Rate My Professor Bowen Dempsey

Dempsey's research topics encompass neural control of ingestion, airway protection, autonomic and respiratory effects, neonatal apneas, brainstem synchronization, medullary centres for lapping, and respiratory modulation of blood pressure. He has 13 articles from 2013 to 2025, including "Excessive respiratory modulation of blood pressure triggers hypertension" (Cell Metabolism, 2017, 61 Scopus citations), "A medullary centre for lapping in mice" (Nature Communications, 2021, 25 citations), "A novel reticular node in the brainstem synchronizes neonatal mouse crying with breathing" (Neuron, 2022, 27 citations), "Descending pathways from the superior colliculus mediating autonomic and respiratory effects associated with orienting behaviour" (Journal of Physiology, 2022, 9 citations), and "Mafa-dependent GABAergic activity promotes mouse neonatal apneas" (Nature Communications, 2022, 1 citation). Dempsey received the Australian Neuroscience Society Paxinos-Watson Prize (shared, 2018), ECR Enabling Scheme Award (2023), and Macquarie Medical School HDR Supervisor of the Year (2023). In 2024, he was awarded a $1,186,360 NHMRC Ideas Grant. He is unit convenor for MHHS8000 Research Foundations and teaching staff for MEDI3300 Neuroscience.