Ms Angela O'Keeffe
Angela O’Keeffe has a Bachelor of Applied Science majoring in biotechnology and life sciences. She has worked in a variety of technical research positions which has provided her with the opportunity to acquired high level technical expertise in various biotechnology methods. Her last role was as a senior research technician working in Professor Robert Henry’s Research Laboratory, where she was responsible for the generation of high-quality RNA samples for sugarcane transcriptomes. Angela has presented posters as first author at TropAg2017 on her work optimising sugarcane differential gene expression and at TropAg2019 on the anatomical features of sugarcane fibre quality. Angela’s principal advisor is Professor Robert Henry who is Institute Director of Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation. Professor Henry is an expert on plant genomics and genetics and the application of DNA technology to the improvement of the quality of crops and agricultural and food products. She is also a member of CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Advanced Breeding Technologies group, where her associate supervisor is Dr Karen Aiken, a principal scientist at CSIRO working on the genomics and genetics of sugarcane. Dr Aitken has over 20 years’ experience in sugarcane research with focus on understanding complex plant genomes and polyploidy.
Project title: Genetic solutions for determining fibre quality traits in sugarcane
Publications:
Association of gene expression with biomass content and composition in sugarcane
Hoang, Nam V., Furtado, Agnelo, O'Keeffe, Angela J., Botha, Frederik C. and Henry, Robert J. (2017). Association of gene expression with biomass content and composition in sugarcane. PLoS One 12 (8) e0183417.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183417
Identification of a long non-coding RNA gene, growth hormone secretagogue receptor opposite strand, which stimulates cell migration in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines
Whiteside, Eliza J., Seim, Inge, Pauli, Jana P., O'Keeffe, Angela J., Thomas, Patrick B., Carter, Shea L., Walpole, Carina M., Fung, Jenny N. T., Josh, Peter, Herington, Adrian C. and Chopin, Lisa K. (2013). Identification of a long non-coding RNA gene, growth hormone secretagogue receptor opposite strand, which stimulates cell migration in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. International Journal of Oncology 43 (2) 566-574.
https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2013.1969
A longitudinal study of the impact of chronic psychological stress on health-related quality of life and clinical biomarkers: Protocol for the Australian Healthy Aging of Women Study
Seib, Charrlotte, Whiteside, Eliza, Humphreys, Janice, Lee, Kathryn, Thomas, Patrick, Chopin, Lisa, Crisp, Gabrielle, O'Keeffe, Angela, Kimlin, Michael, Stacey, Andrew and Anderson, Debra (2014). A longitudinal study of the impact of chronic psychological stress on health-related quality of life and clinical biomarkers: Protocol for the Australian Healthy Aging of Women Study. BMC Public Health 14 (1) .
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-9
Multi-species sequence comparison reveals conservation of ghrelin gene-derived splice variants encoding a truncated ghrelin peptide
Seim, Inge, Jeffery, Penny L., Thomas, Patrick B., Walpole, Carina M., Maugham, Michelle, Fung, Jenny N. T., Yap, Pei-Yi, O'Keeffe, Angela J., Lai, John, Whiteside, Eliza J., Herington, Adrian C. and Chopin, Lisa K. (2016). Multi-species sequence comparison reveals conservation of ghrelin gene-derived splice variants encoding a truncated ghrelin peptide. Endocrine 52 (3) 609-617.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-015-0848-7