Brian Setchell
Professor Emeritus.
Department of Anatomical Sciences,
University of Adelaide, 5005,
Australia.

brian.setchell@adelaide.edu.au

NATIONALITY: Australian

 

EDUCATION: East Bankstown Primary School, NSW, Australia    1939-1942

 

   Canterbury Boys High School, N.S.W, Australia to N.S.W.  Leaving Certificate, with A grade passes in English, French (with oral), Mathematics I, Mathematics II (with honours), Physics, Chemistry (with honours Class I). 1943-1947

 

   Sydney University, N.S.W., Australia B.V.Sc. with Honours Class II 1948-1952

 

   University of Cambridge, U.K.,  Ph.D. 1955-1957

 

   Member, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 1974

 

   Scientific Fellow, Zoological Society of London 1975

 

   Sc.D. University of Cambridge 1977

 

   Fellow, Institute of Biology 1978

 

 

AWARDS: Public Exhibition to the University of Sydney and the Council of Education Scholarship. 1947

 

   The Gurner Ebbsworth and a Martin McIllwrath Scholarship 1948

 

   Walter and Eliza Hall Scholar in Veterinary Science 1955-7

 

   Royal Society and Nuffield Foundation Commonwealth Bursary, to spend sabbatical year at A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, U.K. 1966-7

 

   Regnier de Graaf Prize for my contribution to reproductive biology and for my part in the translation of de Graaf's two works. The Netherlands 1973

 

   Goding Lecturer, Australian Society for Reproductive Biology, Adelaide. 1985

 

   Monesi Lecturer, IV European Workshop on Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology of the Testis, Capri. 1986

 

   Tapani Vanha-Perttula Memorial Lecture, 6th European Workshop on Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology of the Testis, Mariehamn, Aland Islands. 1990

 

   Honorary Life Member, Australian Society for 1994

   Reproductive Biology.

 

   American Society for Andrology Distinguished Andrologist Award for 1997, Baltimore USA, 1997

 

   Parkes Lecturer for Journal of Reproduction and Fertility at joint meeting of Society for the Study of Fertility, British Androlog Society and British Fertility Society, York. 1997

 

POSITIONS HELD: Veterinary Research Officer and then Special Veterinary Research Officer at the N.S.W., Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Research Station, Glenfield, N.S.W., and from 1959-1962, Officer-in-Charge of the Nutritional Research Laboratory 1952-1962

 

   Senior Research Scientist and then Principal Research Scientist, C.S.I.R.O., Division of Animal Physiology, Prospect, N.S.W. 1962-1969

 

   Principal Scientific Officer and then Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Biochemistry, Agricultural Research Council, Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge 1969-1978

 

   Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Physiology, Agricultural Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge 1978-1982

 

   College Lecturer in Physiology, Magdalene College, Cambridge 1978-1982

 

   University of Adelaide: Professor of Animal Sciences, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Glen Osmond, Australia. 1982-1996

   Head of Department of Animal Sciences. 1982-1991.

   Professor Emeritus 1997

   Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Anatomical Sciences 1999-present

 

   Visiting Professor,  Institute of Histology and General Embryology, University of Rome 'La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. March-May 1986.

   Feb-March 2002.

   Sept-Oct 2003.

 

   French Government Bourse de Sejour Scientifique de Haut Niveau, Nouzilly, France. July to Dec., 1987

 

   Swedish Medical Research Council Visiting Scientist Fellowship, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. May to Sept.,1991.

 

   Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge. 1995

 

   Nobel Fellowship, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Oct 1997 to Dec 1998

 

   STINT Fellow, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Jan – Dec 2000

 

   Member, Council of Management, Bibliography of Reproduction 1971-1977

 

   Member, Council of Management, Journal of Reproduction & Fertility, 1977-1982

 

   Member, Editorial Board, Molecular & Cellular Endocrinology, 1983-1988.

 

   Member, Editorial Board, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, CSIRO, Melbourne. 1989-1994

   Chairman 1991-1994

 

   Member, Editorial Board,  Reproduction, Nutrition, Development, Elsevier, Paris 1989-2001

 

   External examiner, University of Newcastle, Department of Biological Sciences 1982-1985

 

   Member & Chairman, Committee of Reference Rural Credits Development Fund, Reserve Bank of Australia 1983-1985

 

   External Reviewer, Flinders Medical Research Foundation.                                              1989-1994

MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES:

   Biochemical Society 1956-

   Physiological Society 1968-

   Society for Endocrinology 1971-

   Society for the Study of Fertility 1964-

         Treasurer 1978-82

          Honorary member 2004

   Australian Society for Reproductive Biology,

         Foundation Member 1968

         Chairman 1987-89

         Honorary Member 1994.

   Australian Mammal Society 1968-

   British Andrology Society,

         Foundation Member 1979

   Endocrine Society of Australia 1983-.

   Australian and N. Z. Microcirculation Society 1984-.

   American Society for Andrology 1998-.

 

FORMER MEMBER

   Australian Biochemical Society 1962-1969

   Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Soc. 1962-1969

     Australian Veterinary Assoc. -Student member 1948-1952

                                                   -Ordinary member 1952-1969

     1984-1990

 

LANGUAGES: Fluent reading knowledge of French, working reading knowledge of Latin, German and Italian

 

HOBBIES: Music, playing viola, bassoon and contrabassoon in Cambridge Philharmonic Society Orchestra and Burnside Symphony Orchestra, and viola, double bass and bassoon in chamber music.

 

   Carpentry and household repairs and maintenance

 

   History, general and medical.

 

PUBLICATIONS: Books:  The Mammalian Testis (1978) Elek Books London & Cornell University Press Ithaca   450 p.

 

           Male Reproduction (1984) Vol. 17 of the Benchmark Papers in Human Physiology Series, Series Editor, L.L. Langley, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.

 

   71 Invited Review articles or Chapters in Textbooks on the Testis and Epididymis.

 

   140 Original full scientific papers and 205 abstracts of papers presented to Scientific societies on the testis and epididymis

 

   46 papers and 9 abstracts on blood flow and metabolism in other organs and metabolic diseases of sheep

 

   6 papers on analytical.methods,

  

   An annotated translation from Latin of Regnier de Graaf's 2 books on The Organs of Reproduction, a translation from Italian of Sertoli's original description of the Sertoli cell, an article on de Graaf, one on Sertoli, Spallanzani and Aubry, a biographical forward on Enrico Sertoli 1842-1910 for a book on the Sertoli Cell, and 2 other historical articles.

 

EXAMINER: 45 PhD theses for Australian (Western Australia, New England, New South Wales, Melbourne, Monash, Queensland, Griffiths, Newcastle and Deakin Universities), UK (Cambridge, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Wales, Liverpool, Edinburgh, bath and Reading), Sweden (Uppsala), Italy (Rome), Israel (Weizmann), Canada (Western Ontario), India (Delhi), New Zealand (Auckland and Massey) and South Africa (Western Cape) Universities. 2 Docteur es Sciences theses for Francois Rabelais (Tours) and Paris VII Universities. 1 ScD thesis for Birmingham University. 2 DVSc theses for Melbourne University. 6 MSc these for Manchester, Nairobi, New England, Melbourne and Sydney Universities and for the National Council for Academic Awards, UK.

 

SUPERVISOR: 20 PhD candidates for Cambridge (3) and Adelaide (15) Universities and for the National Council for Academic Awards, UK (2). 2 MSc candidates for the University of Adelaide.