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DR CHRISTINE HAWKINS



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Organization: Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital
Position: Honorary (Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Isolation and analysis of novel caspases Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • In vitro sensitivity testing of minimally passaged and uncultured gliomas with TRAIL and/or chemotherapy drugs.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: British Journal of Cancer
    Volume: 99
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 294-304
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  • The parent-reported prevalence and management of peanut and nut allergy in school children in the Australian Capital Territory
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 2008
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Caspase-8 Levels Correlate With the Expression of Signal Transducer and Activator or Transcription 1 in High-Grade But Not Lower Grade Neuroblastoma
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cancer
    Volume: 107
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 824-831
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  • Human Bcl-2 cannot directly inhibit the Caenorhabditis elegans Apaf-1homologue CED-4, but can interact with EGL-1
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Cell Science
    Volume: 119
    Page numbers: 2572-2582
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  • Human telomerase reverse transcriptase protects hematopoietic progenitor death and quiescence induced by cytokine withdrawal
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Leukemia
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1270-1278
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  • Human, insect and nematode caspases kill Saccharomyces cerevisiae independently of YCA1 and Aif1p
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Apoptosis
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 509-517
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Caspase 8 is absent or low in many ex vivi gliomas.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cancer
    Volume: 104
    Issue: 1487-1496
    Page numbers: 7
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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  • Caspase-2 is resistant to inhibition by inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) and can activate caspase-7.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The FEBS Journal
    Volume: 272
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1401-1414
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Caspase-8 is absent or low in many ex vivo gliomas
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cancer
    Volume: 104
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1487-1496
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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  • Mammalian initiator apoptotic caspases.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The FEBS Journal
    Volume: 272
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 5436-5453
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Apaf-1 and caspase-9 accelerate apoptosis, but do not determine whether factor-deprived or drug-treated cells die.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Cell Biology
    Volume: 165
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 835-842
    Publisher: Rockefeller University Press(New York)
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  • Caspase-8 levels affect necessity for mitochondrial amplification in death ligand-induced glioma cell apoptosis.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Molecular Carcinogenesis
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 173-182
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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  • The p35 family of apoptosis inhibitors
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Current Genomics
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 215-229
    Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Analysis of FasL and TRAIL induced apoptosis pathways in glioma cells
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Oncogene
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 5789-5798
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group(Basingstroke)
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  • Direct inhibition of caspase 3 is disepnsable for the anti-apoptic activity of XIAP
    Year: 2001
    Journal: EMBO Journal
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 3114-3123
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Ex vivo pediatric brain tumors express Fas (CD95) and FasL (CD95L) and are resistant to apoptosis induction
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Neuro-Oncology
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 229-240
    Publisher: Carden Jennings Publishing(Virginia)
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