Dr Catharine Jawahar

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2016 - ongoing	Lecturer	The University of Adelaide
  2011 - 2016	Research Officer/Postgraduate Coordinator	University of Adelaide

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  Hindi	Can read, write, speak and understand spoken
  Tamil	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2005 - 2010	University of Melbourne	Australia	PhD
  1999 - 2004	Bharathidasan University	India	MSc, Life Sciences

• Research Interests

  Child and Adolescent Health Early Origins of Health Neuroscience, Behaviour and Brain Health Animal Behaviour Epigenetics Gene Expression Genetics Immunogenetics Neurogenetics Neurosciences Psychiatry

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2024	Clark, S. R., Wilton, L. R., Dawson, J. L., Chiew, K., Jawahar, M. C., Toben, C., . . . Saleem, M. (2024). Dotting the I's and crossing the T's: A South Australian perspective on variability in troponin thresholds for myocarditis risk in clozapine treatment. Schizophrenia Research, 268, 114-117. DOI Scopus2 Europe PMC1
  2024	Ciobanu, L. G., Baryshnikova, N. V., Jawahar, M. C., Toben, C. G., Sokolenko, E., Arnet, V. K., . . . Clark, S. R. (2024). Pre-COVID life expectancy, mortality, and burden of diseases for adults 70 years and older in Australia: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study. The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 47, 101092-1-101092-14. DOI
  2022	Ciobanu, L. G., Stankov, L., Schubert, K. O., Amare, A. T., Jawahar, M. C., Lawrence-Wood, E., . . . Aidman, E. (2022). General intelligence and executive functioning are overlapping but separable at genetic and molecular pathway levels: An analytical review of existing GWAS findings. PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0272368. DOI Scopus2 Europe PMC1
  2021	Singhal, G., Morgan, J., Corrigan, F., Toben, C., Jawahar, M. C., Jaehne, E. J., . . . Baune, B. T. (2021). Short-term environmental enrichment is a stronger modulator of brain glial cells and cervical lymph node T cell subtypes than exercise or combined exercise and enrichment. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, 41(3), 469-486. DOI Scopus8 WoS6 Europe PMC5
  2021	Ahluwalia, T. S., Prins, B. P., Abdollahi, M., Armstrong, N. J., Aslibekyan, S., Bain, L., . . . Alizadeh, B. Z. (2021). Genome-Wide Association Study of Circulating Interleukin 6 Levels Identifies Novel Loci.. Hum Mol Genet, 30(5), 393-409. DOI Scopus28 WoS17 Europe PMC28
  2021	Singhal, G., Jawahar, M. C., Morgan, J., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E. J., Toben, C., . . . Baune, B. T. (2021). TNF signaling via TNF receptors does not mediate the effects of short-term exercise on cognition, anxiety and depressive-like behaviors in middle-aged mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 408, 113269-1-113269-9. DOI
  2020	Singhal, G., Morgan, J., Jawahar, M. C., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E. J., Toben, C., . . . Baune, B. T. (2020). Duration of environmental enrichment determines astrocyte number and cervical lymph node T lymphocyte proportions but not the microglial number in middle-aged C57BL/6 mice. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 14, 57-1-57-12. DOI Scopus10 WoS9 Europe PMC5
  2020	Singhal, G., Morgan, J., Jawahar, M. C., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E. J., Toben, C., . . . Baune, B. T. (2020). Effects of aging on the motor, cognitive and affective behaviors, neuroimmune responses and hippocampal gene expression. Behavioural Brain Research, 383(6), 112501-1-112501-16. DOI Scopus21 WoS15 Europe PMC13
  2019	Morgan, J. A., Singhal, G., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E. J., Jawahar, M. C., Breen, J., . . . Baune, B. T. (2019). Ceasing exercise induces depression-like, anxiety-like, and impaired cognitive-like behaviours and altered hippocampal gene expression. Brain Research Bulletin, 148, 118-130. DOI Scopus18 WoS17 Europe PMC12
  2019	Singhal, G., Morgan, J., Jawahar, M. C., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E. J., Toben, C., . . . Baune, B. T. (2019). The effects of short-term and long-term environmental enrichment on locomotion, mood-like behavior, cognition and hippocampal gene expression. Behavioural Brain Research, 368, 111917-1-111917-10. DOI Scopus25 WoS18 Europe PMC14
  2019	Singhal, G., Morgan, J., Jawahar, M. C., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E. J., Toben, C., . . . Baune, B. T. (2019). Short-term environmental enrichment, and not physical exercise, alleviate cognitive decline and anxiety from middle age onwards without affecting hippocampal gene expression. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 19(5), 1143-1169. DOI Scopus16 WoS14 Europe PMC12
  2018	Culverhouse, R., Saccone, N., Horton, A., Ma, Y., Anstey, K., Banaschewski, T., . . . Bierut, L. (2018). Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression. Molecular psychiatry, 23(1), 133-142. DOI Scopus241 WoS194 Europe PMC119
  2018	Morgan, J., Singhal, G., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E., Jawahar, M., & Baune, B. (2018). The effects of aerobic exercise on depression-like, anxiety-like, and cognition-like behaviours over the healthy adult lifespan of C57BL/6 mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 337, 193-203. DOI Scopus65 WoS50 Europe PMC30
  2018	Morgan, J., Singhal, G., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E., Jawahar, M., & Baune, B. (2018). Exercise related anxiety-like behaviours are mediated by TNF receptor signaling, but not depression-like behaviours. Brain Research, 1695, 10-17. DOI Scopus10 WoS10 Europe PMC5
  2018	Morgan, J., Singhal, G., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E., Jawahar, M., & Baune, B. (2018). TNF signalling via the TNF receptors mediates the effects of exercise on cognition-like behaviours. Behavioural Brain Research, 353, 74-82. DOI Scopus16 WoS13 Europe PMC8
  2017	Wong, M., Arcos-Burgos, M., Liu, S., Vélez, J., Yu, C., Baune, B., . . . Licinio, J. (2017). The PHF21B gene is associated with major depression and modulates the stress response. Molecular Psychiatry, 22(7), 1015-1025. DOI Scopus55 WoS41 Europe PMC29
  2016	Grosse, L., Ambrée, O., Jörgens, S., Jawahar, M., Singhal, G., Stacey, D., . . . Baune, B. (2016). Cytokine levels in major depression are related to childhood trauma but not to recent stressors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 73, 24-31. DOI Scopus87 WoS70 Europe PMC34
  2015	Camara, M., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E., Jawahar, M., Anscomb, H., & Baune, B. (2015). Effects of centrally administered etanercept on behavior, microglia, and astrocytes in mice following a peripheral immune challenge. Neuropsychopharmacology, 40(2), 502-512. DOI Scopus68 WoS60 Europe PMC39
  2015	Camara, M., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E., Jawahar, M., Anscomb, H., & Baune, B. (2015). Tumor necrosis factor alpha and its receptors in behaviour and neurobiology of adult mice, in the absence of an immune challenge. Behavioural Brain Research, 290, 51-60. DOI Scopus16 WoS15 Europe PMC8
  2015	Jaehne, E., Corrigan, F., Toben, C., Jawahar, M., & Baune, B. (2015). The effect of the antipsychotic drug quetiapine and its metabolite norquetiapine on acute inflammation, memory and anhedonia. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 135, 136-144. DOI Scopus35 WoS29 Europe PMC25
  2015	Jawahar, M., Murgatroyd, C., Harrison, E., & Baune, B. (2015). Epigenetic alterations following early postnatal stress: a review on novel aetiological mechanisms of common psychiatric disorders. Clinical Epigenetics, 7(1), 122-1-122-13. DOI Scopus112 WoS93 Europe PMC61
  2014	Harrison, E., Jaehne, E., Jawahar, M., Corrigan, F., & Baune, B. (2014). Maternal separation modifies behavioural and neuroendocrine responses to stress in CCR7 deficient mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 263, 169-175. DOI Scopus23 WoS21 Europe PMC15
  2013	Camara, M., Corrigan, F., Jaehne, E., Jawahar, M., Anscomb, H., Koerner, H., & Baune, B. (2013). TNF-α and its receptors modulate complex behaviours and neurotrophins in transgenic mice. PsychoNeuroendocrinology, 38(12), 3102-3114. DOI Scopus67 WoS57 Europe PMC44
  2012	Baune, B., Camara, M., Eyre, H., Jawahar, M., Anscomb, H., & Korner, H. (2012). Tumour necrosis factor - alpha mediated mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction. Translational Neuroscience, 3(3), 263-277. DOI Scopus43 WoS36
  2011	Jawahar, M., Sari, C., Wilson, Y., Lawrence, A., Brodnicki, T., & Murphy, M. (2011). Audiogenic seizure proneness requires the contribution of two susceptibility loci in mice. Neurogenetics, 12(3), 253-257. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC3
  2011	Murphy, M., Wilson, Y., Lawrence, A., Brodnicki, T., & Jawahar, M. (2011). Analysis of the Genetics of Behaviour Using Animal Models. International Journal of Psychology Research, 6(1-2), 41-74.
  2008	Jawahar, M., Brodnicki, T., Quirk, F., Wilson, Y., & Murphy, M. (2008). Behavioural analysis of congenic mouse strains confirms stress-responsive loci on chromosomes 1 and 12. Behavior Genetics, 38(4), 407-416. DOI Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC5

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2019	Jawahar, M. C., Toben, C. G., & Baune, B. T. (2019). Gene-environment interactions and epigenetic mechanisms in depression. In J. L. de Quevedo, A. F. Carvalho, & C. A. Zarate (Eds.), Neurobiology of Depression: Road to Novel Therapeutics (pp. 17-25). Londone, United Kingdom: Academic Press. DOI Scopus2
  2018	Jawahar, M. C., & Baune, B. T. (2018). Biological Embedding of Childhood Maltreatment in Adult Depression. In B. T. Baune (Ed.), Inflammation and Immunity in Depression Basic Science and Clinical Applications (pp. 301-323). United Kingdom: Academic Press. DOI
  2009	Jawahar, M., Wilson, Y., Lawrence, A., Brodnicki, T., & Murphy, M. (2009). Approaches to the Study of the Genetics of Behavioural Variation Using Mice and Rats. In L. Rechi (Ed.), Animal Genetics (pp. 55-79). Nova Science Pub Incorporated. Scopus1

• Conference Items

  Year	Citation
  2020	Ahluwalia, T. S., Armstrong, N. J., Aslibekyan, S., Beekman, M., Cheng, Y., deGeus, E., . . . Alizadeh, B. Z. (2020). Genome wide association study of circulating interleukin 6 levels identifies novel loci. Poster session presented at the meeting of EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS. SPRINGERNATURE.
  2015	Jawahar, M. C., Toben, C., Izzo, J., Heriot, N., Harrison, E., Murgatroyd, C., & Baune, B. T. (2015). The two-hit stress model:effect of early life stress and later life stressors on adult psychiatric disorders. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstract. Brisbane.
  2015	Jawahar, M. C., Toben, C., Izzo, J., Heriot, N., Harrison, E., Murgatroyd, C., & Baune, B. T. (2015). The two-hit stress model: effect of early life stress and later life stressors on adult psychiatric disorders. Poster session presented at the meeting of Society for Mental Health Research (SMHR) 2015. Brisbane.

Lecturer: Fundamentals of Biological Psychiatry (PSYCHIAT3200): 2014-2015

Course coordinator: Fundamentals of Biological Psychiatry (PSYCHIAT3200): 2016-present

Module Co-Coordinator: Addiction and Mental Health Module; Reflect, Research and Resolve: 2018-present

Guest lecturer: Biological and Psychosocial Factors in Addiction: 2018-present

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2015 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	The Effects of Long-Term Exercise and Stopping Long-Term Exercise on Behaviours and Neurobiology	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Julie A Morgan
  2015 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	The Differential Effects of Short-Term Physical Exercise, Environmental Enrichment and their Combination, and Short-and-Long-Term Environmental Enrichment on Behavior and Associated Molecular Changes in the Brain of C57BL/6 Mice	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Gaurav Singhal

• Other Supervision Activities

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Location	Program	Supervision Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2024 - 2024	Principal Supervisor	Multifactorial model of cognition improves polygenic scores for cognitive function in adolescents.	Discipline of Psychiatry, The University of Adelaide	-	Honours	Full Time	Breanna Terrington

• Position: Lecturer
• Phone: 83137394
• Email: catharine.jawahar@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences, floor 6
• Org Unit: Medical Specialties