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Dr. Shelley Forrest is the group leader at the Dementia Research Centre and is a member of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Macquarie University. She completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Sydney in 2013 and has since pursued postdoctoral training in Pathology at the same university. Dr. Forrest possesses deep knowledge of cellular abnormalities characteristic of frontotemporal dementia and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases. She has established both national and international collaborations, participating in consortia focused on validating novel age-related tauopathy. In 2020, she became the group leader for the Neuropathology program at the Dementia Research Centre, where she combines studies of human neurodegenerative diseases with transgenic models of dementia. Her research interests include exploring the disease mechanisms underlying frontotemporal dementia and investigating the role of protein abnormalities in affected cell types, aiming to understand selective regional cellular vulnerability related to these disorders. She utilizes various methodologies including histology, immunohistochemistry, and quantitative neuropathology, working with well-characterized human brain tissue samples alongside transgenic animal models of dementia.
Dementia Research Centre, Macquarie University • Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Leading the Neuropathology program, combining studies of human neurodegenerative diseases with transgenic models.
University of Sydney • Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lectured in the field of Neuroscience.
Applied to Department of Business (MBA Program).