Dr Ryan Martinus
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BSc, MSc (Waikato), PhD (Massey)
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martinus, Dr Ryan | 4375 | martinus | E.3.08 | Biological Sciences |
You can contact staff by:
- Calling +64 7 838 4466 then enter the extension
- Direct dialling +64 7 838 then extension (for extensions starting with 4)
- Direct dialling +64 7 858 then extension (for extensions starting with 5)
- Emailing username@waikato.ac.nz
- Using the campus map to locate their room
Research Interests
I am interested in the relationships between mitochondrial stress and inflammatory responses in CNS, muscle, pancreas and reproductive processes.
Students Supervised
PhD
- Jabed, Md Anower (in progress). Knockdown of the milk proteinβ - lactoglobin using RNA interference (RNAi).
MSc
- Hall, Luke (in progress). Does Hsp60 Induce an Inflammatory Response in Vascular Endothelial Cells?
- Short, Matthew (in progress). Is β-Cell Demise Due to Exosomal Hsp60?
- Tsuei, An-Chi (2010). Effects of metformin on human moncytic THP-1 cells - implications for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Chou, Tzu-Wen Joy (2009). Inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction: is hsp60 the link?
- Gong, Bei (2009). Developing a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)-based method for sub-nanomolar detecting of Heat Shock Proteins.
- Sowry, Blair (2009). Epigenetic reprogramming of somatic cells by zygotic factors.
- Puddick, Jonathan (2006). A comparartive proteomics approach to studying skeletal muscle mitochondria from myostatin knockout mice.
- Collins, Tracey (2006). The role of mitochondrial oxidative stress in trophoblast cells and placentation of cloned embryos.
- Hwang, Lisa (2006). Mitochondrial dysfunction and Inflammation in diabetic CNS.
- Munif, Farina (2006). In vitro Investigation into the Health of Free and Encapsulated Porcine - Islet Cells Prior to Xenotransplantation.
Expertise
Understanding relationships between mitochondrial stress and cellular inflammation in the brain (ageing and neurodegeneration), pancreatic islet cells (diabetes) and reproductive processes (male fertility).
Recent Publications
- Puddick, J., Martinus, R. (2011) A comparative proteomics study of skeletal muscle mitochondria from myostatin null mice
Refereed Journal Articles - Cell Biology International Reports - Martinus, R., Cook, C. (2011) The effects of complement C5a on mitochondrial functions of PC12 cells
Refereed Journal Articles - NeuroReport - Yuan, J., Dunn, P., Martinus, R. (2011) Detection of Hsp60 in saliva and serum from type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic control subjects
Refereed Journal Articles - Cell Stress and Chaperones - Tsuei, A., Martinus, R. (2011) Metformin induced expression of Hsp60 in human THP-1 monocyte cell
Refereed Journal Articles - Cell Stress and Chaperones
