Published research articles.

New Co-Author paper out now in SciTransMed: Inhibition of activin signaling in lung adenocarcinoma increases the therapeutic index of platinum chemotherapy

Very exciting day to see this amazing work by the lab of Prof.Neil Watkins published in the prestigious Science Translational Medicine Journal. A huge amount of work for a lot of very talented people over many many years went into this study, and hopefully it will result in significant improvements for the treatment of lung cancer patients using platinum based…

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New Co-Author paper: The E3 ubiquitin ligase UBR5 regulates centriolar satellite stability and primary cilia

  Great news, we have recently published a co-author paper in collaboration with Darren Saunders Lab entitled "The E3 ubiquitin ligase UBR5 regulates centriolar satellite stability and primary cilia". The work was pioneered by a very talented student (now Doctor), Robert Shearer.   You can access the full article here [Link] ABSTRACT Primary cilia are crucial for signal transduction in a…

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New Paper Published: MASTL overexpression promotes chromosome instability and metastasis in breast cancer

Very excited to announce that our latest paper entitled "MASTL overexpression promotes chromosome instability and metastasis in breast cancer" has just been published online with Oncogene. You can access the full article for free here:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41388-018-0295-z Abstract MASTL kinase is essential for correct progression through mitosis, with loss of MASTL causing chromosome segregation errors, mitotic collapse and failure of cytokinesis. However,…

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New Co-author Publication: Hic1 maintains chromosomal stability independent of p53

Great news, we have a new co-author publication out in the journal Oncogene! The work was lead by Professor Neil Watkins, and is titled "The tumor suppressor Hic1 maintains chromosomal stability independent of Tp53". You can access the full article here [Link] ABSTRACT: Hypermethylated-in-Cancer 1 (Hic1) is a tumor suppressor gene frequently inactivated by epigenetic silencing and loss-of- heterozygosity in…

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New Co-Author Publication in Gut: CDK4 inhibitors for treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

More great news, we have another co-author publication in the outstanding journal Gut. This fabulous work was pioneered by the very talented Dr Marina Pajic and her group at the Garvan Institute. We were very honoured to be involved in such amazing work. The title of the publication is "Tailored first-line and second-line CDK4-targeting treatment combinations in mouse models of…

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New Co-Author Publication! Ensa controls S-phase length by modulating Treslin levels.

Great news, we have published a co-authored paper entitled 'Ensa controls S-phase length by modulating Treslin levels' in the prestigious journal 'Nature Communications'. This work was started back in 2011 when I was a Post-Doc in the laboratory of Anna Castro in France. It's exciting to see those inital discoveries transition into the finished paper. The article is Open Access and…

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New Publication in Cell! The Phosphoregulation of Mitosis

We are incredibly excited to announce that our SnapShot is out today in Cell! This snapshot of mitosis collates hundreds of phosphorylation events and directly links them with their regulatory kinases and counterbalancing phosphatases, in both time and space, in a highly innovative 'circtanglar' cell layout. More importantly, the static PDF version is accompanied by an interactive website that enables users…

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New Publication: Hedgehog signaling in small cell lung cancer

Great news we have a new co-author publication in Oncogene! This work was in collaboration with Prof. Neil Wakins here at the Garvan Institute and focuses on the role of Hedgehog (Hh)  signaling in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Small cell lung cancer is a common, aggressive malignancy with universally poor prognosis. Full details can be found here [link] TITLE: "The role…

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New Review Published “The role of MDM2 and MDM4 in breast cancer development and prevention”

Great news, we have had a co-author review published in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Biology. You can check out the full review here. Abstract The major cause of death from breast cancer is not the primary tumour, but relapsing, drug-resistant, metastatic disease. Identifying factors that contribute to aggressive cancer offers important leads for therapy. Inherent defense against carcinogens…

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