Staff profile

Dr Mark Bleackley

Research Officer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Molecular Sciences
Department of Biochemistry

Room 380 (Lab), Room 380b (Office), Physical Sciences 4, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD

Area of study

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Brief profile

Postdoctoral Fellow, Anderson lab

Current research:

High-throughput screening to identify targets of plant defensins.

Recent publications

Vashchenko G, Bleackley MR, Griffiths TA, Macgillivray RT. Oxidation of organic and biogenic amines by recombinant human hephaestin expressed in Pichia pastoris.  Arch Biochem Biophys. 2011 Jul 23. [Epub ahead of print]

Bleackley MR, Macgillivray RT. Transition metal homeostasis: from yeast to human disease. Biometals. 2011 Oct;24(5):785-809. Epub 2011 Apr 10.

Bleackley MR, Young BP, Loewen CJ, MacGillivray RT. High density array screening to identify the genetic requirements for transition metal tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metallomics. 2011 Feb;3(2):195-205. Epub 2011 Jan 6.

Bleackley MR, Wong AY, Hudson DM, Wu CH, Macgillivray RT. Blood iron homeostasis: newly discovered proteins and iron imbalance. Transfus Med Rev. 2009 Apr;23(2):103-23. Review.

Hewitt J, Craven SJ, Brown LA, Bleackley MR, Ballard JN, Smith VC, Ofosu FA, Huntsman DG, Wadsworth LD, Wu JK, Macgillivray RT. Molecular determination of the breakpoints of a 161 556 bp deletion at chromosome 13q34 that presented as severe factor VII deficiency in a neonate. Br J Haematol. 2008 Mar;140(5):589-92. Epub 2007 Dec 19.

Page MJ, Bleackley MR, Wong S, MacGillivray RT, Di Cera E. Conversion of trypsin into a Na(+)-activated enzyme. Biochemistry. 2006 Mar 7;45(9):2987-93.

Page MJ, Griffiths TA, Bleackley MR, MacGillivray RT. Proteomics: applications relevant to transfusion medicine. Transfus Med Rev. 2006 Jan;20(1):63-74. Review.

Older publications

View more of my publications on PubMed.