Staff CV: Roger Stankovic

Dr Roger STANKOVIC, BSc; PhD (Med)

Senior Hospital Scientist

Contact Details
Room 520
Discipline of Pathology
5th Floor, Blackburn Building, D06
University of Sydney, NSW, 2006
Telephone: +61 2 9351 4159
Fax: +61 2 9351 3429
Email: rogers@med.usyd.edu.au

Professional Biography

2006 - present	Visiting Scholar, Discipline of Pathology, University of Sydney
1997 - present	Laboratory Manager, Central Sydney Area Health Service/Senior Hospital Scientist, Neuropathology Unit, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney

Research Interests

The protective effects of a small metal-binding protein called Metallothionein on mercury vapour exposure in mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
The perhipheral and central nervous system (PNS, CNS) structure in MT-I, II deficient mice and superoxide dismutase (SOD-1) transgenic mice
White matter changes of the CNS in thiamine deficient alcohol-preferring (P)-rats
White and gray matter changes in the schizophrenia brain
The role of quinolinic acid and indoleamine dioxygenase (IDO) in neurodegenerative diseases particularly ALS and Creutzfeltd Jakob's disease (CJD)
Neuropathology of sporadic CJD

Collaborations

Dr Karen Cullen, Discipline of Anatomy, University of Sydney
Dr Roger Chung, Neuro Repair Group, University of Tasmania.
Associate Professor Melina Penkowa, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dr Gilles Guillemin, Centre for Immunology and University of New South Wales, School of Medicine and School of Medical Sciences

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'Top 10' Publications

He X, Sullivan EV, Stankovic RK, Harper CG, Pfefferbaum A (2007). Interaction of Thiamine Deficiency and Voluntary Alcohol Consumption Disrupts Rat Corpus Callosum Ultrastructure. Neuropsychopharmocology (IN PRESS).
Stankovic RK, Chung RS, Penkowa M. (2007). Metallothioneins I and II: Neuroprotective significance during CNS pathology. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 39: 484-489.
Stankovic RK. (2006). Decreased Neurofilament Density in Large Myelinated Axons of Metallothionien-I, II KO mice. Neuroscience Letters 402: (1-2) 1-6.
Stankovic RK. (2006). Atrophy of Large-Myelinated Motor Axons and Declining Muscle Grip Strength Following Mercury Vapour Inhalation in Mice. Inhalation Toxicology 18: (1) 57-69.
Stankovic RK. (2005). Atrophy of Large Myelinated Axons in Metallothionein-I, II Knockout Mice. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology 25: (5): 943-953. [RAPID COMMUNICATION]
Stankovic RK, Shindge M, Cullen KM. (2005) The Experimental Toxicology of Metallic Mercury on the Murine Peripheral Motor System: A Novel Method for Assessing Axon Calibre Spectra Using the Phrenic Nerve. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 147: 114-125.
Stankovic RK, Lee V, Kekic M, Harper C. (2003). The Expression and Significance of Metallothioneins in Murine Organs and Tissues Following Mercury vapour Exposure. Toxicologic Pathology 31: 514-523.
Li LX, Crotty KA, Palmer AA, Kril JJ, Stankovic R, Scolyer RA, McCarthy SW. (2002). Differentiating Benign Nevi from Malignant Melanoma using DNA Microdensitometry and Karyometry and Maturation: a Zonal Comparison, Correlation and Multivariate Analysis. Analytical & Quantitative Cytology & Histology 24(4): 234-243
Grace J, Stankovic R, Gupta L. (1993). Detection of Aneuploidy and Polyploidy in Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma by Computer Video Image Analysis. Analytical & Quantitative Cytology & Histology 15(4): 265-273.
Grace J, McCarthy S, Stankovic R, Marsden W. (1993). Malignant Transformation of Osteoblastoma: Study using Image Analysis Microdensitometry. Journal of Clinical Pathology 46: 1024-1029.