IFM staff

Ms Rosey Van Driel

Research interests:

Transmission EM of biological specimens in the field of medical research, specializing in cryopreparation for morphology and immunolocalization of antigens by TEM.

Relevant employment history:

2002 - 2010: Electron Microscopist and Quality Assurance DCO, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory

2001 - 2002: Electron Microscopy Applications Specialist, IATIA Vision Sciences

1998 - 2001: Senior Professional Officer: Electron Microscopy, Baker IDI Medical Research Institute

1996 - 1998: Research Assistant, Monash Medical School Department of Pathology & Immunology

1989 - 1996: Electron Microscopist, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research

1988 - 1989: Technical Assistant, Melbourne University Department of Anatomy

1986 - 1988: Research Technician, University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas

1983 - 1986: Technical Assistant, Melbourne University Department of Anatomy

1981 - 1982: Laboratory Assistant, University of Western Australia, Department of Biochemistry

A list of the ten most significant relevant publications for the last five years:

1. Tan J, Lancaster M, Hyatt A, van Driel R, Wong F, Warner S: Purification of a herpes-like virus from abalone (Haliotis spp.) with ganglioneuritis and detection by transmission electron microscopy. Journal of Virological Methods 2008, 149:338-341.
2. Cowled C, Melville L, Weir R, Walsh S, Hyatt A, van Driel R, Davis S, Gubala A, Boyle D "Genetic and epidemiological characterisation of Middle Point orbivirus, a novel virus isolated from sentinel cattle in northern Australia" Journal of General Virology (2007) 88,3413-3422
3. Cole TJ,Solomon NM, VAN DRIEL RR, Monk JA, Bird D, Richardson SJ, Dilley R, and Hooper, S "Altered epithelial cell populations in the fetal lung of Glucocorticoid Receptor Null Mice." Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 30(5):613-9 2004 May, Eupub 2003 Oct 24
4. Hawke C, Painter D, Kirwan P, VAN DRIEL R, and Baxter A. "Mycobacteria, an Environmental Enhancer of Lupus Nephritis in a Mouse Model of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus." Immunology 108(1):70-8 Jan 2003
5. Brereton PS, VAN DRIEL RR, Haji Suhaiami F, Koyama K, Dilley R, and Krozowski Z. "Light and Electron Microscopy Localization of the 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type I Enzyme in the Rat." Endocrinology, 142: 1644-1651, 2001
6. Hausmann G, O'Reilly LA, VAN DRIEL R, Beaumont JG, Strasser A, Adams JM, and Huang DCS. "Pro-apoptotic Apoptosis Protease-activating Factor 1 (Apaf-1) Has a Cytoplasmic Localization Distinct from Bcl-2 or Bcl-xL." The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 149 (3): 623-633 (May 1st, 2000)
7. Uren AG, Beilharz T, O?Connell MJ, Bugg SJ, VAN DRIEL R, Vaux DL, and Lithgow T. "Role for yeast inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP)-like proteins in cell division" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96:10170-10175 (August 1999)
8. Pulendran B, VAN DRIEL RR, and Nossal GJV. "Immunological tolerance in germinal centres" Immunology Today 18:27-32 (1997)
9. Handman H, Osborn AH, Symons F, VAN DRIEL RR and Cappai R. "The Leishmania Promastigote Surface Antigen 2 Complex is Differentially Expressed During the Parasite Life Cycle" Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 74(2):189-200, (1995)
10. Lithgow T, VAN DRIEL RR, Bertram JF, Strasser A "The Protein Product of the Oncogene bcl-2 Is a Component of the Nuclear Envelope, the Endoplasmic Reticulum, and the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane" Cell Growth & Differentiation 5:411-417 (April 1994)

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