Professor Thomas James Millar

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Contact Details

Biography

I studied my undergraduate degree at the Univeristy of Melbourne, and completed my PhD at The Flinders University of South Australia examining neuropeptides in the retina. I then did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Australian National Univeristy and moved to Sydney where I carried out electrophysiological research on the retina at the Sydney Eye Hospital. I then moved to the University of Western Sydney.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

My area of research interest is in the structure of the tear film. I have expertise in immunohsitochemistry, electron microscopy, electrophysiology, neuropharmacology, immunology, biochemistry and rheology. I teach biochemistry and immunology.

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Grants / Current Projects

ARC linkage grant - Investigation of the strucutre of the pre-ocular tear film.

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Selected Publications

Millar, T.J., Mudgil, P. & Khanal, S. (2009) “Meibomian Glands of the Lipid Layer” Chapter 48 in “Encyclopedia of the Eye” Elsivier In press

Herok, G.H., Mudgil, P. & Millar,T.J. (2009) The effect of Meibomian lipids and tear proteins on evaporation rate under controlled in vivo conditions. Curr. Eye Res. In press

Millar, T.J. Mudgil, P., Butovich, I. & Palaniappan C.K. (2009) Adsorption of human tear lipocalin to human Meibomian lipid films. Invest. Opthalmol. Vis. Sci. 50:140-151.

Mudgil, P. & Millar, T.J. (2008) Adsorption of apo- and holo-tear lipocalin to a bovine Meibomian lipid film. Exp. Eye Res. 86:622-628.

Butovich, I., Millar, T.J. & Ham B.M. (2008) Understanding and analysing Meibomian lipids – A review Curr. Eye Res. 33:405-420.

Herok, G.H. & Millar T.J. Martin, D.K., (2008) Role of chloride channels in regulating the volume of acinar cells of the rabbit superior lacrimal gland. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 49:5517-5525.

Mudgil, P., Dennis, G.R. & Millar, T.J. (2006) Interactions of poly(tert-butyl acrylate)-poly(styrene) diblock copolymers with lipids at the air-water interface. Langmuir 22:7672-7677.

Mudgil, P., Torres, M. & Millar, T.J. (2006) Adsorption of lysozyme to phospholipids and Meibomian monolayer films. Colloids and Surfaces B 48:128-137.

Tragoulias, S.T., Anderton, P.J., Dennis, G.R., Miano, F. & Millar, T.J. (2005) Surface pressure measurements of human tears and individual tear film components indicate that proteins are major contributors to the surface pressure. Cornea. 24:189-200.

Le Dain, A.C., Anderton, P.J., Martin, D.K. & Millar T.J. (1994) A tetraethylammonium insensitive inward rectifyer K+ channel in Muller cells of the turtle (Pseudemys scripta elegans) retina. J. Membrane Biology 141:239-245.

Vaegan & Millar, T.J. (1994) Effect of kainic acid (KA) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) on the pattern electroretinogram (PERG), the scotopic threshold response (STR), the oscillatory potentials (OPs) and the electroretinogram (ERG) in the urethane anaesthetized cat. Vision Res. 34:1111-1125.

Millar, T.J., Ishimoto, I., Chubb, I.W., Epstein, M.L., Johnson, C.D. & Morgan, I.G. (1987) Cholinergic amacrine cells of the chicken retina: a light and electron microscope immunohistochemical study. Neuroscience 21:725-743.

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