The University of Sydney
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Associate Professor Brett Hambly

E: brett.hambly@bosch.org.au
T: +61 2 9351 3059
F: +61 2 9351 3429
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D06 - Blackburn Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Biographical details

1980-81 Intern and Resident Medical Officer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
1982-84 Relief Staff - Medical, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
1982-84 Life Insurance Medical Research Fund of Australia & New Zealand Research Scholar (Candidate for Ph.D.), Department of Anatomy, University of Sydney
1984-86 Temporary Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, University of Sydney
1987-88 NHMRC CJ Martin Post-doctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
1989-90 NHMRC CJ Martin Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Anatomy, Univ Sydney
1991 NHMRC Senior Research Officer, Department of Anatomy, University of Sydney
1992-93 Lecturer, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney
1994-02 Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney
2003- Associate Professor, School Medical Science - Pathology Discipline, Univ Sydney
2003- Adjunct Assoc Professor, Biology (Molec Biophysics), Florida State Univ, Tallahassee

Research interests

My research focuses on cardiovascular disease, in particular familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and atherosclerosis.

Current national competitive grants

2009

A temporal profile of signalling via phosphorylation during myocardial ischemia / reperfusion injury
NHMRC Project Grants $355,050 over 3 years

Publications

2008

Wu, H, Craft, M, Wang, P, Wyburn, K, Chen, G, Ma, J, Hambly, B, Chadban, S. IL-18 Contributes to Renal Damage after Ischemia-Reperfusion. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 2008; 19:2331-41
Ko, H, Hambly, B, Eris, J, Levidiotis, V, Wyburn, K, Wu, H, Chadban, S, Yin, J. Dentritic cell derived IL-18 production is inhibited by rapamycin and sanglifehrin A, but not cyclosporine A. Transplant immunology. 2008; 20:99-105
Stefani, M, Tsubakihara, M, Allen, P, Macdonald, P, dos Remedios, C. Actin and its binding proteins in heart failure. In: Actin-binding proteins and disease. United Kingdom: Springer 2008. p. 318-334.
Hambly, B, Oakley, C, Fajer, P. Protein comparative sequence analysis and computer modeling. Methods in molecular medicine. 2008; 141:245-56
Hambly, B, Oakley, C, Fajer, P. Protein Comparative Sequence Analysis and Computer Modeling. In: Clinical Bioinformatics. New Jersey, USA: Humana Press Inc. 2008. p. 245-256.
Tavakoli, N, Hambly, B, Sullivan, D, Bao, S. Forkhead box protein 3: Essential immune regulatory role. The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology. 2008; 40:2369-73

2007

Bao, S, Hambly, B, Harris, A, Tavakoli, N. Interferon-gamma contributes to neointimal proliferation following arterial angioplasty in a mouse model. ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPPLEMENTS. 2007; 8:65-66
Harris, A, Bao, S, Hambly, B, Prabhu, K. Absence of toll-like receptor 4 increases macrophage population and collagen content in an endothelial denudation mouse model of neointimal proliferation. ATHEROSCLEROSIS SUPPLEMENTS. 2007; 8:229-229
Fajer, P, Kekic, M, Hambly, B, Hwang, J, Oakley, C, Brown, L. F-actin binding to the N-terminal region of cardiac myosin binding protein-C. BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2007; Supp:489A-489A
Fang, Y, Bao, S, Hambly, B, Gong, S, Xu, Y. Impaired cutaneous wound healing in granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor knockout mice. BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY. 2007; 157:458-465
Oakley, C, Chamoun, J, Brown, L, Hambly, B. Myosin binding protein-C: Enigmatic regulator of cardiac contraction. The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology. 2007; 39:2161-6

2006

White, M, Tchen, A, McCarron, H, Hambly, B, Jeremy, R, Cordwell, S. Proteomics of ischemia and reperfusion injuries in rabbit myocardium with and without intervention by an oxygen-free radical scavenger. Proteomics. 2006; 6:6221-33
Shen, J, White, M, Husband, A, Hambly, B, Bao, S. Phytoestrogen derivatives differentially inhibit arterial neointimal proliferation in a mouse model. European journal of pharmacology. 2006; 548:123-8
Ko, H, Yin, J, Hambly, B, Wyburn, K, Wu, H, Chadban, S, Eris, J. Rapamycin and Sanglifehrin A can inhibit interleukin-18 production from dendritic cells in vitro and in vivo. Immunology and Cell Biology. 2006; 84:A26-A26
Yin, J, Ko, H, Wyburn, K, Wu, H, Hambly, B, Chadban, S, Eris, J. The role of IL-12 family cytokines in chronic allograft nephropathy. Immunology and Cell Biology. 2006; 84:A12-A12
Harris, A, Shen, J, Hambly, B, Bao, S. Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor contributes to restenosis following experimental endothelial denudation. Atherosclerosis Supplements. 2006; 7:250-250
White, M, Hambly, B, Jeremy, R, Cordwell, S. Ischemia-specific phosphorylation and myofilament translocation of heat shock protein 27 precedes alpha B-crystallin and occurs independently of reactive oxygen species in rabbit myocardium. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology. 2006; 40:761-74
McLachlan, C, Hambly, B, Almsherqi, Z, El Oakley, R, McGuire, M. Transfer of mouse embryonic stem cells to sheep myocardium. Lancet. 2006; 367:301-302

2005

Ko, H, Yin, J, Hambly, B, Wyburn, K, Wu, H, Chadban, S, Eris, J. Immunosuppressants rapamycin and sanglifehrin A inhibit bioactive IL-18 production by dendritic. Immunology and Cell Biology. 2005; 83:A32-A32
White, M, Cordwell, S, McCarron, H, Prasan, A, Craft, G, Hambly, B, Jeremy, R. Proteomics of ischemia/reperfusion injury in rabbit myocardium reveals alterations to proteins of essential functional systems. Proteomics. 2005; 5:1395-410
Ivanova, E, Onyshchenko, O, Christen, R, Zhukova, N, Lysenko, A, Shevchenko, L, Buljan, V, Hambly, B, Kiprianova, E. Oceanimonas smirnovii sp. nov., a novel organism isolated from the Black Sea. Systematic and applied microbiology. 2005; 28:131-6
Hambly, B, White, M, Cordwell, S, Tchen, A, McCarron, H, Jeremy, R. Reversible ischemia/reperfusion injury correlates with troponin C modification. Biophysical Journal. 2005; 88:315A-315A

2004

Baumann, B, Liang, H, Sale, K, Hambly, B, Fajer, P. Myosin regulatory domain orientation in skeletal muscle fibers: application of novel electron paramagnetic resonance spectral decomposition and molecular modeling methods. Biophysical journal. 2004; 86:3030-41
Oakley, C, Hambly, B, Curmi, P, Brown, L. Myosin binding protein C: structural abnormalities in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Cell research. 2004; 14:95-110
Hambly, B, Liang, H, Sale, K, Baumann, B, Fajer, P. Application of novel EPR and molecular modeling methods to spectroscopic determination of the S1 RLC orientation in muscle fibers. 48th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. 2004; Feb 14-18, 2004 Baltimore USA; 2004
Hambly, B, Oakley, C, Brown, L, Curmi, P. Structural analysis of myosin binding protein-C. 48th Annual Meeting of the US Biophysical Society. 2004; Feb 14-18, 2004 Baltimore USA; 2004
Hambly, B, White, M, Cordwell, S, McCarron, H, Tchen, A, Jeremy, R. Oxygen free radical damage to essential components of the oxidative phosphorylation pathway. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2004; 43:254A
Hambly, B, White, M, Cordwell, S, McCarron, H, Tchen, A, Jeremy, R. Oxygen free radical scavengers prevent damage to proteins of the sarcomere initiated by reversible ischemia/reperfusion injury. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2004; 43:255A
Hambly, B, Harris, A, Shen, J, Bao, S. Neointimal proliferation is reduced in GM-CSF ko mice following arterial injury. American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2004. 2004; New Orleans, Nov 7-10, 2004; 2004
Hambly, B, White, M, Cordwell, S, Tchen, A, McCarron, H, Jeremy, R. Modifications to troponin C with brief ischemia/reperfusion injury. American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2004. 2004; New Orleans, Nov 7-10, 2004; 2004

2003

McLachlan, C, Jusuf, P, Rummery, N, Kummerfeld, S, Hambly, B, McGuire, M, Turner, V. Tyramide signal amplification enhances the detectable distribution of connexin-43 positive gap junctions across the ventricular wall of the rabbit heart. Archives of histology and cytology. 2003; 66:359-65
Yin, J, Hambly, B, Bao, S, Painter, D, Bishop, G, Eris, J. Expression of growth arrest-specific gene 6 and its receptors in dysfunctional human renal allografts. Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation. 2003; 16:681-8
White, M, Cordwell, S, McCarron, H, Tchen, A, Hambly, B, Jeremy, R. Modifications of myosin-regulatory light chain correlate with function of stunned myocardium. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology. 2003; 35:833-40

2002

Prasan, A, McCarron, H, Hambly, B, Fermanis, G, Sullivan, D, Jeremy, R. Effect of treatment on ventricular function and troponin I proteolysis in reperfused myocardium. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology. 2002; 34:401-11
Yin, J, Pilmore, H, Yan, Y, McCaughan, G, Bishop, G, Hambly, B, Eris, J. Expression of growth arrest-specific gene 6 and its receptors in a rat model of chronic renal transplant rejection. Transplantation. 2002; 73:657-60
Dedova, I, Dedov, V, Nosworthy, N, Hambly, B, dos Remedios, C. Cofilin and DNase 1 affect the conformation of the small domain of actin. Biophysical Journal. 2002; 82:3134-3143
Prasan, A, McCarron, H, White, M, McLennan, S, Tchen, A, Hambly, B, Jeremy, R. Duration of ischaemia determines matrix metalloproteinase-2-activation in the reperfused rabbit head. Proteomics. 2002; 2:1204-1210
Brown, L, Singh, L, Sale, K, Yu, B, Trent, R, Fajer, P, Hambly, B. Functional and spectroscopic studies of a familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation in Motif X of cardiac myosin binding protein-C. European Biophysics Journal With Biophysics Letters. 2002; 31:400-408

2001

Brown, L, Klonis, N, Sawyer, W, Fajer, P, Hambly, B. Independent movement of the regulatory and catalytic domains of myosin heads revealed by phosphorescence anisotropy. Biochemistry. 2001; 40:8283-91
Baumann, B, Hambly, B, Hideg, K, Fajer, P. The Regulatory Domain of the Myosin Head Behaves as a Rigid Lever. Biochemistry. 2001; 276:11135-11142

2000

Mclachlan, C, Jusuf, P, McGuire, M, Yin, J, Driussi, C, Hambly, B. A semi-quantitative PCR method for the detection of low levels if apoptotic DNA fragmentation in a heart failure model. Japanese Journal of Physiology. 2000; 50:281-284
Yin, J, Chaufour, X, Mclachlan, C, McGuire, M, White, G, King, N, Hambly, B. Apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells induced by cholesterol and its oxides in vitro and in vivo. Atherosclerosis. 2000; 148(2):365-374
Mclachlan, C, Jelinek, H, Kummerfeld, S, Rummery, N, Jusuf, P, Hambly, B, McGuire, M. Cross-sectional infarct edge jaggedness does not influence ventricular electrical stability in a rabbit model of late myocardial infarct healing. Redox Report. 2000; 5(2/3):122-123
Hambly, B, Walsh, J, dos Remedios, C. Electrophoresis - a multidisciplinary and unifying technology. Electrophoresis. 2000; 21:3781-3783
Yin, J, Mclachlan, C, Chaufour, X, McGuire, M, White, G, Turner, V, King, N, Hambly, B. Growth arrest-specific gene 6 expression in proliferating rabbit vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro and in vivo. Electrophoresis. 2000; 21:3851-3856
Pulvirenti, T, Yin, J, Chaufour, X, Mclachlan, C, Hambly, B, Bennett, M, Barden, J. P2X (purinergic) receptor redistribution in rabbit aorta following injury to endothelial cells and cholesterol feeding. Journal of Neurocytology. 2000; 29:623-631
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