SPEAKER: Prof Nick Martin_What Twins can tell us about the causes of Mental Health Problems

Professor Nick Martin

Nick Martin graduated with honours in Genetics from the University of Adelaide in 1972 and obtained his PhD in Genetics at the University of Birmingham.  In 1978 he returned to a Research Fellowship at the Australian National University where he founded the Australian Twin Registry. After 3 years in the US he returned in 1986 to the Queensland Institute of Medical Research where he heads the Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory and continues longitudinal studies with twins of a wide range of complex traits of medical and behavioural interest. His research over recent years has moved to genome wide association studies (GWAS) to locate genes influencing complex traits including dizygotic twinning.