Congratulations to PhD graduates, Alex and Adel!
A huge congratulations to Dr Alex Wong and Dr Adel Alharbi, who both graduated today!
Dr Alex Wong completed an excellent thesis concerning the role of intron retention in acute myeloid leukaemia. Warmest congratulations also to our former post doc, Dr Justin Wong, for being the lead supervisor.
Publications:
Splice and Dice: Intronic microRNAs, Splicing and Cancer. Wong ACH, Rasko, JEJ. (2021) Biomedicines. 9(9), 1268
We skip to work: alternative splicing in normal and malignant myelopoiesis. Wong ACH, Rasko JEJ, Wong JJ (2018) Leukemia. 32(5):1081-1093
Dr Adel Alharbi’s PhD research involved examining the role of CTCF and ZRANB2 in alternative splicing at the transcriptomic and proteomic levels. He was co-supervised by Prof John Rasko, A/Prof Ulf Schmitz and Dr. Chuck Bailey.
Publications:
CTCF as a regulator of alternative splicing: new tricks for an old player. Alharbi AB, Schmitz U, Bailey CG, Rasko JEJ. (2021) Nucleic Acids Research. 49(14):7825-7838
Ctcf haploinsufficiency mediates intron retention in a tissue-specific manner. Alharbi AB, Schmitz U, Marshall AD, Vanichkina D, Nagarajah R, Vellozzi M, Wong JJ, Bailey CG, Rasko JEJ. (2020) RNA Biology. 18(1):93-103
