Dr Simon Harris - Researcher Profile

Biography

Simon works in the Centre of Green Chemistry at Monash University as a Research Fellow.

Qualifications

MASTER OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS

Institution: RMIT University

Year awarded: 2008

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of QLD

Year awarded: 1989

MASTERS BY RESEARCH

Institution: University of QLD

Year awarded: 1985

Unknown

Institution: Griffith University

Year awarded: 1982

Publications

Journal Articles

Ciayadi, R., Potdar, M., Walton, K., Harrison, G., Kelso, G., Harris, S., Hearn, M., 2011, 2-Phenyl and 2-heterocyclic-4-(3-(pyridin-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)pyridines as inhibitors of TGF-B1 and activin A signalling, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters [P], vol 21, issue 18, Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford England, pp. 5642-5645.

Widakowich, G., Zhang, C., Harris, S., Mitri, K., Powers, G., Troung, K., Hearn, M., 2011, Effects of IMAC specific peptide tags on the stability of recombinant green fluorescent protein, Biotechnology Progress [P], vol 27, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell, USA, pp. 1048-1053.

Schwarz, L., Danylec, B., Yang, Y., Harris, S., Boysen, R., Hearn, M., 2011, Enrichment of (E)-resveratrol from peanut byproduct with molecularly imprinted polymers, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry [P], vol 59, issue 8, American Chemical Society, Washington Detroit USA, pp. 3539-3543.

Schwarz, L., Danylec, B., Harris, S., Boysen, R., Hearn, M., 2011, Preparation of molecularly imprinted polymers for the selective recognition of the bioactive polyphenol, (E)-resveratrol, Journal of Chromatography A [P], vol 1218, issue 16, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 2189-2195.

Kazi, S., Kelso, G., Harris, S., Boysen, R., Chowdhury, J., Hearn, M., 2010, Synthesis of quinoline thioethers as novel small molecule enhancers of monoclonal antibody production in mammalian cell culture, Tetrahedron [P], vol 66, issue 48, Pergamon Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford England, pp. 9461-9467.

Hu, H., Ran, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhou, Z., Harris, S.J., Yu, L., Sun, L., Pan, J., Liu, J., Lou, J., Yang, Z., 2009, Antibody library-based tumor endothelial cells surface proteomic functional screen reveals migration-stimulating factor as an anti-angiogenic target., Molecular & Cellular Proteomics [P], vol 8, issue 4, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc., United States of America, pp. 816-826.

Papakonstantinou, T., Harris, S.J., Hearn, M.T.W., 2009, Expression of GFP using pichia pastoris vectors with zeocin or g-418 sulphate as the primary selectable marker, Yeast [P], vol 26, Wiley Interscience, United Kingdom, pp. 311-321.

Yang, Y., Boysen, R.I., Harris, S.J., Hearn, M.T.W., 2009, Peptide mapping with mobile phases of intermediate pH value using capillary reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry, Journal of Chromatography A [P], vol 1216, issue 18, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 3767-3773.

Papakonstantinou, T., Harris, S.J., Fredericks, D.P., Harrison, C.A., Wallace, E.M., Hearn, M.T.W., 2009, Synthesis, purification and bioactivity of recombinant human activin A expressed in the yeast pichia pastoris, Protein Expression and Purification, vol 64, Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 131-138.

Other

Hearn, M., Langford, S., Tuck, K., Harris, S., Boysen, R., Perchyonok, V., Danylec, B., Schwarz, L., Chowdhury, J., 2010, Moleculary Imprinted Polymers, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Capillary electrophoresis separation and high-throughput proteomics analysis of recombinant proteins.

Supervisors:

Hearn, M (Main), Boysen, R (Associate), Harris, S (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Ciayadi, R.

Program of Study:

The synthesis of inhibitors of TGF-beta cytokine signalling and identification of their protein binding partners. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Hearn, M (Main), Harris, S (Associate), Kelso, G (Associate).