Rodney Lui

Place and Date of Birth

• Sydney, Australia on 26th of March, 1981

Qualifications

• HSC, Patrician Brothers College Fairfield, 1998
• B.Sc. (Hons) at the University of Sydney, 2003
• Currently enrolled in Ph.D. in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney.

Awards

• Vacation Scholarship to work at the Muscle Research Unit, funded by the Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Sydney
  
• Applied Biosystems Travel Students Award at Australiasian Electrophoresis and Proteomics Society (AEPS) annual conference held in Melbourne, Australia (September, 2003) Sean Lal, Paul Bannon, Lisa Nguyen, Gareth Denyer and Cris dos Remedios. Antibody arrays and cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
• Departmental Postgraduate Scholarship from the Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Sydney
  
• Australian Red Cross Blood Services (ARCBS) Postgraduate Scholarship
• National Heart Foundation of Australia Travel Scholarship
  
• Edith Mary Rose Fellowship awarded by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
  
• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Scholarship
• NHMRC Travelling Award for Research Training at Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Baltimore, MD, USA
  

Abstracts and Presentations

• Presentation at the Australiasian Electrophoresis and Proteomics Society (AEPS) annual conference held in Melbourne, Australia (June, 2003) Sean Lal, Paul Bannon, Lisa Nguyen, Gareth Denyer and Cris dos Remedios. Antibody arrays and cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
  
• Abstract for the International Society for Heart Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia (April, 2004). Rodney Lui, Sean Lal, Lisa Nguyen, Peter Macdonald, Gareth Denyer and Cris dos Remedios. Increases in leukocyte CD antigen expression during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients undergoing heart transplantation.
  
• Abstract for the European Muscle Conference, Isola d'Elba, Italy (May, 2004). Rodney Lui, Sean Lal, Lisa Nguyen, Peter Macdonald, Gareth Denyer and Cris dos Remedios. Increases in leukocyte CD antigen expression during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients undergoing heart transplantation. (Presented by Professor Cris dos Remedios, September, 2004)
• Presentations at the International Society for Heart Research (18th International World Congress), Brisbane, Australia (August, 2004). Rodney Lui, Sean Lal, Lisa Nguyen, Peter Macdonald, Gareth Denyer and Cris dos Remedios. Increases in leukocyte CD antigen expression during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients undergoing heart transplantation.
• Presentation for the Smart Materials, Nano- and Micro-Smart Systems (SPIE) Conference, NSW, Australia (December, 2004). Devin Ramdutt, Rodney Lui, Rod W. Boswell, Cristobal G. dos Remedios, Christine Charles, Marcela M. Bilek, David R. McKenzie and Kerrie Davies. Development of the Nanotiter Plate for use in Antibody and Cell Array Technologies.
• Presentation for the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR - Northern American Section), New Orleans, LA, USA, (May, 2005). Rodney Lui, Peter Macdonald, Chris Hayward and Cristobal G. dos Remedios. Analysing inflammation in heart failure using microarray platforms .
• Presentation at the International Society for Heart Research (19th International World Congress), Bologna, Italy (June, 2007). Rodney Lui, Peter Macdonald, Christopher Hayward and Cris dos Remedios. Proteomic analysis of leukocyte membrane proteins from human heart failure patients using an antibody microarray platform.

Experiences

• Part-time tutor with the Department of Anatomy and Histology at the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  
• Part-time tutor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Postgraduate organisation committee member of the Institute for Biomedical  Research and Bosch Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  
• Research training at the Australian Red Cross Blood Services (ARCBS), Sydney, NSW, Australia
  
• Research training at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHBLI) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
  

Research Interests

• I am interested in the inflammatory responses that are predominant in the many types of human cardiovascular diseases. We are looking at whether if there are certain immunological responses that are characteristic of particular human heart diseases using the latest proteomics tools such as antibody microarrays, two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE), two-dimensional liquid chromotography (2D-LC) and mass spectrometry (MS). Furthermore, we are also interested in looking at the variability of certain immunological proteins that are expressed within a normal population of blood donors.

Publications

• Lal, S.P., Lui, R., Nguyen, L., Macdonald, P. Denyer, G. and dos Remedios, C. G. (2004) Increases in leukocyte CD antigen expression during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients undergoing heart transplantation. Proteomics 4(7):1918-26.
• Lui, R., Lal, S.P., Nguyen, L., Macdonald, P., Denyer, G. and dos Remedios, C.G. (2004) Increases in leukocyte CD antigen expression during cardiopulmonary bypass in patients undergoing heart transplantation. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 37(1): 220-221.
• Ramdutt, D., Lui, R., Boswell, R. W., dos Remedios, C.G., Charles, C.,  Bilek, M. and McKenzie, M. (2004). Development of the Nanotiter Plate for use in Antibody and Cell Array Technologies. SPIE - Biomedical Applications of Micro- and Nano-engineering. 5651: 409-417.
• Lui, R., Tsubakihara, M., Macdonald, P., Hayward, C. and dos Remedios. C. G. (2005) Analysing inflammation in heart failure using microarray platforms. Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 38(5): 854-855.
  
• Lui, R., Macdonald, P., Hayward, C., and dos Remedios, C. G. Immunophenotyping human heart failure using cluster of differentiation antibody microarrays. (in preparation)
• Lui, R., Stanley, B. A., dos Remedios, C. G. and Van Eyk, J. E. High-throughput Western blotting and antibody deposition in analysing myofilament proteins in end-stage human heart failure using a Chemical Inkjet Printer (ChIP). (in preparation)
  

Reviews and Book Chapters

• Lui, R., Velayuthen, C., Challapalli, R., Dyer, W. and dos Remedios, C. G. (2004). Leukocytes as reporter probes. International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
• Lui, R., Lal, S. P and dos Remedios, C. G. (2005) Book chapter Proteomics in Cardiovascular Disease in Encyclopedic Reference of Genomics and Proteomics in Molecular Medicine. pg 1567-1569. Springer Online Encyclopedia Reference, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
  
• Lui, R., Brown, A., Wu, B., Lin, M. W., Thompson, J., Braet, P., Dyer, W., Lattimore, J., Macdonald, P. S., Adelstein, S. and dos Remedios, C. G. Book chapter title Use of cell-capture antibody arrays in the analysis of inflammation, autoimmunity, viral infection, and metastatic/non-metastatic cancer in the book Clinical Proteomics: From Diagnosis to Therapy. pg 567-582. ed Van Eyk JE/ Dunn MJ. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim.  ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31637-3. Contracted to be printed in 2007.
• Guo, Y., Lui, R., Elliot, S. and Van Eyk, J. E. Book chapter title: Proteomic analysis in the book Bioinformatics: A Practical Approach. pg 287-334. ed. Ye SQ. 450 pages, Chapman & Hall/CRC, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. ISBN-13: 978-1584888109. Contracted to be printed in 2007.

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