School of Community Health
Dr Gayle Smythe
Position Lecturer, Biomedical Science
Chair, School Research Committee
Campus Albury-Wodonga, City
Phone (02) 6051 6854 (with voice mail)
Fax (02) 6051 6772
EMAIL GAYLE SMYTHE 
Gayle Smythe lectures in anatomy and physiology. She completed her PhD in cell biology at the University of Western Australia in 1998, then stayed on at UWA as a postdoctoral researcher working on muscle regeneration and gene therapies for muscular dystrophy. Throughout her years at UWA Gayle was a laboratory demonstrator in anatomy and histology, and spent some time as a volunteer worker in health promotions with the National Heart Foundation (WA).
From 2001–2003 she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in California, arriving at CSU in April 2003 to begin a 2–year NHMRC–funded postdoctoral fellowship. She took up her current lecturing position in March 2005, and is also continuing her research program. Her main research interests are the factors affecting skeletal muscle regeneration following injury, and the mechanisms by which skeletal muscle degenerates in muscular dystrophies.
Gayle has been a member of the Cell Transplant Society, American Society for Cell Biology, and is a long–term member of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology (Inc). She has ongoing research collaborations with researchers at Stanford University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia. Gayle also regularly reviews papers for international journals, and grant applications for the NHMRC, Duchenne Parent Project and Association Francaise contre les Myopathies.
Areas of Research Interest
Muscular dystrophy and cell biology.