I am a computational biologist currently completing my PhD at the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, focusing on the study of mRNA-interacting proteins. I have expertise in biological and general data science, as well as a passion for data visualisation and reproducible research.
Biography
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University of Cambridge
Doctor of Philosophy - PhDBiochemistry
2019 - 2023
Activities and Societies: CU Women's Basketball Club (Captain 2020-2022)
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Cambridge Spark
L7 Machine Learning Academy
2023 - 2024
Topics covered: • supervised & unsupervised learning • time series analysis • natural language processing • neural networks and deep learning • python software engineering practice for data science • model interpretability
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La Trobe University
Bachelor of Science (Honours)Biochemistry and Chemistry
2014 - 2018
Awards: Biochemistry and Genetics Honours - Top Student (2018)
Pro Vice-Chancellor's Commendation (2017)
Robert Magee Memorial Prize for Chemistry (2016)
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La Trobe University
Bachelor of ArtsArchaeology
2014 - 2017
Awards: Historical Archaeology in Australia - Top Student (2018)
Pro Vice-Chancellor's Commendation (2015)
Publications
| Interrogation of RNA-protein interaction dynamics in bacterial growth
M Monti, R Herman, K Davey, CS Dawson, J Ule, GH Thomas, AE Willis, ...
bioRxiv, 2023.07. 03.547468
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2023 | |
| Subcellular Transcriptomics and Proteomics: A Comparative Methods Review
JA Christopher, A Geladaki, CS Dawson, OL Vennard, KS Lilley
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 21 (2)
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2022 | |
| Extracellular Vesicles from Fusarium graminearum Contain Protein Effectors Expressed during Infection of Corn
D Garcia-Ceron, RGT Lowe, JA McKenna, LM Brain, CS Dawson, B Clark, ...
Journal of Fungi 7 (11), 977
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2021 | |
| Size‐exclusion chromatography allows the isolation of EVs from the filamentous fungal plant pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Fov)
D Garcia‐Ceron, CS Dawson, P Faou, MR Bleackley, MA Anderson
Proteomics 21 (13-14), 2000240
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2021 | |
| Organic phase separation opens up new opportunities to interrogate the RNA-binding proteome
T Smith, E Villanueva, RML Queiroz, CS Dawson, M Elzek, EC Urdaneta, ...
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 54, 70-75
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2020 | |
| Protein markers for Candida albicans EVs include claudin-like Sur7 family proteins
CS Dawson, D Garcia-Ceron, H Rajapaksha, P Faou, MR Bleackley, ...
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 9 (1), 1750810
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2020 | |
| The interaction with fungal cell wall polysaccharides determines the salt tolerance of antifungal plant defensins
MR Bleackley, CS Dawson, JAE Payne, PJ Harvey, KJ Rosengren, ...
The Cell Surface 5, 100026
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2019 | |
| Fungal extracellular vesicles with a focus on proteomic analysis
MR Bleackley, CS Dawson, MA Anderson
Proteomics 19 (8), 1800232
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2019 | |
| Oat of this world: Defining peptide markers for detection of oats in processed food
C Dawson, O Mendoza‐Porras, K Byrne, T Hooper, C Howitt, M Colgrave
Peptide Science 110 (3), e24045
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2018 | |
| Synergistic Activity between Two Antifungal Proteins, the Plant Defensin NaD1 and the Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
MR Bleackley, CS Dawson, JA McKenna, P Quimbar, BME Hayes, ...
mSphere 2 (5), e00390-17
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Teaching and Supervisions
2023/2024:
- Analysis of expression Proteomics data in R
