University of Tasmania, Australia

Associate Professor

BSc(Hons)(Monash), PhD(UTAS), ARCA, FFSc(RCPA)

Teaching Responsibilities

Unit coordinator

• CJA314 - Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Units

• CAM101 - Foundations of Medicine 1
• CAM426 - Medical Research 1
• CAM427 - Medical Research 2
• CAM428 - Medical Research 3
• CAM429 - Medical Research 4
• CJA212 - Basic Patholgical Processes and Immunity
• CJA314 - Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Publications

• Brown, G. K., Kreiss, A., Lyons, A. B., & Woods, G. M. (2011). Natural killer cell mediated cytotoxic responses in the Tasmanian devil. PL o S One, 6(9).
• Kreiss, A., Cheng, Y., Kimble, F., Wells, B., Donovan, S., Belov, K., & Woods, G. M. (2011). Allorecognition in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), an endangered marsupial species with limited genetic diversity. PL o S One, 6(7).
• Miller, W., Hayes, V. M., Ratan, A., Peterson, D. C., Wittekindt, N. E., Miller, J., Walenz, B., Knight, J., Qi, J., Zhao, F., Wang, Q., Bedoya-Reina, O. C., Katiyar, N., Tomsho, L. P., McClellan Kasson, L., Hardie, R.-A., Woodbridge, P., Tindall, E. A., Frost Bertelsen, M., Dixon, D., Pyecroft, S., Helgen, K. M., Lesk, A. M., Pringle, T. H., Patterson, N., Zhang, Y., Kreiss, A., Woods, G. M., Jones, M., & Schuster, S. C. (2011). Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered marsupial Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil). National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America. Proceedings, 108(30), 12348-12353.
• Tovar, C., Obendorf, D., Murchison, E. P., Papenfuss, A. T., Kreiss, A., & Woods, G. M. (2011). Tumor-specific diagnostic marker for transmissible facial tumors of Tasmanian devils: Immunohistochemistry studies. Veterinary Pathology, 48(6), 1195-1203.
• Murchison, E. P., Tovar, C., Hsu, A., Bender, H. S., Kheradpour, P., Rebbeck, C., Obendorf, D., Conlan, C., Bahlo, M., Blizzard, C. A., Pyecroft, S., Kreiss, A., Kellis, M., Stark, A., Harkins, T. T., Graves, J. A., Woods, G. M., Hannon, G. J. & Papenfuss, A. T. (2010). The Tasmanian devil transcriptome reveals Schwann cell origins of a clonally transmissible cancer. Science, 327(5961), 84-87.
• Siddle, H. V., Kreiss, A., Eldridge, M. D. B., Noonan, E., Clarke, C. J., Pyecroft, S., Woods, G. M., & Belov, K. (2007). Transmission of a fatal clonal tumor by biting occurs due to depleted MHC diversity in a threatened carnivorous marsupial. National Academy of Sciences Proceedings (USA), 104(41), 16221-16226.

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Additional Information

Research Interests

• Evaluation of the ability of vitamin D and metallothionein to protect against UV-radiation induced skin cancer
• Long term effects of UV-radiation on the developing skin immune system
• The immunological aspects of Devil Facial Tumour Disease

Current and Supervised Projects

• Vitamin D and the Skin Immune System
• Mobilization of human haematopoietic stem cells
• Skin immune system: from birth to maturity
• Consequences of exposure to ultraviolet radiation during the neonatal period