Sarah Preston
Lecturer
Biomedical and veterinary science
University of Ballarat
Australia
Biography
I have a passion for research and education in the control of infectious diseases in agricultural animals and this is largely driven by my background growing up in a rural setting on a sheep/cattle farm. I received my science qualifications (B.Sci Honours) at Monash University and followed on with a PhD investigating the control of parasitic worm infections in sheep using immune markers of parasitic resistance. From 2014-2016 I worked at the Faculty of Veterinary and Agriculture Sciences at the University of Melbourne as a postdoctoral researcher in the area of drug discovery for parasitic diseases. I am now looking forward to my new career direction as a lecturer for the Bachelor of Veterinary and wildlife Sciences at Federation University whilst still pursuing research in the area of worm control for agricultural animals.
Research Interest
I am interested in the areas of research relating to the control of diseases such as gastrointestinal nematodes in humans and livestock. Particularly, I am interested in the following areas; Drug discovery and development for human and veterinary parasitic worms Development of assays to screen for new anthelmintics and to diagnose anthelmintic resistant parasites Understanding the molecular interaction between the host immune response and pathogens Diagnostic development for the emergence of new and existing diseases
Publications
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Preston S, Jabbar A, Nowell C, Joachim A, Ruttkowski B, Cardno T, Hofmann A, Gasser RB. 2016. Practical and low cost whole-organism motility assay: A step-by-step protocol. Molecular and Cellular Probes, 30(1),13-17
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Preston S, Luo J, Zhang Y, Jabbar A, Crawford S, Baell J, Hofmann A, Hu M, Zhou HB, Gasser RB. 2016. Selenophene and thiophene-core estrogen receptor ligands that inhibit motility and development of parasitic stages of Haemonchus contortus. Parasite Vectors. 16, 9(1):346.
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Kumarasingha R, Karpe AV, Preston S, Yeo TC, Lim DS, Tu CL, Luu J, Simpson KJ, Shaw JM, Gasser RB, Beale DJ, Morrison PD, Palombo EA, Boag PR. Metabolic profiling and in vitro assessment of anthelmintic fractions of Picria fel-terrae Lour. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2016 Aug 26;6(3):171-178.
