• Postition: Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow
• Qualifications: First Class Hons B.Sc., Univ of Nottingham, England; Ph.D., Aberdeen Univ., Scotland; D.Sc., Univ of Nottingham, England; Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK; Fellow, Australian Inst. Biology
• Location: Canberra- 44, Mirning Crescent, ARANDA, ACT 2614, Phone 61 2 6251 1345  Fax 61 2 6251 7621
  e-mail ian.falconer@adelaide.edu.au
• Research: The main focus of my present research is the toxicity and potential carcinogenicity of the cyanobacterial toxins cylindrospermopsin and microcystin in drinking water supplies. Currently the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment is funding a collaborative project with Dr Andrew Humpage of the Australian Water Quality Centre and Dr. Glen Shaw of the National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, to explore the mechanism of cylindrospermopsin toxicity. This includes investigations of genotoxicity, toxin metabolism and the formation of toxin adducts within cells. A component of this research is to identify any potential biomarkers of toxicity that can be used to monitor cylindrospermopsin exposure in human populations.
  Another of my research interests is the potential for endocrine disrupting substances in drinking water to affect human populations. This derives from my earlier research into endocrine function, particularly reproductive and thyroid endocrinology.

  My book on ‘Cyanobacterial Toxins in Drinking Water Supplies:
  Cylindrospermopsins and Microcystins’
  Has been published in January 2005 by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl, USA.

  I am Editor of the international scientific journal Environmental Toxicology, published by Wiley, USA.

• Community activity: Currently a member of the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council Community Advisory Committee, the Environmental Protection Technical Advisory Committee for the Australian Capital Territory and Vice-President of the Conservation Council for the South East Region and Canberra.

Recent publications listed with PubMed