Professor North has served on the NHMRC Discipline panels (both Genetics and neuroscience) and the Career Development Award Panel in 2005. She has given 47 invited presentations in the past six years – 37 of these at International Conferences, and has acted as session convenor and chairman at two Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory conferences, the International Neuromuscular Congress (1998, 20), the World Muscle Society (2000, 2002, 2004), the International NF Consortium and at annual meetings of the Australian Association of Neurologists and the Human Genetics Society of Australasia. She is on the Editorial Board of six international neurology and neuromuscular journals.
Professor North was a founding member of the ENMC International Consortium on Nemaline myopathy and was elected to the Executive Board of the World Muscle Society (2001-2004). She has supervised 11 PhD students and 4 Masters students to completion, and the majority of these students have won prizes for best oral presentation or Young Investigator Awards at leading national and international conferences. was cited by Discovery Magazine in January 2004 as one of the “Top 100 Science Stories of 2003” – ranking number 76. I understand that the plants collected in Mr Nicollets north western. ACTN 3 genotype is associated with human elite athletic performance. Botany Libraries, Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University Herbaria. In the past two years, she has written 12 invited chapters on congenital myopathies and muscular dystrophies in U.S. based texts – including Myology, the two volume “bible” of muscle disease. Her team’s research into the role of ACTN 3 gene, dubbed the “speed gene,” in human skeletal muscle (Yang et al. Since 2000, she has published 2 papers in American Journal of Human Genetics, 6 in Human Molecular Genetics, 3 in Nature Genetics, 13 in Neuromuscular Disorders, 8 in Neurology, 2 in Journal of Medical Genetics and 7 in Annals of Neurology – the major journals in her field. Professor North has published over 120 refereed journal articles, 10 invited reviews, 18 book chapters and one single author book.
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She currently employs 14 full time clinical and laboratory research staff and supervises 9 PhD students. She received the Sunderland Award from the Australian Neuroscience Society in 2000 for excellence in neuroscience research and has recently been named the Sutherland Lecturer for 2008 by the Human Genetics Society of Australasia in recognition of her research in the area of human genetics. In 2004 she was appointed Douglas Burrows Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health. In 1997, she was appointed as Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000 and to Professor in 2002.