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| Name: |
Dr Graeme Pettet |
| Position: |
Associate Professor |
| Qualifications: |
BSc., DipEd., BMath(Hons), PhD |
| Organisational Area: |
School of Mathematical Sciences |
| Teaching Discipline: |
Applied Mathematics |
| Research Program: |
Applicable Mathematics and Advanced Computation |
| Phone: |
+61 7 3138 5238 |
| Fax: |
+61 7 3138 2310 |
| Email: |
g.pettet@qut.edu.au |
| Postal Address: |
School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001 |
Teaching Areas
- Mathematical biology
- Engineering mathematics
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Areas of Expertise
- modelling cell migration, cancer growth and wound healing
- modeling bone repair
- modelling tissue engineered constructs
- chemotactic and haptotactic travelling waves
- hybrid continuum/CA computational models
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Professional Associations
- Society of Mathematical Biology
- Australian Mathematical Society
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Current Grants
- ARC Discovery Grant (2007-2009): Human Skin Equivalent Constructs: Enhanced Culturing and Application of Laboratory-Grown Skin through Mathematical Modelling and in Silico Experimentation
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Selected Research Projects
- Mathematical and computational modelling of laboratory grown skin
- Mathematical and computational modelling of callus formation during bone fracture repair
- Chemotactically driven travelling waves
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Selected Publications
- G. J. Pettet, D. L. S. McElwain, and J. Norbury. Lotka-Volterra equations with chemotaxis: walls, barriers and travelling waves. Math. Med. Biol., 17 (4):395-413, 2000.
- G. J. Pettet, C. P. Please, M. J. Tindall, and D. L. S. McElwain. The migration of cells in multicell tumor spheroids. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 63 (2):231-257, 2001.
- K. A. Landman, G. J. Pettet, and D. F. Newgreen. Chemotactic cellular migration: Smooth and discontinuous travelling wave solutions. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 63 (5):1666-1681, 2003.
- M. C. Lewis, B. D. MacArthur, J. Malda, G. Pettet, and C. P. Please. Heterogeneous Proliferation Within Engineered Cartilaginus Tissue: the Role of Oxygen Tension. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 91(5):607-615, 2005.
- B. D. MacArthur, C. P. Please, and G. J. Pettet. A mathematical model of dynamic glioma-host interactions: receptor-mediated invasion and local proteolysis. Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 22:247-264, 2005.
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Current Postgraduate Students
| Name |
Project |
| Matthew Adams (PhD) |
Modelling of Human Skin Equivalent Constructs |
| Jacqueline Horne (Masters) |
Modelling callus formation during fracture repair |
| Brodie Lawson (PhD) |
Multiscale mathematical modelling of cell growth and re-organization in tissues |
| Dandan Sun (PhD) |
Ceramic-Polymer Composite Scaffolds for Bone-Cartilage Tissue Engineering |
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