Good news

Jo Lane graduated with her PhD in Psychology in Dec 2018 (along with Robyn’s son, Harry Slatyer)

Research projects

The PFAS Health Study: The team is finalising details for the cross-sectional survey and blood serum study, as well as preparing ethics documentation and research protocols for the data linkage study. A shipment of bloods was received in January.

The Relief in MS Study: the team is continuing to finalise ethics submissions and organize multi-institutional agreements.

Epigenetics of MS in the Ausimmune Case control Study: DNA is currently being extracted from blood samples, by our Newcastle collaborators.

Papers accepted/published:

1. Ratnadiwakara M, Rooke M, Ohms SJ, French HJ, Williams RBH, Li RW, Zhang D, Lucas RM, Blackburn AC. The SuprMam1 breast cancer susceptibility locus disrupts the vitamin D/calcium/parathyroid hormone pathway and alters bone structure in congenic mice. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol (accepted 7 Dec 2018)

1. Zhang Y, Zhou Y, van der Mei I, Simpson S, Ponsonby A-L, Lucas RM, Tettey P, Charlesworth J, Kostner K, Ausimmune/AusLong Investigators, Taylor BV. Lipid-related genetic polymorphisms significantly modulate the association between lipids and disability progression in multiple sclerosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psych (accepted 24 Dec 2018)

1. Malacova E, Cheang P, Dunlop E, Sherriff J, Lucas RM, Daly RM, Nowson CA, Black LJ. Prevalence and predictors of vitamin D deficiency in a nationally-representative sample of adults participating in the 2011-2013 Australian Health Survey. Br J Nutr (accepted 10 Jan 2019)

    

2. Swaminathan A, Harrison S, Ketheesan N, van den Boogaard C, Dear K, Allen M, Hart P, Cook M, Lucas RM. Exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation suppresses cell-mediated immunisation responses in humans: the Australian Ultraviolet Radiation and Immunity Study J Invest Dermatol (accepted 31 Dec 2018)

1. Lucas RM, Yazar S , Young AR, Norval M, de Gruijl FR, Takizawa Y, Rhodes LE, Sinclair CA, Neale RE. Human health in relation to exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation under changing stratospheric ozone and climate, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2019, DOI: 10.1039/c8pp90060d (and the supplementary material, DOI: 10.1039/c8pp90060d)

    

2. Black LJ, Bowe GS, Pereira G, Lucas RM, Dear K, van der Mei I, Sherriff JL and the Ausimmune Investigator Group. Non-processed red meat consumption is associated with a reduced risk of central nervous system demyelination. Frontiers in Neurology (accepted 30 Jan 2019)

    

3. Lane J, Rohan EMF, Sabeti F, Essex RW, Maddess T, Dawel A, et al. (2018) Impacts of impaired face perception on social interactions and quality of life in age-related macular degeneration: A qualitative study and new community resources. PLoS ONE 13(12): e0209218. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209218 (Published 31 December 2018).

    

   Conference presentations

   Lal A. Temporal variations in water temperature and cyanobacterial abundance along the Murray-Darling River, 1990-2015 and the responses to projected changes in temperature. Water in the Anthropocene: predicting how we interact with our modified environment. Canberra 31 Jan 2019