Molecular and Cell Biology

Mila Grinblat

Mila Grinblat

Dena Francis

Dena Francis

David Whitmore

David Whitmore

Margaret Jordan

Margaret Jordan

Patrick Schaeffer

Patrick Schaeffer

Sacha Jensen

Sacha Jensen

Lionel Hebbard

Lionel Hebbard

Craig McFarlane

Craig McFarlane

Alanna Sorenson

Alanna Sorenson

Alan Baxter

Alan Baxter

Improving outcomes for patients with muscle wasting disease and liver cancer - SERTA Capacity Research Grant. (Old ID 28986)
Craig McFarlane
31 Oct 2023 - 31 Oct 2025
The funding of a Research Assistant and the performance of work by the Research Assistant in connection with a program of work undertaken by the Cancer and Metabolism Group within the College of Public Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science aimed at improving outcomes for patients with muscle wasting disease and liver cancer.
Establishing the North Queensland Liver Cancer Library (Old ID 27086)
Craig McFarlane
15 Dec 2020 - 30 Jun 2022
This project will develop a North Queensland Liver Cancer Library. Liver tumours and non-tumour tissues will be resected from patients and fixed and frozen. The tissues will also be dissociated and cultured in three dimensions to make tumour organoids that will be used in future in vivo experiments in mice, drug trials and biochemical assays.
Precision medicine for North Queensland Liver Cancer Patients. (Old ID 27477)
Craig McFarlane
01 Jan 2022 - 28 Feb 2025
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive and poorly treated liver cancer that is rapidly increasing in incidence in North Queensland. Most patients are ineligible to have their cancer surgically removed, and new systemic therapeutics only extend patient lives by six to eight months. Thus, new treatment approaches are urgently required. Through the collaboration of surgeons, scientists and bioinformaticians we are developing Precision Medicine for North Queensland Liver Cancer Patients. Using bioinformatics and three dimensional culture models we will trial novel therapeutic approaches. This research will rapidly lead to new therapeutic approaches to treat HCC.
Accelerating clean meat fish production (Old ID 28945)
Craig McFarlane
01 Mar 2023 - 30 Jun 2023
Our aim is to build a new technology to mass-produce sustainable Clean Meat Seafood at low cost. This will enable us to: (i) feed the world’s population, (ii) prevent further exploitation of the world’s oceans and overfishing of endangered wild-caught species, (iii) to avoid the high environmental costs associated with aquaculture, and (iv) provide a sustainable and safe alternative of those species that cannot be successfully reared and grown in an aquaculture setting.
CSIRO Confidentiality Agreement - Fytobio
Craig McFarlane
18 Mar 2024 - 18 Mar 2026
Will discuss research of group with CSIRO Protein Production Group with respect to Fytobio.
Role of cbEGF domains in the intermolecular interactions of fibrillin-1 transglutaminase sites.
Sacha Jensen
11 Mar 2002 - 10 Jun 2004
grant
The architecture and assembly of fibrillin microfibrils, key components of elastic fibres.
Sacha Jensen
01 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2011
grant
Intermolecular interactions of fibrillin-1 microfibril assembly.
Sacha Jensen
01 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2008
grant
Molecular pathology of acromelic dysplasias associated with FBN1 mutations
Sacha Jensen
01 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2014
grant
Defining the molecular mechanisms involving microfibrils and ADAMTSL2 that lead to skeletal dysplasias
Sacha Jensen
01 Mar 2015 - 28 Feb 2018
grant

EST analysis of the cnidarian Acropora millepora reveals extensive gene loss and rapid sequence divergence in the model invertebrates

The evolutionary history of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Cnidaria) based on a mitochondrial and a nuclear marker: reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting, or morphological convergence?

A simple plan: cnidarians and the origins of developmental mechanisms

Patterns of coral-dinoflagellate associations in Acropora: significance of local availability and physiology of Symbiodinium strains and host-symbiont selectivity

Maintenance of ancestral complexity and non-metazoan genes in two basal cnidarians

Cnidarians and ancestral genetic complexity in the animal kingdom

Spawning times, reproductive compatibilities and genetic structuring in the Acropora aspera group: evidence for natural hybridization and semi-permeable species boundaries in corals

The role of hybridization in the evolution of reef corals

Sympatric populations of the highly cross-fertile coral species Acropora hyacinthus and Acropora cytherea are genetically distinct

Light-responsive cryptochromes from a simple multicellular animal, the coral Acropora millepora

Title: Human Ethic Monitor, James Cook University
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2014
Title: BSc (Hons), University of the Witwatersrand
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
End Date: 01 Jan 1996
Title: Senior Research Fellow, CGC, James Cook University
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2014
Title: Psychology, University of South Africa
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 1990
End Date: 01 Jan 1993
Title: Honours co-ordinator (Molecular and Cell Biology), James Cook University
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2013
Title: BSc, University of the Witwatersrand
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
End Date: 01 Jan 1986
Title: Research/Research Education MCB Representative, JCU
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018
End Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: National Somatic Variant Curation training, Queensland Genomic Health Alliiance
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019
End Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: National Somatic Variant Curation training , Queensland Genomic Health Alliance (QGHA)
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019
End Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural capability Cultural Practice , James Cook University
Reseracher: Margaret Jordan (Senior Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018
End Date: 01 Jan 2018