APCRC - Q Seminar Series Event
| Event Type | Seminar |
|---|---|
| When |
Aug 28, 2012
from 08:00 PM to 10:00 PM |
| Where | Russell Strong Auditorium |
| Contact Name | Mel Raassina |
| Contact Phone | +61 7 3176 1894 |
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“BanF1 from aging to genome stability.”
Dr Derek Richard
Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
Queensland University of Technology
Dr Richard obtained his PhD in microbial biochemistry from the University of Dundee (Scotland) in 1999. His research interest then moved from the bacterial domain of life to the archaea where he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Malcolm White studying archaeal DNA repair systems. During this time at St Andrews University they made significant progress in understanding the role of the crenarchaeol SSB family of proteins. This research led to the seminal discovery of the human SSB homologues with this work being published in Nature (2008). Dr Richard moved to Queensland in 2004 to join the team of Prof Kum Kum Khanna at QIMR before moving his research team to the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at QUT in Feb 2011. Since moving to Queensland he has licensed technologies to and works as a consultant for Cancer Therapeutics. His latest research has lead to the initiation of a clinical trial sponsored by Cancer Research UK. In 2006 Dr Richard was awarded the RBWH Sir Ian McFarlane medal. Dr Richard has published in prestigious journals including, Nature, Genes and Development, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Cell Biology, Pathology and Nucleic Acids Research.
Dr Richard’s team investigate the cellular processes that allow cells to cope with genomic stress and how these processes are modified in disease. This research centres on the initial basic discoveries to the translation from bench to bedside.
'Alu related non-coding RNA transcripts in prostate cancer'
Dr Gregor Tevz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre - Queensland
IHBI, QUT
After receiving a Bachelor of Science of Microbiology from the University of Ljubljana, Dr Tevz took up a position as a research assistant at the National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia.
In 2005, Dr Tevz began his PhD, in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ljubljana and Institute of Oncology Ljubljana.
After being awarded his PhD, Dr Tevz joined European Initial Training Network Consortium for Prostate Cancer Research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Philips Research in Netherlands.
He then travelled to Australia to join the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Queensland where his main research focus is progression of prostate cancer to castrate resistant disease and identification and development of new therapeutic targets.
