Dr Michael Venning |
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| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
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| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Health Sciences | |
| School/Unit: | School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences | |
| Campus: | City East Campus | |
| Office: | P5-48 | |
| Telephone: | +61 8 830 22639 | |
| Fax: | +61 8 830 22389 | |
| Email: | Michael_dot_Venning_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/Michael.Venning | |
International Venom & Toxin Database
Welcome to Australian Herpetology ONLINE
Entomology - Spiders and other Arachnids
Teaching interests
- Pharmacology and Physiology
I teach the following courses
| BIOL 2054 | Scientific Basis of Clinical Practice 1 |
| BIOL 2055 | Scientific Basis of Clinical Practice 2 |
| PHAR 3005 | Pharmacology 300 |
| PHAR 3006 | Pharmacology 301 |
| PHAR 2007 | Pharmacology PO 200 |
| PHAR 3012 | Pharmacology PO 301 |
| PHAR 2015 | Pharmacology and Pathophysiology 2 |
Professional associations
Astralaisian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologist (ASCEPT)
International Society on Toxinology (IST)
South Australian Venom Research Group
National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU)
Qualifications
PhD University of Adelaide
BSc (Hons) University of Adelaide
DipT(Sec) Adelaide Teachers College
Research interests
- Pharmacology of Australian snake & spider venoms
- Venom apparatus (venom glands)
- Snake venoms in the treatment of cancer
- Vascular pharmacology
Research publications
Volker J, Venning M G, Madaras F, Mirtschin P J & Woods AE, 2008, Regulation of venom production in embryonic Naja siamensis (Indochinese spitting cobra), Proceedings of the 8th IST Asia Pacific Meeting on Animal, Plant & Microbial Toxins, 2 – 6 December, Hanoi & Halong Bay, Vietnam.
Bottrall J L, Biven C D, Madaras F, Venning M & Mirtschin P, 2008, Protein digestion by Elapidae (Squamata) venoms, Proceedings of the 8th IST Asia Pacific Meeting on Animal, Plant & Microbial Toxins, 2 – 6 December, Hanoi & Halong Bay, Vietnam.
Marchant C, Madaras F, Mirtschin P & Venning M, 2007, Complement activators in Australian snake venoms, proceedings ASCEPT annual meeting.
Jay Nicholson, Peter Mirtschin, Frank Madaras, Michael Venning and Michael Kokkinn, 2006, Digestive properties of the venom of the Australian Coastal Taipan, Oxyuranus scutellatus (Peters, 1867), Toxicon, 48: 422 – 428.
Bateman, E.H, Venning, M.G, Mirtschin, P.J and Woods, A.E, 2006, Purification and characterisation of two apoptosis-inducing l-amino acid oxidases from the venoms of selected Australian elapids. IST 15th World Congress on Animal, Plant & Microbial Toxins, Glasgow, September, 2006.
E.H.Bateman, A.E. Woods, M.Venning, 2003, The effects of elapid snake venoms on the cellular biology of tumour-associated microvascular endothelial cells (TAMECs) in vitro, IST 14th World Congress on Animal, Plant & Microbial Toxins, Adelaide, September, 2003.
F Jamali , AE Woods , MG Venning , PJ Mirtschin , F Madaras , 2003, Degree of specialisation in venom-producing cells of Pseudonaja Textilis, IST 14th World Congress on Animal, Plant & Microbial Toxins, Adelaide, September, 2003.
Expertise for Media Contact
I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:
Discipline: Pharmacology
- Venoms & toxins- snake, spider, plants and microbes
- Drugs of dependence
- Therapeutic drugs
Community Service
| Organisation Name: | National Science Week State Organising Committee |
| Section: | SA |
| Level of involvement: | Member |
| Year from: | 1998 |
| Year to: | 2003 |
| Organisation Name: | National Tertiary Education Industry Union NTEU |
| Section: | SA Division UNISA Branch |
| Type of Organisation: | Professional organisation |
| Organisation URL: | http://www.nteu.org.au |
| Level of involvement: | SA Division Secretary & UniSA Branch Executive |
| Year from: | 1990 |
| Year to: | 2010 |
Research Degree Supervisor
Pharmacologist with interests in snake and spider venoms and vascular pharmacologyChange | Staff home page help