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Christopher Wakeman

BSc, MSc, PhD (Massey)

Email arielle.sulit@otago.ac.nz

Arielle Sulit is currently working on the contributions of the microbiome to Colorectal Cancer, and their possible associations with human genetic expression in the disease. She has experience in both bioinformatics and laboratory work, and has used both to accomplish work in this field.

Arielle completed her PhD studies at Massey University, Auckland. She investigated the roles of the microbiome and host immune responses in subtypes of Colorectal Cancer, and radiotherapy in rectal cancer. She was supervised by Dr Rachel Purcell, Dr Olin Silander, and Dr Sebastian Schemer.

Publications

Permain, J., Sulit, A., Eglinton, T., & Purcell, R. (2025). Bacterial lipopolysaccharide alters DNA methylation in colorectal cancer cells. Clinical Epigenetics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1186/s13148-025-02012-w Journal - Research Article

Waddell, O., Sulit, A., Wilson, K., Ramsey, R., Heriot, A., Frizelle, F., & Purcell, R. (2025). Consensus molecular subtypes and gene expression in early-onset colorectal cancer. Colorectal Cancer, 14(1), 2562798. doi: 10.1080/1758194X.2025.2562798 Journal - Research Article

Sulit, A. K., Hegoburu, A., & Purcell, R. (2024, August-September). Response to chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancers: Profiling protein expression in defined tumour tissue structures. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Research Week (QRW) Cancer Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Sulit, A., Appleby, S., Pearson, J., & Purcell, R. (2024). Using oxford nanopore technologies to study microbial cell-free DNA (mcfDNA). Proceedings of the 17th GeneMappers Conference. Retrieved from https://www.genemappersconference.org Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Appleby, S., Sulit, A. K., Pemberton, C. J., Pearson, J. F., & Purcell, R. V. (2023, August). Circulating bacterial DNA as a prognostic marker for myocardial infarction. Verbal presentation at the 17th New Zealand Medical Sciences Congress (MedSci), Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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