Victor Anggono, Ph.D.

Education
Bachelor of Science (Hons I) in Pharmacology
University of New South Wales, Australia (2003)

Doctor of Philosophy
University of Sydney, Australia (2007)

Positions
Research Officer (2007)
​Children's Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia

Postdoctoral Fellow (2007 - 2012)
​Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Research Fellow (2012 - 2016)
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Head, Synaptic Neurobiology Laboratory (2014 - present)
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Senior Research Fellow (2016 - 2021)
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Principal Research Fellow (2022 - present)
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Selected Awards
2001 - The Doeremkamp-Zbinden Prize in Pharmacology, University of New South Wales

2002 - The DI McCloskey Prize for Physiology/Pharmacology, University of New South Wales

2002 - The Toxicology Prize, Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT).

2006 - ASBMB Fellowship, Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

2008 - CJ Martin Fellowship, Australian National and Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

2008 - Long-term Fellowship, International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

2011 - The Boomerang Award, ASBMB

2015 - Young Scientist Award, Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB)

2015 - Science to Art Award, NHMRC

2016 - Young Investigator Award, Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry

2017 - Australian China Young Scientists Exchange Program (YSEP) Fellowship, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).

​2017 - Best Poster Award (Theme: Intervention), Australian Dementia Forum.

Research Support
NHMRC Project Grant (GNT1083209) “Targeting the synaptic actin cytoskeleton in Alzheimer’s disease”. CIB, 2015 - 2018

NHMRC Project Grant (GNT1099114) “Sorting out the synapse: the role of intracellular trafficking in NMDA receptor homeostasis”. CIB, 2016 - 2018

NHMRC Project Grant (GNT1103923) “Molecular mechanisms underlying recovery from general anaesthesia”. CIB, 2016 - 2018 

NHMRC Project Grant (GNT1099709) “Voltage-gated calcium channels and vitamin D: exploring the convergent links between risk factors for schizophrenia”. CIC, 2016 - 2020

ARC Project Grant (DP170102402) “Regulation of synaptic vesicle endocytosis by membrane-sensing proteins”. CIA, 2017 - 2019

NHMRC Project Grant (GNT1138452) “Regulation of glutamate receptor trafficking by the calcium- and lipid-binding protein, copine-6”. CIA, 2018 - 2022

ARC Project Grant (DP190101390) “Regulation of glutamate receptor dynamics in mammalian central neurons”. CIA, 2019 - 2022

ARC Project Grant (DP220101645) “Regulation of activity-induced glutamate receptor trafficking in neurons”. CIA, 2022 - 2024

Teaching Experience
BIOM2011 - Integrative Cell and Tissue Biology, Practical Coordinator (2014)

NEUR3001 - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Lecturer  (2016 - present)

Professional Activities
Editorial Board:
  • Scientific Reports (2016 - present)
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (2016 - present)
  • Neural Plasticity (2018 - present)

Ad-hoc Reviewer:
Acta Neuropathologica, Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, Brain, Behaviour and Immunity, Cell Reports, F1000 Research, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Human Molecular Genetics, Journal of Neurochemistry, Journal of Neuroscience, Neural Plasticity, Neurochemistry International, ​Neurochemistry Research, Neuropharmacology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) and Toxicological Sciences.

Grant Reviewer:
  • NHMRC
  • Australian Research Council (ARC)
  • Wellcome Trust DBT (India)
  • Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)
  • Health Research Council of New Zealand
  • Fonds de Recherche du Québec (Canada)
  • Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation

Assistant Chair, NHMRC Grant Review Panel (2014)

Member, Local Organising Committee, 38th Australasian Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting in Brisbane (2018)

Academic Services
External Thesis Examiner:
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Sydney

Member, Institutional Biosafety Sub-committee, The University of Queensland (since 2016).

Member, School of Biomedical Sciences’ Honours Committee, The University of Queensland (since 2014)

Member or Chair of PhD Milestone Committee for 12 current students at the School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Queensland Brain Institute

Invited Talks (since 2015)
2015
  • Public Dementia Forum, Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 19 February 2015.
  • 9th Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Symposium, Brisbane, 23-24 April 2015.
  • Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, 25 May 2015.
  • ​Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1 July 2015.
  • “From Synapses to Circuits and Behaviour” Symposium, Palm Cove, 21-22 August 2015.
  • Young Investigator Colloquium on “Circuitry Plasticity and Development”, 25th Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, Cairns, 23-27 August 2015. 
  • 4th Cell Architecture in Development and Disease Symposium, Sydney, 31 August 2015.
  • Young Scientist Programme, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, 24-26 November 2015.
  • 14th FAOBMB Congress, Hyderabad, India, 27-30 November 2015.

2016
  • Hunter Cell Meeting, Hunter Valley, 12-15 April 2016.
  • School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, 20 May 2016.
  • 39th Meeting of Japan Neuroscience Society, Yokohama, Japan, 20-22 July 2016. 
  • Young Investigator Colloquium, 14th Meeting of the Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27-31 August 2016. 
  • Centenary Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, 25 October 2016.
  • 36th Australasian Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Hobart, 4-7 December 2016.

2017
  • The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Melbourne, 27 June 2017.
  • Young Investigator Colloquium, 26th Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, Paris, France, 20-24 August 2017. 
  • Department of Biomedical Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, 9 October 2017.
  • Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 24 October 2017.
  • IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing China, 25 October 2017.
  • Center for Neuroscience, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 27 October 2017.
  • Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, 30 October 2017.
  • Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, 1 November 2017.
  • 3rd Proteostasis & Disease Symposium, Wollongong, 20-22 November 2017.
  • “Synaptic Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases” Symposium, 37th Australasian Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Sydney, 3-6 December 2017.

Research Trainees
Postdoctoral Fellows 
  • Dr. Jocelyn Widagdo (ARC DECRA Fellow, 2015 - present)
  • Dr. Anson Tan (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020 - present)

Students
  • Sumasri Guntupalli (PhD student, 2015 - present)
  • Tianyi Zhu (PhD student, 2017 - present)
  • He (River) Huang (PhD student, 2018 - present)
  • Xuan Ling Hilary Yong (PhD Student, 2019 - present)
  • Sooraj Das (PhD student, 2020 - present)
  • Jun-Wei Kerk (MSc student, 2018 - present)
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​Lab Alumni
  • Se Eun (Joanne) Jang (Honours student, 2014, Class I and PhD student, 2014 - 2019, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore)
  • Daniel Lim (Honours student, 2015, Class I, Research Assistant at TRI, UQ)
  • Jing Dou (Honours student, 2016, Class IIA)
  • Tianyi Zhu (MSc student, 2016 - 2017, currently pursuing PhD in the lab)
  • Phaedra K. Stevens (Honours student, 2017, Class I, currently a PhD student at QBI, UQ )
  • Dr. Yu Qian Chau (Research Officer, 2014 - 2015, currently a Clinical Registry Officer at QUT)
  • Dr. Men Chee Tan (Research Officer, 2015 - 2017, currently a Research Officer at IMB, UQ)
  • Mitchell Ringuet (Research Assistant, 2018 - 2019, currently a PhD student at University of Melbourne)
  • Huimin Guo (MSc student, 2018 - 2019)
  • Yung-Ching (Wendy) Kao (Honours student, 2019, Class I)