Dr Elecia Johnston ~ Postdoctoral Research Fellow
College of Public Health, Medical & Vet Sciences
- About
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- Teaching
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- BC2024: Cell Biology (Level 2; TSV)
- BC3202: Special Topics in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Level 3; TSV)
- BC5202: Advanced Laboratory Practice in Molecular and Cell Biology (Level 5; TSV)
- BM1000: Introductory Biochemistry and Microbiology (Level 1; TSV)
- PC2001: Molecular Basis of Therapeutics 2 (Level 2; TSV)
- TV1102: Cell Biology and Biochemistry for Veterinary Science and Agriculture (Level 1; TSV)
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- Publications
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- Journal Articles
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- Johnston E, Kamath S, Lopata A and Schaeffer P (2014) Tus-Ter-lock immuno-PCR assays for the sensitive detection of tropomyosin-specific IgE antibodies. Bioanalysis, 6 (4). pp. 465-476
- Ma C, Yang X, Kandemir H, Mielczarek M, Johnston E, Griffith R, Kumar N and Lewis P (2013) Inhibitors of bacterial transcription initiation complex formation. ACS Chemical Biology, 8 (9). pp. 1972-1980
- Johnston E, Lewis P and Griffith R (2009) The interaction of Bacillus subtilis sigmaA with RNA polymerase. Protein Science, 18 (11). pp. 2287-2297
- Yang X, Molimau S, Doherty G, Johnston E, Marles-Wright J, Rothnagel R, Hankamer B, Lewis R and Lewis P (2009) The structure of bacterial RNA polymerase in complex with the essential transcription elongation factor NusA. EMBO Reports, 10 (9). pp. 997-1002
- Other research outputs
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- Nugraha R, Kamath S, Ruethers T, Johnston E, Koeberl M, Rolland J, O'Hehir R, Zenger K and Lopata A (2016) Identification of novel oyster allergens using a combined transcriptomic and proteomic approach for improved component resolved diagnosis. Internal Medicine Journal, 46 (Supplement 4). p. 9
- Current Funding
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QLD Department of Science, Information, Technology and Innovation - Advance Queensland Women's Academic Fund
The Development of Procedures for Quantifying Prawn Allergens
- Indicative Funding
- $21,000
- Summary
- There is an increasing prevalence of food allergies world-wide with shellfish being one of the main food groups that provoke serious IgE-mediated adverse reactions. Shellfish allergy affects up to 2% of the world population, with higher prevalence seen in areas with high seafood consumption. Because of the high incidence of allergic reactions to prawns, the study focuses on this highly consumed shellfish species. The major allergenic proteins from prawns will be purified and monoclonal antibodies will be developed against them. These antibodies will be used to establish a sensitive and reproducible ELISA based quantification method for the prawn allergens.
- Investigators
- Elecia Johnston, Andreas Lopata and Sonia Iyer (College of Public Health and Medical & Vet Sciences)
- Keywords
- Allergy; Food allergy; IgE antibody; Immunotherapy; Recombinant protein; Vaccine
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