Ms Rita Paolini
CONTACT
E-mail: ritaap@unimelb.edu.au
Telephone: +61 3 8344 2573
QUALIFICATIONS AND POSITION
- BSc (Swinburne)
- Research Assistant - Oral Biology Research Group
SHORT HISTORY
- Melbourne University- Microbiology Department
- Monash University –Biochemisty Department
- Melbourne Univeristy-School of Dental Science 1997 - present
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Microbiology
- Immunology
- Proteomics
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Proteomic analysis of Treponema denticola
CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
- Dashper SG, O’Brien-Simpson, NM, Cross K, Paolini, RA, Hoffman, B, Catmull D, Malkoski, M, and Reynolds EC. (2005). Divalent metal cations increase the activity of the antimicrobial peptide Kappacin. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. In Press April 2005.
- Dashper SG, Butler C, Lissel P, Paolini, RA, Hoffmann B, Veith P, O’Brien-Simpson, NM, Snelgrove S, Tsiros JT and Reynolds EC. (2005). A novel Porphyromonas gingivalis FeoB plays a role in manganese accumulation. J. Biol. Chem. 2005.
- Yu-Yen Chen, Keith J. Cross, Rita A. Paolini, James E. Fielding, Nada Slakeski and Eric C. Reynolds. CPG70 a Novel Basic Metallocarboxypeptidase with C-terminal PKD Domains from Porphyromonas gingivalis. J.Biol Chem.
- Paul D.Veith, Gert H. Talbo, Nada Slakeski, Stuart Dashper, Caroline Moore, Rita A. Paolini and Eric C. Reynolds (2002) Major outer proteins and proteolytic processing of RgpA and Kgp of Porphyromonas gingivalis W50 Biochem. J. 363, 105-115.
- Ross BC, Czajkowski L, Vandenberg KL, Camuglia S, Woods J, Agius C, Paolini R, Reynolds E, Barr IG Characterization of two outer membrane proyein antigens of Porphyromonas gingivalis that are protective in a murine lesion model. Oral Microbiologu Imunology 2004: 19: 6-15.
- Neil M. O’ Brien-Simpson, Rita A. Paolini, Brigitte Hoffmann, Nada Slakeski, Stuart G. Dashper and Eric C. Reynolds (2001). Role of RgpA, RgpB, and Kgp Proteinases in Virulence of Porphyromonas gingivalis W50 in a Murine Lesion Model Infection and Immunity 69 (12):7527.
MEMBERSHIPS
- Australian society of Microbiology
- Australasian Proteomics Society