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Professor Rosanne Taylor

Associate Professor Rosanne Taylor


Dean - Faculty of Veterinary Science
University of Sydney
J D Stewart Building B01
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 6936
Fax: +61 2 9660 1548
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Qualifications

BVSc (Hons 1), DipVetClinStud, GradCertEducStud (Higher Education), PhD

Teaching Areas

  • Cell Biology.
  • Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology.

Administration

  • Chair, Faculty Executive.
  • Senior Executive Group, Finance and Infrastructure Committee.
  • Division of Natural Sciences Board.
  • Councillor, Centre for Veterinary Education, Veterinary Science Foundation.
  • Councillor, Poultry Research Foundation, Dairy Research Foundation.
  • University assessment working group.

Contribution to the Profession and the Community

  • American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) Governance Committee.
  • Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (JVME) Board.
  • Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) Education.
  • Veterinary Schools Accreditation Advisory Committee (VSAAC) accreditation team member.
  • Committee of Veterinary Deans, Australia and NZ.

Career History

After graduating from the University of Sydney in 1982 with a BVSc (Hons 1), Rosanne completed a large animal internship (Diploma of Veterinary Clinical Studies) and a PhD on the treatment of inherited neurological disease, canine fucosidosis. She implemented animal research legislation as Veterinary Officer and Branch Manager at the NSW Animal Welfare Branch of the NSW Government. During a Kleberg postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania she demonstrated the potential of neural stem cells and gene therapy in arresting progressive brain disease.

In 1994, Rosanne returned to The University of Sydney as an associate lecturer in neuroscience, physiology, animal biotechnology and animal science. In 2001, she completed the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and as Chair of the Faculty for Teaching and Learning Committee, implemented new curriculum.

Awards include:

  • Australian College of Veterinary Sciences Ian Clunies Ross Award in 1999;
  • the Faculty's Pfizer Teaching Award and Grace Mary Mitchell Award in 2001;
  • the Vice Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2002;
  • a national finalist in Australian University Teaching Awards in 2002 and 2003;
  • e-learning team Vice Chancellors Award winner in 2009.


Current research directions with her students include the pathogenesis and treatment of inherited brain damage, genetic studies of canine oncology and atopy and ways to improve veterinary education.

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

Hopwood JJ, Crawley A, Taylor RM. Spontaneous and engineered mammalian storage disease models, In: Lysosomal disorders of the brain.11:257: eds. Platt FM, Walkley SU. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2004

Taylor, R M, Canfield, P J 2007, Learning to be a Scholarly Teaching Faculty: Cultural Change through Shared Leadership, Transforming a university: the scholarship of teaching and learning in practice, Sydney University Press, NSW, Australia, 233-247

Journal articles

Kondagari G.S., Ramanathan P. & Taylor R.M. (2011) Canine fucosidosis: A neuroprogressive disorder. Neurodegenerative Diseases. 8(4):240-251 (DOI: 10.1159/000322541).

Kondagari G.S., Yang J. & Taylor R.M. (2011) Investigation of cerebrocortical and cerebellar pathology in canine fucosidosis and comparison to aged brain. Neurobiology of Disease 41:605-13.

Sherman Jr, Cook RW, McCowan C, Fletcher Jl, Taylor R.M. and Wilton AN, (2011). Mapping cerebellar abiotrophy in Australian Kelpies, Animal Genetics. 42:675-678.

Croitoru-Lamoury, J., Lamoury, F.M.J., Caristo, M. Suzuki, K., Walker, D., Takikawa, O., Taylor R., and Brew, B.J. (2011) Interferon-gamma regulates the proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells via activation of indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase (IDO) PLOS 6:1-13 10.1371/journal.pone.0014698.

Kondagari GS, King BM, Thomson PC, Williamson P, Clements PR, Fuller M, Hemsley KM, Hopwood JJ, Taylor R.M. (2011) Treatment of canine fucosidosis by intracisternal enzyme infusion. Experimental Neurology, 230(2):218-26.

Fletcher JL, Kondagari GS, Wright AL, Thomson PC, Williamson P, Taylor RM (2011). Myelin genes are downregulated in canine fucosidosis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1812(11):1418-1426.

Matthew, S.M., Ellis, R.A, Taylor, RM (2011) New graduates’ conceptions of and approaches to veterinary professional practice, and relationships to achievement during an undergraduate veterinary internship programme Advances in Health Science Education 16: 167-182.

Tran J., Pupovac A., Wiley J., Byrne S., Taylor R.M., & Sluyter R. (2010) Murine epidermal Langerhans cells and keratinocytes express functional P2X7 receptor. Experimental Dermatology, 19, E151-E175.

Fletcher J.L., Horan D., Williamson P. & Taylor R.M. (2010) Clinical signs and neuropathologic abnormalities in working Australian Kelpies with globoid cell leukodystrophy (Krabbe disease). Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 237, 682-688.

Matthew S., Ellis R. & Taylor R.M. (2010) Conceptions of and approaches to clinic-based learning, and their relationships to achievement, during a final year veterinary internship programme. Higher Education Research and Development, 29, 389-404.

Fletcher, J L, Williamson, P, Taylor, R M. 2009, Krabbe disease in the Australian Working Kelpie, Orbit: University of Sydney Undergraduate Research Journal, 1(1), 57-74.

Stevenson, R O, Taylor, R M, Wiley, J S, Sluyter, R 2009, The P2X(7) receptor mediates the uptake of organic cations in canine erythrocytes and mononuclear leukocytes: comparison to equivalent human cell types, Purinergic Signalling, 5(3), 385-394.

Taylor, R M. 2009, Defining, constructing and assessing learning outcomes, O I E Revue Scientifique et Technique, 28(2), 779-788.

Forsyth, H E, Laxton, R, Moran, C, van der Werf, J, Banks, R, Taylor, R M 2008, Postgraduate coursework in Australia: issues emerging from university and industry collaboration, Higher Education: the international journal of higher education and educational planning, DOI 10.1007/s10734-008-9167-8 (online), 1-15.

Ramanathan, P, Martin, ICA, Gardiner-Garden, M, Thomson, P C, Taylor, R M, Ormandy, C J, Moran, C, Williamson, P 2008, Transcriptome analysis identifies pathways associated with enhanced maternal performance in QSi5 mice, B M C Genomics, 9, 197: 1 - 13-

Ramanathan, P, Martin, ICA, Thomson, P C, Taylor, R M, Moran, C, Williamson, P 2007, Genomewide Analysis of Secretory Activation in Mouse Models, Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia, 12(4), 305-314

Sluyter, R, Shemon, AN, Hughes, W, Stevenson, R O, Georgiou, J, Eslick, G D, Taylor, R M, Wiley, J S 2007, Canine erythrocytes express the P2X7 receptor: greatly increased function compared to human erythrocytes, American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 293(5), R2090-R2098April 2011 Veterinary Science: Supplementary Performance Report (Page 155 of 183)

Zhao, G, McCarthy, N, Sheehy, P A, Taylor, R M 2007, Comparison of the Behavior of Neural Stem Cells in the Brain of Normal and twitcher Mice after Neonatal Transplantation, Stem Cells and Development, 16(3), 429-437

Croitoru-Lamoury, J, Williams, K, Lamoury, F, Veas, L, Ajami, B, Taylor, R M, Brew, B 2006, Neural transplantation of human MSC and NT2 cells in the twitcher mouse model, Cytotherapy, 8(5), 445-458

Taylor, R M, Lee, J, Palacino, J, Bower, K, Li, J, Vanier, M, Wenger, D, Sidman, R, Snyder, E 2006, Intrinsic resistance of neural stem cells to toxic metabolites may make them well suited for cell non-autonomous disorders: evidence from a mouse model of Krabbe leukodystrophy, Journal of Neurochemistry, 97, 1585-1599

Canfield PR, Taylor RM. Teaching and Learning at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney. Journal Veterinary Medical Education. 32:349-358. 2005

Ellis, R, Marcus, G R, Taylor, R M 2005, Learning through inquiry: student difficulties with online course-based material, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 21, 239-252

Conference Proceedings

Collier, M, Jobbins, S E, Taylor, R M. 2009, Student perceptions of graduate attributes in the Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience, UniServe Science, The University of Sydney Conference 2009, Uniserve Science, Australia, 5-11

Taylor, R M, Collier, M 2008, Writing critically about science: a curriculum structure for animal scientists, UniServe Science Symposium 2008, Uniserve Science, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 207-213

Sheehy, P A, Marcus, G R, Costa, F F, Taylor, R M 2006, Implementing elearning across a faculty- factors that encourage uptake, 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education ASCILITE 2006, Sydney University Press, Australia, 757-768

Taylor RM. Changing assessment practices. Planning and evaluating the impact of innovations on students experiences of assessment. Uniserve Science Education Conference, University of Sydney (p126-132). science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2006/taylor.pdf

Marcus, G R, Taylor, R M, Ellis, R 2004, Implications For The Design Of Online Case-Based Learning Activities Based On The Student Blended Learning Experience, ASCILITE 2004 - Beyond the Comfort Zone: 21st ASCILITE Conference, ASCILITE, Online, 577-586