Proteomics Australia

Professor Jeff Gorman is Head of the Protein Discovery Centre at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research and holds adjunct Professorial appointments at the University of Queensland, the Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University.

Jeff obtained both BSc and PhD qualifications from the University of Melbourne and has close to 40 years of experience in protein research, including a Fogarty Fellowship at the US National Institutes of Health and 22 years of employment within various Divisions of the CSIRO. Throughout his career, he has established several infrastructure centres for protein analysis. He was responsible for the purchase of the first mass spectrometer in Australia solely for the purpose of protein analysis in 1984 and has made several other pioneering mass spectrometer purchases, including the first high-performance reflectron MALDI-TOF and ESI-LTQ-Orbitrap instruments in Australia.

Jeff’s major personal research experiences have included enzymes of the blood coagulation system, viral protein structure and function, post-translational modification analysis and the development of specific technical approaches for the analysis of proteins. He collaborates extensively and has made substantial contributions to seminal discoveries involving regulation of oxygen sensing and other signal-activated transcriptional pathways by post-translational modifications.

His current personal research interests involve a significant international and national collaboration on the mechanisms by which the serious paediatric respiratory pathogen, respiratory syncytial virus, evades the host cell antiviral defences to cause high levels of morbidity and mortality in children. Jeff is on the Editorial Boards of several international protein science and proteomics journals, including the leading Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.

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