Dr Sarah Ribeiro Milograna Scealy
Rural Clinical School (Dubbo/Orange)
Sydney Medical School
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Dr Sarah Scealy is a biologist graduated from the University of Sao Paulo (USP, Brazil) in 2008. She obtained both her MSc (2010) and her PhD (2015) from the Comparative Biology Program at FFCLRP-USP. In 2016-2017, Dr Sarah worked in biomedical research at the Translational Research Institute (TRI-UQDI). Sarah was employed as a teaching-focused academic from 2017-2023 by Charles Sturt University (Dubbo). Since 2023, Dr Sarah teaches Pre-Clinical Sciences for the Year 1 students of the MD Program at the School of Rural Health (Dubbo) of The University of Sydney.
Dr Sarah Scealy has investigated cellular and physiological mechanisms involved in crustacean colour change during her undergraduate and MSc graduate studies at USP. During her PhD, she worked in the field Evolutionary Developmental Biology, using molecular biology to investigate how changes in developmental genes correlate with the evolution of limbs in mammals and reptilians. She has also used molecular genetics to explore gene networks associated with neurological functions and mental disorders in her research assistant work at UQDI. Sarah has also been engaged with Scholarship of Teaching and Learning since working as a teaching-focused academic.
Dr Sarah Scealy has been teaching the discipline of Human Physiology since 2010 in Brazil, then Charles Sturt University (Australia), and currently at The University of Sydney. Dr Sarah has also taught into the disciplines of Human Biosciences, Anatomy, Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Molecular Pathology for students of several health-allied courses at Charles Sturt University. At CSU, she has led teams of academic staff in the role of subject convenor. Sarah currently teaches basic science disciplines to MD Year 1 at the School of Rural Health in Dubbo.
She holds the Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching at Higher University from Charles Sturt University.
Young Investigator Award - 8th Meeting of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology. Santos, Brazil. 2015.
Subject Delivery Award - Charles Sturt University, 2019
Subject Delivery Award - Charles Sturt University, 2017
Publications
Book Chapters
- McNamara, J., Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S. (2015). Adaptive color change and the molecular endocrinology of pigment translocation in crustacean chromatophores. In Martin Thiel and Les Watling (Eds.), The Natural History of Crustacea, (pp. 68-102). United States: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Journals
- Bilton, N., Rae, J., Snikeris, P., Barry, K., Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Reeve, M., Roberts, C. (2018). Alternative Pedagogy for the Teaching of Anatomy and Physiology Beyond the Classroom. MedEdPublish, 7(4), 1-8. [More Information]
- Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Ribeiro, M., Bell, F., McNamara, J. (2016). Pigment Translocation in Caridean Shrimp Chromatophores: Receptor Type, Signal Transduction, Second Messengers, and Cross Talk Among Multiple Signaling Cascades. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 325A, 565-580. [More Information]
- Singarete, M., Grizante, M., Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Nery, M., Kin, K., Wagner, G., Kohlsdorf, T. (2015). Molecular evolution of HoxA13 and the multiple origins of limbless morphologies in amphibians and reptiles. Genetics and Molecular Biology, 38(3), 255-262. [More Information]
2018
- Bilton, N., Rae, J., Snikeris, P., Barry, K., Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Reeve, M., Roberts, C. (2018). Alternative Pedagogy for the Teaching of Anatomy and Physiology Beyond the Classroom. MedEdPublish, 7(4), 1-8. [More Information]
2016
- Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Ribeiro, M., Bell, F., McNamara, J. (2016). Pigment Translocation in Caridean Shrimp Chromatophores: Receptor Type, Signal Transduction, Second Messengers, and Cross Talk Among Multiple Signaling Cascades. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 325A, 565-580. [More Information]
2015
- McNamara, J., Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S. (2015). Adaptive color change and the molecular endocrinology of pigment translocation in crustacean chromatophores. In Martin Thiel and Les Watling (Eds.), The Natural History of Crustacea, (pp. 68-102). United States: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
- Singarete, M., Grizante, M., Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Nery, M., Kin, K., Wagner, G., Kohlsdorf, T. (2015). Molecular evolution of HoxA13 and the multiple origins of limbless morphologies in amphibians and reptiles. Genetics and Molecular Biology, 38(3), 255-262. [More Information]
2014
- Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Ribeiro, M., Baqui, M., McNamara, J. (2014). Pigment granule translocation in red ovarian chromatophores from the palaemonid shrimp Macrobrachium olfersi (Weigmann, 1836): functional roles for the cytoskeleton and its molecular motors. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, 178, 90-101. [More Information]
2012
- Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Bell, F., McNamara, J. (2012). Signaling Events During Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate-Regulated Pigment Aggregation in Freshwater Shrimp Chromatophores. Biological Bulletin, 223(2), 178-191. [More Information]
2010
- Ribeiro Milograna Scealy, S., Bell, F., McNamara, J. (2010). Signal transduction, plasma membrane calcium movements, and pigment translocation in freshwater shrimp chromatophores. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 313(9), 605-617. [More Information]