Associate Professor Phil Batterham
Research Director of CESAR
Chemical Stress Program

Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute
30 Flemington Rd
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia.

Tel: +61 3 8344 2363
Fax: +61 3 9347 5352
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Phil Batterham completed his undergraduate education at LaTrobe University. After an Honours year (1976) under the supervision of John McKenzie, he undertook a PhD in the Department of Genetics at Monash University with Steve McKechnie. Phil then moved to Syracuse University in 1980 for postdoctoral research with Tom Starmer and David Sullivan. He returned to the University of Melbourne to take up a postdoctoral fellowship with Jim Camakaris before becoming a Lecturer in the Department of Genetics in 1984. In 2004 Phil was promoted to the level of Associate Professor and Reader. In 2006 he became Associate Dean (Communications & Development) in the Faculty of Science.

• Secretary, International Genetics Federation
• Secretary for Sustaining Members, Genetics Society of AustralAsia
• Convenor, Australian Genome Alliance
• Club Melbourne Ambassador

Awards and Honours

• Celebrating Melbourne Award for Business Services 2004, City of Melbourne
• Meeting of the Year Award - Victoria (500+ Delegates) – Meetings and Eventis Industry Awards (2004)
• Finalist, Eureka Award (2004) for Promoting the Understanding of Science
• University of Melbourne Research and Higher Degree Supervision Award (2006)
• Carrick Citation (2006) for Research Higher Degree Supervision & Mentoring

Recent Publications

Daborn, P., Yen, J., Bogwitz, M., Le Goff, G., Feil, E., Jeffers, S., Tijet, N., Perry, T., Heckel, D., Batterham, P., Feyereisen, R., Wilson, T. and R. ffrench-Constant (2002). A single P450 allele associated with insecticide resistance in global populations of Drosophila. Science 297:2253-6.

Siddall, N. A., Behan, K. J., Crew, J. R., Cheung, T. L., Fair, J. A., Batterham, P. and J. A. Pollock (2003). Mutations in lozenge and D-Pax2 invoke ectopic patterned cell death in developing Drosophila using distinct mechanisms. Development, Genes and Evolution 213: 107-19.

Tan-Kristanto, A., Hoffmann, A., Woods, R., Batterham, P., Cobbett, C. and C. Sinclair (2003). Translational asymmetry as a sensitive indicator of cadmium stress in plants: a laboratory test with wild-type and mutant Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 159: 471-7.

Milton, C. C., Huynh, B., Batterham, P., Rutherford, S. L. and A. Hoffmann (2003). Quantitative trait symmetry independent of Hsp90 buffering: Distinct modes of genetic canalization and developmental stability. Accepted for publication in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 100(23):13396-401

Pyke, F., Batterham, P. and J. A. McKenzie (2004). The genetic basis of resistance to diazinon in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Accepted for publication in Genetica. 121(1):  pp. 13-24

Macdonald, S.S., L. Rako, P. Batterham and A. A. Hoffmann. (2004). Dissecting chill coma recovery as a measure of cold resistance: evidence for a biphasic response in Drosophila melanogaster, Journal of Insect Physiology 50: 687-766.

Magoc, L., J. L. Yen, A. Hill-Williams, J. A. McKenzie, P. Batterham and P. J. Daborn. (2005). Cross-resistance to dicyclanil in cyromazine-resistant mutants of Drosophila melanogaster and Lucilia cuprina Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 81: 129-135

Bogwitz, M.R., Chung, H., Magoc, L., Rigby, S., Wong, W., O’Keefe, M., McKenzie, J.A., Batterham, P. and P.J. Daborn (2005). Cyp12a4 confers lufenuron resistance in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 102(36):12807-12.

Chen, Z., Smith, K.R., Batterham, P., and C. Robin (2005). Smg1 nonsense mutations do not abolish nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 171(1): 403-6.

Jackson Behan, K., Fair, J., Singh, S., Bogwitz, M., Perry, T., Grubor, V., Cunningham, F., Nichols, C.D., Cheung, T.L., Batterham, P. and J.A. Pollock (2005). Alternative splicing removes an Ets interaction domain from Lozenge during Drosophila eye development. Dev. Genes Evol. 215(8):423-35.

Milton C.C., Batterham, P., McKenzie, J.A. and A.A. Hoffmann (2005). Effect of E(sev) and Su(Raf) Hsp83 mutants and trans-heterozygotes on bristle trait means and variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 171(1):119-30.

Batterham, P., Hill-Williams, A., Levot, G., Sales, N. and J. A. McKenzie. (2006). The genetic bases of high-level resistance to diflubenzuron and low-level resistance to cyromazine in a field strain of the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 45: 87-90

Chen, Z., Robin, C., Damiano, J., Lydall, J., Lumb, C., Smith, K., Blasetti, A., Daborn, P.J., Heckel, D., McKenzie, J.A. and P. Batterham. (2006). Positional cloning of a cyromazine resistance gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Mol Biol. 15:181-6

Norgate, M., Lee, E., Southon, A., Farlow, A., Batterham, P., Camakaris, J. and R. Burke. (2006). Essential roles in development and pigmentation for the Drosophila copper transporter DmATP7. Mol. Biol. Cell. 17: 475-84.

Van de Wouw, A. P., Batterham, P. and P. J. Daborn. (2006) The insect growth regulator insecticide cyromazine causes earlier emergence in Drosophila melanogaster. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology (in press)

Willoughby, L., Chung, H., Lumb, C., Robin, C., Batterham, P., and P. J. Daborn. (2006). A comparison of Drosophila melanogaster detoxification gene induction responses for six insecticides, caffeine and phenobarbital. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (in press).