Bernadette Hawkins Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Laboratory Manager for the Therapeutics Research Group - Preparation and implementation of standard operating procedures - Ensuring the laboratory’s compliance with all relevant legislation with respect to Workplace Health and Safety, chemical and drug storage, and experimental proceduresWorkplace Health and Safety Representative - Preparation and maintenance of chemical and drug manifest for the laboratory - Ensuring that all work performed and facilities in the laboratory fall within WH&S guidelinesDesign, synthesis and testing of potential anti-thrombotic agents - Rational drug design, based on current knowledge of anti-thrombotics - Searching literature to ensure that proposed compounds are either novel, or have not already been suggested as anti-thrombotics, so that the work is patentable - Synthesis of the proposed compounds, followed by characterization using standard methods such as mass spectrometry (MS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared spectroscopy (IR) and thin layer chromatography (TLC) - Testing of synthesized compounds for gastric toxicity, hepatic extraction and platelet aggregation

Brisbane, Australia

Studying RNA-protein interactions - Production and purification of RNA - Production and purification of proteins - Involved some work in research labs in Cambridge and Sydney - HPLC, Mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonanceAssociate supervisor of post-graduate studentsConvenor of departmental seminar program, 2000Successfully obtained grant from The University of Queensland, used to employ RA for 6 monthsTutored 3rd year students for structural biology subject

Leicester, United Kingdom

Protein expression using E. coli - Purification of proteins using ion exchange, gel filtration, immobilized metal affinity columns, FPLC - SDS-PAGEProtein-protein interactions - Studied using nuclear magnetic resonance, and surface plasmon resonance (BIAcore)Supervision of post-graduate students in the labPresented work at conference in Colorado, USA

Brisbane, Australia

Glaxo-Wellcome funded project to develop generic strategies for the discovery of novel, pharmaceutically relevant molecules that mimic bioactive peptides and proteins.My role was to undertake structural studies of cyclic pentapeptides using: - Nuclear magnetic resonance - Computational calculations using UNIX-based software

Mip

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd)

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry, Honours