1. Blood Pressure Research Group Cardiovascular & Renal Research Come & Join the Fun For more information see the Honours Booklet or even better, come & have a chat

2. Mums & Offspring: Programming of Adult Cardiovascular & Renal Disease Diet, Obesity & Diabetes: Consequences for the Heart, Kidney and Cardiovascular Health Altered Development : Fetal, Placental & Kidney structure and genetics Research Themes Whole kidney & single nephron function : What does control kidney function? Roles of nerves & reactive oxygen species. Heart: Controlling contractile function in healthy and diseased hearts Hypertension: What roles do nerves, salt or gender have in the development & maintenance of hypertension

3. Animal Models: Rabbits, Rats & Mice (including knockout strains) Research Methods Conscious Recordings: Blood Pressure (including radiotelemetry), Renal Function, Nerve activity, Anaesthetized Recordings: Single nephron and whole kidney function, renal oxygenation, nerve activity, Cardiac Contractility, Cardiac Function, Cardiac Metabolism Structural & Functional Analysis: Electron Microscopy (transmission & scanning), Light Microscopy, Ultrasound, Tissue Pathology, Fibrosis. Novel Technologies -Synchrotron 18 day rabbit fetus

4. Research People Dr Niwanthi Rajapakse (F259): Nitric Oxide, renal L- arginine uptake, Hypertension Assoc Prof Roger Evans (F274): Renal Oxygenation, Obesity, Sympathetic Nerves & Hypertension Dr James Pearson (F206): Cardiac contraction, Heart Failure, Diabetes, Synchrotron Dr Kate Denton (F266): Maternal Programming, pregnancy, sex differences, Renin Angiotensin system, Hypertension Dr Michelle Kett (F206): Nephron Endowment, High Salt & protein diets, Obesity, Hypertension & Kidney Disease Dr Russell Brown (F259): Single Nephron Function, Obesity, Renin Angiotensin system, Hypertension, reactive oxygen species

5. Cardiovascular Projects at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute Prahran (next to Alfred Hospital) Population Health Integrative Physiology

6. Population Health Mandy Thrift Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease in Rural India amanda.thrift@bakeridi.edu.au ph 85321636

7. Integrative Cardiovascular Physiology Can antioxidants be used to treat high blood pressure? Howe does stress cause high blood pressure? geoff.head@bakeridi.edu.au ph 85321332