Dr Gerald Murray - Researcher Profile

Biography

Gerald works in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as a Research Fellow.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: The University of Adelaide

Year awarded: 2005

BSC (HONS)

Institution: The University of Tasmania

Year awarded: 1999

Publications

Journal Articles

Murray, G.L., Lo, M., Bulach, D.M., Srikram, A., Seemann, T., Quinsey, N.S., Sermswan, R., Allen, A., Adler, B., 2013, Evaluation of 238 antigens of Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo for protection against kidney colonisation, Vaccine [P], vol 31, issue 3, Elsevier Ltd, UK, pp. 495-499.

Lambert, A., Picardeau, M., Haake, D.A., Sermswan, R., Srikram, A., Adler, B., Murray, G., 2012, FlaA proteins in Leptospira interrogans are essential for motility and virulence but are not required for formation of the flagellum sheath, Infection And Immunity [P], vol 80, issue 6, American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 2019-2025.

Eshghi, A., Lourdault, K., Murray, G.L., Bartpho, T., Sermswan, R., Picardeau, M., Adler, B., Snarr, B., Zuerner, R.L., Cameron, C.E., 2012, Leptospira interrogans catalase is required for resistance to H2O2 and for virulence, Infection And Immunity [P], vol 80, issue 11, American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 3892-3899.

Srikram, A., Zhang, K., Bartpho, T., Lo, M., Hoke, D., Sermswan, R., Adler, B., Murray, G., 2011, Cross-protective immunity against leptospirosis elicited by a live, attenuated lipopolysaccharide mutant, Journal of Infectious Diseases [E], vol 203, issue 6, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 870-879.

Adler, B., Lo, M., Seemann, T., Murray, G.L., 2011, Pathogenesis of leptospirosis: The influence of genomics, Veterinary Microbiology [P], vol 153, issue 1-2, Elsevier BV, The Netherlands, pp. 73-81.

Murray, G.L., Srikram, A., Henry, R.M., Hartskeerl, R., Sermswan, R., Adler, B., 2010, Mutations affecting Leptospira interrogans lipopolysaccharide attenuate virulence, Molecular Microbiology [P], vol 78, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 701-709.

Lo, M., Murray, G.L., Khoo, C.A., Haake, D.A., Zuerner, R.L., Adler, B., 2010, Transcriptional response of Leptospira interrogans to iron limitation and characterization of a PerR homolog, Infection And Immunity [P], vol 78, issue 11, American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 4850-4859.

Murray, G.L., King, A.M., Srikram, A., Sermswan, R., Adler, B., 2010, Use of luminescent Leptospira interrogans for enumeration in biological assays, Journal Of Clinical Microbiology [P], vol 48, issue 6, American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 2037-2042.

Vivian, J., Beddoe, T.C., McAlister, A.D., Wilce, M.C.J., Zaker-Tabrizi, L., Troy, S.T., Byres, E., Hoke, D.E., Cullen, P.A., Lo, M., Murray, G.L., Adler, B., Rossjohn, J., 2009, Crystal structure of LipL32, the most abundant surface protein of pathogenic Leptospira spp., Journal of Molecular Biology, vol 387, issue 5, Academic Press, UK, pp. 1229-1238.

Murray, G.L., Morel, V., Cerqueira, G.M., Croda, J., Srikram, A., Henry, R., Ko, A.I., Dellagostin, O.A., Bulach, D.M., Sermswan, R.W., Adler, B., Picardeau, M., 2009, Genome-wide transposon mutagenesis in pathogenic Leptospira species, Infection and Immunity, vol 77, issue 2, American Society for Microbiology, USA, pp. 810-816.

Murray, G.L., Srikram, A., Henry, R.M., Puapairoj, A., Sermswan, R., Adler, B., 2009, Leptospira interrogans requires heme oxygenase for disease pathogenesis, Microbes and Infection, vol 11, issue 2, Elsevier Masson, France, pp. 311-314.

Murray, G.L., Srikram, A., Hoke, D.E., Wunder Jr., E.A., Henry, R.M., Lo, M., Zhang, K., Sermswan, R.W., Ko, A.I., Adler, B., 2009, Major surface protein LipL32 is not required for either acute or chronic infection with Leptospira interrogans, Infection and Immunity, vol 77, issue 3, American Society for Microbiology, United States, pp. 952-958.

Murray, G.L., Ellis, K., Lo, M., Adler, B., 2008, Leptospira interrogans requires a functional heme oxygenase to scavenge iron from hemoglobin, Microbes & Infection, vol 10, issue 7, Elsevier France, France, pp. 791-797.

Murray, G.L., Attridge, S.R., Morona, R., 2006, Altering the length of the lipopolysaccharide O antigen has an impact on the interaction of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with macrophages and complement, Journal of bacteriology, vol 188, issue 7, Amer Soc Microbiology, WASHINGTON USA, pp. 2735-2739.

Murray, G.L., Attridge, S.R., Morona, R., 2005, Inducible serum resistance in Salmonella typhimurium is dependent on wzzfepE-regulated very long O antigen chains, Microbes and Infection, vol 7, issue 13, Elsevier, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 1296-1304.

Murray, G.L., Attridge, S.R., Morona, R., 2003, Regulation of Salmonella typhimurium lipopolysaccharide O antigen chain length is required for virulence; identification of FepE as a second Wzz, Molecular Microbiology, vol 47, issue 5, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 1395-1406.

Murray, G.L., Bao, W., Fukuhara, H., Zuo, X., Clark-Walker, G.D., Chen, X., 2000, Disruption of the MRP-L23 gene encoding the mitochondrial ribosomal protein L23 is lethal for Kluyveromyces lactis but not for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Current Genetics, vol 37, issue 2, Springer International, 233 SPRING STREET New York NY USA, pp. 87-93.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Pathogenesis of Leptospirosis.

Supervisors:

Adler, B (Main), Murray, G (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Henry, R.

Program of Study:

Metalloproteases of Leptospira. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Adler, B (Main), Murray, G (Associate).