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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 470 3452
Email
david.markie@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Pathology (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BMedSc MB ChB PhD(Otago)
Research summary
Clinical biochemistry and Molecular genetics

Research

We have an interest in the identification, characterisation and functional analysis of genes that contribute to the development of colorectal cancer. This includes genes responsible for rare inherited predispositions to cancer, as well as genes that are defective in the more common sporadic forms of cancer.

Approaches to the study of these genes have included linkage analysis in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome pedigrees to identify the responsible gene, and mutation surveys of the DNA mismatch repair genes and the mitotic spindle checkpoint genes in a series of sporadic colorectal cancers. We are also using yeast systems to analyse the function of human DNA mismatch repair gene variants and applying functional genomics approaches to further understand the mitotic spindle checkpoint pathway.

Publications

Halliday, B. J., Markie, D., Goodin, E., Black, M., Sporle, A., Watson, H., Wilcox, P., & Robertson, S. P. (2023). Detection and mitigation of microbiome DNA presence in saliva-derived whole genome sequence data. Proceedings of the eResearch NZ Conference. (pp. 43). Retrieved from www.eresearchnz2023.org.nz Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Halliday, B. J., Baynam, G., Ewans, L., Greenhalgh, L., Leventer, R. J., Pilz, D. T., … Markie, D. M., … Robertson, S. P., & Mandelstam, S. (2022). Distinctive brain malformations in Zhu-Tokita-Takenouchi-Kim syndrome. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 43(11), 1660-1666. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A7663 Journal - Research Article

Powell, R. M., Pattison, S., Moravec, J. C., Bhat, B., Guirguis, N., Markie, D., Jones, G. T., … Print, C. G., Morison, I. M., Gavryushkin, A., … Eccles, M. R., & Macaulay, E. C. (2022). Tuberous sclerosis complex: A complex case. Molecular Case Studies, 8, a006182. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a006182 Journal - Research Article

Halliday, B. J., Jenkins, Z. A., Markie, D. M., & Robertson, S. P. (2021). Building a brain: From genes to phenotypes. New Zealand Medical Journal, 134(1537), (pp. 109-110). Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Fukushima, K., Parthasarathy, P., Wade, E. M., Morgan, T., Gowrishankar, K., Markie, D. M., & Robertson, S. P. (2021). Intragenic deletions in FLNB are part of the mutational spectrum causing spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome. Genes, 12(4), 528. doi: 10.3390/genes12040528 Journal - Research Other

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