Dr Todd Mitchell

BSc (Hon), PhD

Position:

Senior Lecturer

Teaching and coordinating:

Honours and postgraduate research student supervision
HDR coordinator for the School of Health Sciences
SHS900 Research Projects
SHS901 Practicum
SHS902 Special Topics

Research Interests:

The role of lipids in the development of various pathologies including insulin resistance, obesity, cardiovascular disease and cataract
Development of new mass spectrometric techniques for the analysis of lipids.

Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

Mitchell TW, Pham H, Thomas MC and Blanksby SJ (2009) “Identification of Double bond position in lipids: From GC to OzID” Journal of Chromatography B, In press.
Le Lay S, Li Q, Proschogo N, Rodriguez M,Cartland S, Jessup W, Mitchell T and Gaus K (2009) “Caveolin-1-dependent and –independent membrane domains” Journal of Lipid Research, In Press.
Deeley JM, Thomas MC, Truscott RJW, Mitchell TW and Blanksby SJ (2009) “Identification of abundant alkyl ether glycerophospholipids in the human lens by novel tandem mass spectrometry techniques” Analytical Chemistry, 81, 1920-1930.
Thomas MC, Mitchell TW, Harman, DG, Deeley JM, Nealon JR and Blanksby SJ (2008) “Ozone Induced Dissociation (OzID): a novel method for the elucidation of double bond position within mass-selected lipid ions” Analytical Chemistry, 80, 303-311.
Mitchell TW, Buffenstien R and Hulbert AJ (2007) “Membrane lipid composition may contribute to exceptional longevity of the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber); a comparative study using shotgun lipidomics” Experimental Gerontology, 42, 1053-1062
Cazzoli R., Mitchell TW, Burchfield J, Pedersen DJ, Turner N, Biden TJ and Schmitz-Peiffer C (2007) “Dilinoleoyl-Phosphatidic Acid Mediates Reduced IRS-1 Tyrosine Phosphorylation In Skeletal Muscle” Diabetologia, 50, 1732-1742.
Thomas MC, Mitchell TW and Blanksby SJ (2006) “Ozonolysis of phospholipid double bonds during electrospray ionization: a new tool for structure determination ”Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 58-59.