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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 9061
Email
diane.guevremont@otago.ac.nz
Position
Scientific Officer
Department
Department of Anatomy
Qualifications
BSc(McGill)
Research summary
Molecular Neuroscience
Memberships
Neurological Research Committee

Research

I work in Dr Joanna Williams' lab identifying biomarkers within plasma which may be predictive of neurological diseases like Alzheimer's.

Additional details

I am the curator of our blood archive (Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson and Control human participants). I have a lot of experience in the following methodologies: protein isolation, protein synthesis assays, Western blotting, genotyping, RNA isolation and qPCR miRNA/mRNA arrays, bioinformatics and statistical analyses.

Publications

Guévremont, D., Roy, J., Garvey, A., McLean, C., Cutfield, N., & Williams, J. (2026). Plasma microRNA predict cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 143, 108149. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2025.108149 Journal - Research Article

Sahota, J., Guevremont, D., Morris, V., Dalrymple-Alford, J., Anderson, T., & Williams, J. M. (2025). Dominantly inherited Alzheimer network (DIAN) in New Zealand. In A. Banstola (Ed.), Proceedings of the 41st International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). 11.23, (pp. 66). Retrieved from https://www.awcbr.org Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Potemkin, N., Cawood, S. M. F., Guévremont, D., Mockett, B., Treece, J., Stanton, J.-A. L., & Williams, J. M. (2025). Whole transcriptome RNA-Seq reveals drivers of pathological dysfunction in a transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease. Molecular Neurobiology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s12035-025-04878-6 Journal - Research Article

Guévremont, D., Roy, J., Cutfield, N. J., & Williams, J. M. (2023). MicroRNAs in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and diagnostic accuracy meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 16272. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-43096-9 Journal - Research Article

Guévremont, D., Tsui, H., Knight, R. G., Fowler, C. J., Masters, C. L., Martins, R. N., Abraham, W. C., Tate, W. P., Cutfield, N. J., & Williams, J. M. (2022). Plasma microRNA vary in association with the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 14, e12251. doi: 10.1002/dad2.12251 Journal - Research Article

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