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Qualifications:
BSc UoW
PhD (Cell Biology) UoW
Research interests:
After completing a PhD consisting of a Cell Biology project, investigating the molecular mechanisms involved in apoptosis (cell death), I took up a 3.5 year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Prof. Martin Tenniswood’s Cancer Biology laboratory at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, USA. During this time I investigated the mechanism of action of the anti-breast cancer drug, Tamoxifen.
In 2003, I was appointed as an Associate Lecturer in Biochemistry in a limited term position, lecturing in Basic and Metabolic Biochemistry whilst researching an Immunology-based project aimed at understanding the mode of action of human Metapneumovirus.
During 2005 I returned to the laboratories of Professor Gordon Wallace, where I had previously worked (1990-2) on a GIRD-funded project researching the preparation and characterisation of novel conducting polymers and conducting polymer-hydrogel composites and the application of the conducting polymers to cell culture. My work as a Research Fellow in Bionanotechnology during 2005 focussed on the development of novel biocompatible coatings using carbon nanotubes, the block copolymer SIBS and a range of biomolecules and the testing of these coatings in cell culture.
Key Publications:
- Hodgson, A.J., Gilmore, K., Small, C., Wallace, G.G., MacKenzie, I., Ogata, N., Aoki, T. (1994) Reactive Supramolecular Assemblies of Mucopolysaccharide Polypyrrole and Protein as Controllable Biocomposites for a New Generation of "Intelligent Biomaterials" Supramolecular Science 1, 77-83.
- Gilmore, K. , Hodgson, A.J., Luan, B., Small, C.J., Wallace, G.G. (1994) Preparation of Conducting Polymer- Hydrogel Composites. Polymer Gels and Networks 2, 135-143.
- Kerry Gilmore and Mark Wilson. (1999) The Use of Chloro-X-Rosamine (MitoTracker Red) to Measure Loss of Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Apoptotic Cells is Incompatible with Cell Fixation.Cytometry 36: 355-358.
- KJ Gilmore , HE Quinn and MR Wilson. Pinocytic Loading of Cytochrome C into Intact Cells Specifically Induces Caspase-Dependent Permeabilization of Mitochondria. Cell Death and Differentiation (2001) 8, 631-639.
Subjects taught:
BIOL213: Introductory Biochemistry
BIOL21: Metabolic Biochemistry
email:
kerryg@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 (02) 42 213 319
office: 41A.268
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Dr Kerry Gilmore
Figure 1: L-929 (mouse fibroblast) cells growing on a coating made from double walled-carbon nanotubes, dispersed into salmon sperm DNA.
Figure 2: A fluorescence image of the same with Calcein staining of viable cells.
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