Rate My Professor Mulyoto Pangestu

Dr. Mulyoto Pangestu is a lecturer in the Education Program in Reproduction and Development within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. He serves as the MCE Practical Coordinator and Laboratory Manager. Pangestu graduated with a degree in Animal Husbandry, majoring in Animal Reproduction, from Jenderal Soedirman University in Purwokerto, Indonesia. He completed a Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Science at the University of Melbourne, a Master's degree in Reproductive Sciences at Monash University focusing on in vitro production of bovine embryos and cryopreservation under supervisors Dr. Jill Shaw and Dr. Ian Lewis, and a PhD in 2002 at Monash University under Dr. Jill Shaw and Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan on dry storage of biological material. During his PhD, he worked as a research embryologist on human oocyte vitrification with Dr. Lilia Kuleshova from 1999 to 2000. His career includes serving as a lecturer in Reproductive Physiology at Jenderal Soedirman University, involvement in IVF at Permata Hati Infertility Clinic in Yogyakarta from 1995, and as a research fellow at the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development post-PhD. Since 2001, he has contributed to Monash's Master of Clinical Embryology program, starting as a lab demonstrator for micromanipulation, becoming Unit Coordinator in 2003, and Laboratory Manager and Practical Coordinator in 2005. He also runs short courses and workshops in-house and overseas.

Pangestu's research specializes in reproduction and development, including IVF embryo selection, fertility markers, gene delivery, endometriosis models, semen quality, and virtual screening of compounds in metabolic pathways related to reproductive technology in animals and humans, infertility, and assisted reproductive technologies. He collaborates with researchers from the University of Melbourne, Deakin University, Jenderal Soedirman University, University of Indonesia, Airlangga University, Gadjah Mada University, and Udayana University. As a consultant, he advises four IVF clinics in Indonesia, Cook Medical, and Vitrolife, and assists in setting up new IVF facilities. Awards include the Gold Award for the Asia Pacific Young Inventor Award in 2000 for evaporative drying sperm storage research, sponsored by Hewlett Packard and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Tropical Animal Science Journal from March 2021 to March 2024 and Advisor for the Indonesian Association for In Vitro Fertilization from 2021 to 2024. Key publications feature 'A-Kinase Anchor Protein 4 (proAKAP4): Protein Molecule–Based Fertility Marker of Indonesian Dairy Bull and Its Correlation With Frozen-Thawed Sperm Quality' (2025), 'Characterization and In-vitro Evaluation of Positively Charged Oligopeptide as Gene Delivery Vehicle Candidate on BHK-21 Cells' (2025), 'Induction of Fresh Chocolate Cyst Pulp into Endometriosis Mice Model' (2025), 'The Quality of Frozen Semen Sexing with Percoll Medium and Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) in Dorper Sheep and Saanen Goat' (2025), and 'Virtual screening of Dioscorea alata active compound in the Sphingolipid metabolic pathway in endometriosis-related genes' (2025). His Google Scholar profile shows 764 citations and an h-index of 14. He is accepting PhD students.