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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 470 3455
Email
jackie.ludgate@otago.ac.nz
Position
Research Fellow
Department
Department of Pathology (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BSc(Hons)
Research summary
Genetic/Epigenetic origins of childhood leukaemia

Research

Providing laboratory support to a wide range of research projects undertaken in the Epigenetics Group.

  • Investigating candidate genes for involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  • Using a range of methods including: transgenic mice, yeast two-hybrid, methylation (epigenetic) analysis

Publications

Lynch-Sutherland, C. F., McDougall, L. I., Stockwell, P. A., Almomani, S. N., Weeks, R. J., Ludgate, J. L., … Chatterjee, A., … Eccles, M. R., & Macaulay, E. C. (2023). The transposable element-derived transcript of LIN28B has a placental origin and is not specific to tumours. Molecular Genetics & Genomics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s00438-023-02033-1 Journal - Research Article

Ludgate, J. L., Weeks, R. J., & Morison, I. M. (2021). Aberrant immunoglobulin kappa locus rearrangement in a patient with CARD11-related B cell lymphocytosis. Journal of Clinical Immunology, 41, 1943-1945. doi: 10.1007/s10875-021-01114-3 Journal - Research Other

Weeks, R. J., Ludgate, J. L., Le Mée, G., Khanal, R., Mehta, S., Williams, G., Slatter, T. L., Braithwaite, A. W., & Morison, I. M. (2020). Silencing of Testin expression is a frequent event in spontaneous lymphomas from Trp53-mutant mice. Scientific Reports, 10, 16255. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73229-3 Journal - Research Article

Macaulay, E. C., Almomani, S., Lynch-Sutherland, C. F., Chatterjee, A. C., Stockwell, P. A., Alsaleh, A. A., Wilson, J. L., Weeks, R. J., Day, R. C., Fukuzawa, R., Slatter, T. L., Hung, N. A., Devenish, C., Morison, I. M., & Eccles, M. R. (2019, August-September). The placental potential: Harnessing insights from placental epigenetics to predict disease. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Gamage, T. K. J. B., Schierding, W., Hurley, D., Tsai, P., Ludgate, J. L., Bhoothpur, C., … Weeks, R. J., Macaulay, E. C., & James, J. L. (2018). The role of DNA methylation in human trophoblast differentiation. Epigenetics, 13(12), 1154-1173. doi: 10.1080/15592294.2018.1549462 Journal - Research Article

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