Lisa Selbie

Lisa Selbie is the Assistant Project Coordinator of the Australian Biotechnology Initiative for the Master of Science in Biotechnology, Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Program. Dr. Selbie has worked for many years in medical research after receiving her PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Dr. Selbie completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with Professor John Shine at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in cloning and expressing the first human neuropeptide Y receptor. She continued as a Senior Research Scientist, and became a Project Leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Biopharmaceuticals, developing neuropeptide Y agonists and antagonists. Dr. Selbie then moved to England as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Research Fellow at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, where her lab focused on the signal transduction of neuropeptide and neurotransmitter-stimulated pathways.

Dr. Selbie began teaching in the Advanced Academic Programs in Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University in 2000, and her recent move to Sydney involves exploring ways to expand the graduate program to the international biotechnology community. Dr. Selbie currently teaches Advanced Cell Biology I & II and Molecular Basis of Pharmacology.

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