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Research Funding Provided by: Australian Government
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Network Member Profile

Dr Graham Lieschke

Department:
Cancer and Haematology Division

Organisation:
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Address:
1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3050

Telephone: 03 9342 8633 Facsimile: 03 9347 0852

Email: lieschke@wehi.edu.au

Web Address

Current Field of Study

  • Haemopoiesis, Leukaemogenesis

Australian Collaborators

  • Dr Joan Heath, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Parkville, VIC
  • Dr Graham Mann, Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, NSW
  • Dr Stephen Nutt, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, VIC
  • Dr Benjamin Kile, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, VIC

International Collaborators

  • Dr Leonard Zon, Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA
  • Dr Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
  • Dr Andrew Oates, Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
  • Dr Philip Crosier, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Dr Victoria Prince, University of Chicago, Chicago USA
  • Dr David Kimelman, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Facilities

  • Zebrafish Research Aquarium

Lab Members

Dr Graham Lieschke

Head of the Lab

Dr Judy Layton

Senior Investigator / Senior Scientist

Mr John Hayman

Research Assistant

Mr Luke Kapitany

Research Assistant

Ms Sony Varma

Research Assistant

Dr Duncan Carradice PhD Student

Mr Luke Pase

PhD Student

Mr Felix Ellett PhD Student

 

Recent Grant Income

Description

CIs

Type of Grant

Year

Income p.a.

Senior Research Fellowship Lieschke GJ NHMRC Research Fellowship 2007-2011 $116,750
Discovery and analysis of vertebrate intestinal development genes that may play a role in colon cancer Heath JK, Lieschke GJ, Ernst M NHMRC Project Grant 2007-2010 $186,000-176,000
Role of the microRNA miR144 in haemopoiesis in vivo Lieschke GJ NHMRC Project Grant 2007-2009 $125,625
Australian Centre for Vertebrate Mutation Detection (ACVMD) Hilton D, Bertram E, Currie P, Forrest S, Heath J, Kile B, Lieschke G, O'Bryan M     $1,600,000 over 5 years; $450,00-250,000 pa
Congenital myeloid failure syndromes in mutant zebrafish Lieschke GJ NIH R01 Grant 2004-2009 $ US270,000

Recent Publications

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Mannering SI, Zhan Y, Gilbertson B, LIESCHKE GJ, Cheers C. T lymphocytes from G-CSF-/- mice produce large quantities of IFNγ in a chronic infection model. Immunology 101(1):132-9, 2000.

2. Liao EC, Paw BH, Peters LL, Zapata A, Pratt SJ, Do CP, LIESCHKE G, Zon LI. Hereditary spherocytosis in zebrafish riesling illustrates evolution of erythroid β-spectrin structure, and function in red cell morphogenesis and membrane stability. Development 127:5123-5132, 2000.

3. Sun X, Layton JE, Elefanty A, LIESCHKE GJ. Comparison of effects of the tyrosine kinase inhibitors AG957, AG490 and STI571 on BCR-ABL-expressing cells, demonstrating synergy between AG490 and STI571. Blood, 97(7);2008-2015, 2001.

4. LIESCHKE GJ, Oates AC, Crowhurst MO, Ward AC, Layton JE. Morphological and functional characterization of granulocytes and macrophages in embryonic and adult zebrafish. Blood, 98(10);3087-3096, 2001.

5. Akbarzadeh S, McPhee DOM, Alexander WS, LIESCHKE GJ, Layton JE. Tyrosine residues of the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor transmit proliferation and differentiation signals in murine bone marrow cells. Blood, 99(3);879-887, 2002.

6. LIESCHKE GJ, Oates AC, Paw BH, Thompson MA, Hall NE, Ward AC, Ho RK, Zon LI, Layton JE. Zebrafish SPI-1 (PU.1) marks a site of myeloid development independent of primitive erythropoiesis; implications for axial patterning. Developmental Biology, 246(2):274-295, 2002.

7. Ward AC, McPhee DO, Condron MM, Varma S, Cody SH, Onnebo SMN, Paw BH, Zon LI, LIESCHKE GJ. The zebrafish spi1 promoter drives myeloid-specific expression in stable transgenic fish. Blood. 102(9):3238-3240, 2003.

8. Mawdsley DJ, Cooper HM, LIESCHKE GJ, Cody SH, Heath JK. The netrin receptor, neogenin, is required for neural tube formation and somitogenesis in zebrafish. Developmental Biology , 269:302-315, 2004.

9. Hogan BM, Hunter MP, Oates AC, Crowhurst MO, Hall NE, Heath JK, Prince VE, LIESCHKE GJ. Zebrafish gcm2 is required for gill filament budding from pharyngeal ectoderm. Developmental Biology , 276(2):508-522, 2005.

10. Hogan BM, Danks JA, Layton JE, Hall NE, Heath JK, LIESCHKE GJ. Duplicate zebrafish pth genes are expressed in the lateral line and central nervous system during embryogenesis. Endocrinology, 146(2):547-551, 2005. [with Editorial comment 146(2):544-546]

11. Onnebo SMN, Condron MM, McPhee DO, LIESCHKE GJ, Ward AC. Hematopoietic perturbation in zebrafish expressing a tel-jak2a fusion. Experimental Hematology, 33(2):182-188, 2005.

12. Hogan BM, Layton JE, Pyati UJ, Nutt SL, Hayman JW, Varma S, Heath JK, Kimelman D, LIESCHKE GJ. Specification of the primitive myeloid precursor pool requires signaling through Alk8 in zebrafish. Current Biology, 16(5):506-511, 2006.

13. Hogan BM, Pase L, Hall NE, LIESCHKE GJ. Characterisation of duplicate zinc finger like 2 erythroid precursor genes in zebrafish. Development, Genes and Evolution, 216(9):523-529, 2006.

14. Kinna G, Kolle G, Carter A, Key B, Perkins A, LIESCHKE GJ, Little MH. Knockdown of zebrafish crim1 results in defects in somite and vascular development. Mechanisms of Development, 123(4):277-287, 2006.

15. Yoong S, O'Connell B, Soanes A, Crowhurst MO, LIESCHKE GJ, Ward AC. Characterisation of the zebrafish matrix metalloproteinase 9 gene and its developmental expression pattern Gene Expression Patterns, in press, 2006.

16. Chee LCY, Fahey V, Juneja S, LIESCHKE GJ, Szer J. Relapsed blastic natural killer cell leukaemia with splenic rupture. British Journal of Haematology, 2006:135;2. (Case report).

REVIEWS

LIESCHKE GJ. Zebrafish – an emerging genetic model for the study of cytokines and hematopoiesis in the era of functional genomics. International Journal of Hematology (invited review for “Progress in Hematology” series) 73:23-31, 2001.

Szer J, LIESCHKE GJ. Small molecule: large hopes. Internal Medicine Journal (invited editorial), 31:382-383, 2001.

Crowhurst MO, Layton JE, LIESCHKE GJ. Developmental biology of zebrafish myeloid cells. International Journal of Developmental Biology (invited contribution) 46:483-492, 2002.

Ward AC, LIESCHKE GJ. The zebrafish as a model system for human disease. Frontiers in Bioscience 7;d827-833, 2002. (Invited review).

Sun X, LIESCHKE GJ. Abnormal protein tyrosine kinases associated with human haematological malignancies. Chinese Journal of Cancer Research 14(2):79-83, 2002.

LIESCHKE GJ. Animal models of hematopoietic growth factor perturbations in physiology and pathology. In: Morstyn G, Foote MA, LIESCHKE GJ (eds). Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Oncology: Basic Science and Clinical Therapeutics. Part of the Cancer Drug Discovery and Development series (Beverly A Teicher, series editor). Humana Press. Chapter 2, pp11-44, 2004.

LIESCHKE GJ. Fluorescent neutrophils throw a spotlight on inflammation. Blood, in press, 2006

BOOK

18. Morstyn G, Foote MA, LIESCHKE GJ (eds). Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Oncology: Basic Science and Clinical Therapeutics. Part of the Cancer Drug Discovery and Development series (Beverly A Teicher, series editor). Humana Press, 2004.