Dr Sebastien Darchen

Biography

I started my research career as Science and Engineering Research Council (now Science and Engineering Research Board)-funded Ph.D. scholar in the Biochemistry Department at the Queen’s Medical Centre at the University of Nottingham, UK, working on the purification of the D2-dopamine receptor from bovine brain. I then moved to Australia and found a position as a Research officer at the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Queensland working on acetaldehyde modification of proteins in alcohol abuse. The role of protein modification in the toxicity of ethanol and other compounds such as clinical drugs, together with associated immune phenomena, has been my major research focus since that time. In 1992, I received a Postdoctoral Research fellowship from The University of Queensland to continue my work in the Department of Biochemistry. Later, in 1994 I received an NHMRC grant to continue my work on ethanol toxicity. In 1996 I was appointed as an Associate Lecturer in Biochemistry; in 1999 I was promoted to Lecturer, and in 2010 to Senior Lecturer. I was also appointed Director of Molecular Biology postgraduate Coursework programs in 2007. Part of my role as director of Postgraduate Coursework in Molecular Biology is to place and mentor up to 20 students each semester in research projects in various laboratories throughout the university, including my own. I have also successfully graduated 10 honours students and 6 doctoral students.

Research Interest

• Agricultural Safety and Health • Air Pollution Exposures • Air Quality Monitoring • • Pesticides • Polycyclic hydrocarbons • Public policy • Real-time detection and sampling of contaminants • Remote sensing and geospatial analysis • Risk assessment for workplace and community hazards • Adam, Kerry, Gibson, Libby and Cook, Margaret (2016