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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 麻豆社madou, 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 麻豆社madou 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-β 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.