Dr Alyce Martin

Senior Research Fellow

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Flinders Medical Centre Building
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Alyce Martin is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the College of Medicine and Public Health, and Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute at Flinders University. Her research portfolio is centred around characterising the functional biology of hormone producing enteroendocrine cells in the gut, with a particular interest in serotonin producing enterochromaffin (EC) cells. She is using her specialist skills in gut endocrinology to examine how EC cells sense the unique environment of the gut, including dietary nutrients and bacteria, and how this impacts fundamental physiological processes such as gut function, metabolism, fat storage and gut-brain signalling.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Medicine

Conferred December 2018, Flinders University

The role of enterochromaffin cells as sensors in the gastrointestinal lumen

B. Science with Honours (1st Class)

2012, Flinders University

B. Medical Science

2011, Major: Biochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, Flinders University

Honours, awards and grants

Grant funding:

  • ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellowship (2022-2024): $468,582
  • NHMRC Ideas Grant (CIB, 2022 - 2026): $1.1M
  • Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant (2020-2021): $25,000
  • Flinders University Impact Seed Funding for Early Career Researchers (2019): $10,000

Awards:

  • 2021 Millenium Science Spatial Pioneers Fellowship - 10X Genomics, Inc.
  • 2021 Early Career Alumni Award - Flinders University
  • 2021 Vice Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers - Flinders University
  • 2021 Early Career Researcher Award - College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
  • 2019 PhD/Postdoctoral Publication Award - College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
  • 2019 PhD/Postdoctoral Award - College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
  • 2017 Conference ECR Travel Award - ANZOS-OSSANZ-AOCO
  • 2015 Best Poster Award - Centre for Neuroscience, Flinders University
  • 2015 Kathleen V. Russell Prize for Neurobiology - Centre for Neuroscience, Flinders University
  • 2015 Best Student Poster Award - International Society for Chromaffin Cell Biology
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