Science, Technology and Engineering

Teaching

Department of Biochemistry

Dr Damian Spencer BMedSc(Hons), PhD (La Trobe), GradCert Higher Ed Lecturer Phone: +61 3 9479 2545 (Office) Fax: +61 3 9479 1266 Email: D.Spencer@latrobe.edu.au Room 109 (Office), Physical Sciences 4

Honours and Awards

2011 La Trobe University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

2007 Institute for Advanced Study Postgraduate Write-Up Award

2005 ASBMB poster prize, ComBio conference, Adelaide

2004 ASBMB poster prize, ComBio conference, Perth

2002 La Trobe University David Myers Research Scholarship

2001 David Myers Medal awarded to the top Honours student in the faculty

2001 David Kelly Medal awarded to the top Honours student in the school

2001 Unitika Prize awarded to the top Honours student in the department

1999 Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria Studentship

Professional Memberships

• Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA)
• Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

Publications

Kimura K, Spencer DM, Bilardi RA, Swift LP, Box, A, Brownlee RT, Cutts, SM and Phillips DR (2010) Barminomycin, a Model for the Development of New Anthracyclines. Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 10: 70-77. PMID: 19807684

Phillips DR, Swift L, Coldwell K, Spencer D, Bilardi R, Evison B, Mansour O, Nudelman A, Rephaeli A, Koch TH and Cutts SM (2009) Drug-DNA adducts formed by formaldehyde activation of anthracycline and related anti-cancer agents. In Drug-DNA Adducts: Formation, Detection and Mutagenesis, Nova Science, NY.

Kitevska T, Spencer DM and Hawkins CJ (2009) Caspase-2: controversial killer or checkpoint controller? Apoptosis, 14(7): 829-848. PMID: 19479377

Spencer DM, Bilardi RA, Koch TH, Post GC, Nafie JW, Kimura K, Cutts SM and Phillips DR (2008) DNA repair in response to anthracycline-DNA adducts: a role for both homologous recombination and nucleotide excision repair. Mutation Research, 638(1-2): 110-21. PMID: 17961607

Cutts SM, Nudelman A, Pillay V, Spencer DM, Levovich I, Rephaeli A and Phillips DR (2005) Formaldehyde-releasing prodrugs in combination with Adriamycin can overcome cellular drug resistance, Oncology Research, 15(4): 199-213. PMID: 17822280

Spencer DM, Cutts SM, Kimura K, Gray PJ and Phillips DR (2003) Detection of labile anthracycline-DNA adducts by real-time PCR, Oncology Research, 13(11): 479-489. PMID: 12812362