Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy - University of Zurich, Switzerland Graduate Certificate in Higher Education - Griffith University, Australia Bachelor of Science (Honours) - University of Zagreb, Croatia Dr Desa Welsh completed her Bachelor of Science (Physiology) at Faculty of Natural Sciences, Croatia and PhD at Zurich University, Switzerland, before moving to Australia in 2008. During her PhD and PostDoc in Switzerland, she has conducted extensive research, with a particular focus on renal physiology and signalling cascades in normal kidney function. During her senior research fellowship at Griffith University her research aria became expanded to bone physiology and parathyroid hormone signalling. As a university lecturer/researcher, she combines her own life experience with in-depth subject knowledge informed by her own studies and research.
Articles
Proliferation of acid-secretory cells in the kidney during adaptive remodelling of the collecting duct (with Desa Welsh-Bacic, Marta Nowik, Brigitte Kaissling, and Carsten A. Wagner), PLos ONE (2011)
The renal collecting duct adapts to changes in acid-base metabolism by remodelling and altering the...
Myocyte enhancer factor 2C: An osteoblast transcription factor identified by DMSO enhanced mineralization (with Alexandre S. Stephens, Sebastien R. Stephens, Carl Hobbs, Deitmar W. Hutmacher, Desa Bacic-Welsh, Maria Ann Woodruff, and Nigel A. Morrison), Journal of biological chemistry (2011)
Rapid mineralization of cultured osteoblasts could be a useful characteristic in stem cell-mediated therapies for...
Expression of the chemokine receptor CCR6 in human renal inflammation (with Desa Welsh-Bacic, Maja Lindenmeyer, Clemens D. Cohen, Dan Draganovici, Jana Mandelbaum, Ilka Edenhofer, Urs Ziegler, Heinz Regele, Rudolph P. Wüthrich, and Stephan Segerer), Nephrology dialysis transplantation (2011)
Background: Nodular inflammatory cell infiltrates with defined microarchitecture, i.e. tertiary lymphoid organs, develop in the...
Proximal tubular epithelial cells are generated by division of differentiated cells in the healthy kidney (with Alexander Vogetseder, Thomas Palan, Desa Bacic, Brigitte Kaissling, and Michel Le Hir), American journal of physiology - Cell physiology (2007)
We searched for evidence for a contribution of stem cells in growth of the proximal...
Unchanged expression of the sodium-dependent phosphate cotransporter NaPi-IIa despite diurnal changes in renal phosphate excretion (with Bernhard Bielesz, Desa Bacic, Katharina Honegger, Jürg Biber, Heini Murer, and Carsten .. Wagner), Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology (2006)
Renal phosphate excretion is subjected to circadian rhythmicity. The bulk of filtered inorganic phosphate (Pi)...