学校都给补贴些钱吗？听说悉尼大学的给补助2万左右
& &&&愿大家 多指导，谢谢！
1你应该写过proposal吧，D2就是学校给你写的推荐啊，比个人推荐牛逼多了。
2肯定是ARC网页最早，小道消息除外。
3工资每个人可能都是不一样的，要看你自己的资历，你要是有信心可以和学校或者老板谈。 明天(11.4)出结果，祝LZ成功。 1. ARC要求学校出具statement，学校会要求导师写其中的一部分
2 网上公布最早
3. 2万指的是工资还是项目经费？因为ARC只出68000的税前工资，这个钱离悉尼大部分学校A8的水平有些差距，大部分学校会补上这个。但是悉尼大学A8有88000？估计没那么多，要么这个2万的数据有出入，要么就是还给了写项目经费。 好像DECRA和洪堡都是明天宣布结果，真巧。估计明天又是几家欢喜几家忧了 http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/decra/funding_outcomes.htm http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/decra/funding_outcomes.htm
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