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Simone MacmilResearch Fellow

MSc(Baroda), PhD(Oklahoma)

Email simone.macmil@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 364 1222

Research Interests

  • G-quadruplex DNA, Next Generation DNA Sequencing, analysis and annotation
  • Whole Genome Sequencing
  • Whole Exome sequencing
  • Targeted Re-sequencing
  • Transcriptomes- EST profiling
  • De Novo Assembly
  • Microbial genomics
  • Protocol optimization and automation
  • Protein purification
  • Enzyme assays and kinetics
  • Tissue culture

Publications

Cree, S., Maggo, S., Slow, S., Ton, K., de Jong, L., Anderson, T., Pearson, J., Miller, A., Walker, L., Murdoch, D., & Kennedy, M. (2017). Long read nanopore sequencing in the laboratory. Proceedings of the MapNet Conference. Retrieved from http://scienceevents.co.nz/mapnet/

de Jong, L. C., Cree, S., Lattimore, V., Wiggins, G. A. R., Spurdle, A. B., kConFab Investigators, Miller, A., Kennedy, M. A., & Walker, L. C. (2017). Nanopore sequencing of full-length BRCA1 mRNA transcripts reveals co-occurrence of known exon skipping events. Breast Cancer Research, 19, 127. doi: 10.1186/s13058-017-0919-1

Maggo, S. D. S., Chua, E. W., Chin, P., Cree, S., Pearson, J., Doogue, M., & Kennedy, M. A. (2017). A New Zealand platform to enable genetic investigation of adverse drug reactions. New Zealand Medical Journal, 130(1466), 62-69. Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

Kennedy, M. A., Maggo, S. D. S., Foulds, J., Luty, S., Chua, E. W., Cree, S., Ton, K., Liau, Y., Miller, A. L., Chin, P., … Doogue, M. (2017). DNA banking and genetic analysis of adverse drug reactions in the New Zealand healthcare setting. Proceedings of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting. 2123. Retrieved from http://www.ashg.org/2017meeting/

Cree, S. L., Fredericks, R., Miller, A., Pearce, F. G., Filichev, V., Fee, C., & Kennedy, M. A. (2016). DNA G-quadruplexes show strong interaction with DNA methyltransferases in vitro. FEBS Letters, 590(17), 2870-2883. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.12331

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