Dr Dan Dias
Lecturer
Biomedical Science
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
"Dr. Dias is a lecturer within the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT University. Prior to this, he was one of the team leaders of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) metabolomics services at Metabolomics Australia, The University of Melbourne. He was also involved in the development of GC-MS as well as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) protocols, sample preparation methodologies, evaluation of data, interpretation and bioinformatics of results for clients. In 2009, he was offered a post-doctoral position within the School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne in analytical wine chemistry. Several findings were identified including: the critical wavelengths of light that led to pigment production, separation of light and thermal effects on pigment production, the identification of iron(III) tartrate as the photoactive species responsible for the photo-activation and the relationship between bottle colour and weight on light and thermal induced changes."
Research Interest
Expertise in the fields of natural products chemistry,
Publications
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 Beta-glucan-depleted, glycopeptide-rich extracts from Brewer's and Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) lower interferon-gamma production by stimulated human blood cells in vitroÂ
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 Metal and metalloid containing natural products and a brief overview of their applications in biology, biotechnology and biomedicineÂ
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 Mapping carbon fate during bleaching in a model cnidarian symbiosis: the application of 13C metabolomics
