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Michelle Bootcov

Michelle Bootcov

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

Email:?m.bootcov@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors:?Alison Bashford, Nicolas Rasmussen

Michelle Bootcov¡¯s PhD research is on viral hepatitis and its late 20th century role in the transformation of viral diagnostics, the blood industry and public health.

Michelle has a background in science and history. She completed a BSc (Hons) in molecular biology in 1986 (Wits University, South Africa). In her PhD in molecular immunology (St Vincent¡¯s Hospital and ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø, 1994) she discovered a cytokine, MIC-1, which is also known as GDF-15. The bioinformatics she used in that research diverted her to corporate technology for two decades before she returned to ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø to study the humanities, completing a BA (Hons) in History in 2018.
History of medical science
  • M Bootcov, ¡®Gregory Morgan, Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology¡¯, [Review], Health and History, 25:2 (2023) 115-117.
  • M Bootcov, ¡®¡¯, [Review], Journal of the History of Biology, (2023) 1-3.
  • Stephen Colagiuri and Michelle Bootcov [Eds.], Stephen, Roger Wilkinson, Catherine Storey, et al, . 10.1353/hah.2023.a904714.
  • Iva Glisic, Samantha Owen, Parisa Shams, Kelly Bailey, Michelle Bootcov et al., ¡®Editorial. The Female Frame: Biopolitics and Wellbeing in Australian and Global Perspective¡¯, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, 27 (2021) 175-176.
  • M Bootcov, ¡®Bruce Small, the Mr Big of women¡¯s cycling in interwar Australia¡¯, Sporting Traditions, 37:2 (2020) 115-136.
  • M Bootcov, ¡®¡¯, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 36:15-16 (2020) 1433-1456, DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2020.1713107.
  • M Bootcov ¡® ¡±¡¯, Journal of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia.
  • M Bootcov, ¡®¡¯, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, 8 (2019) 82-101.
  • MR Bootcov, AR Bauskin, SM Valenzuela, et al, ¡®MIC-1, a novel macrophage inhibitory cytokine, is a divergent member of the TGF-¦Â superfamily¡¯, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94:21 (1997) 11514-11519, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.21.11514.
  • SM Valenzuela, DK Martin, SB Por, JM Robbins, K Warton, MR Bootcov, et al, ¡®¡¯ Journal of Biological Chemistry, 272: 19 (1997) 12575-12582.
  • DK Martin, MR Bootcov, TJ Campbell, PW French, SN Breit, ¡®¡¯, The Journal of Membrane Biology, 147:3 (1995) 305-315.