BSc Hons (Adelaide) PhD (Macquarie) Angela completed a BSc at the University of Adelaide and a PhD in Molecular Genetics at Macquarie University. She did post-doctoral research in the area of molecular genetics at Washington University in the US. On returning to Australia she continued this research at the University of Adelaide. In 1991 she took a position at the South Australian Forensic Science Centre where she developed and implemented DNA typing for forensic casework. She introduced DNA typing to the courts of SA, Queensland, ACT and also provided DNA evidence in NSW and Victoria. She was heavily involved in the setting up of Quality Guidelines for DNA testing for both forensic and parentage purposes. As a qualified ATA/ASCLD-LAB inspector she was involved in audits and accreditations of a number of forensic laboratories around the world including the FBI. She moved to Queensland in 1999 and worked in the CRC for Diagnostics at QUT and for six years. She moved to Bond University in July 2005.
Articles
Assessment of DNA degradation and the genotyping success of highly degraded samples (with Sheree R. Hughes-Stamm and Kevin J. Ashton), International journal of legal medicine (2011)
DNA becomes progressively more fragmented as biological tissue degrades resulting in decreasing ability to gain...
Genetics and cardiovascular disease: Design and development of a DNA biobank, Experimental and clinical cardiology (2009)
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a complex disease with environmental and genetic determinants. Many other...
The DRD2 gene 957C>T polymorphism is associated with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in war veterans (with Joanne Voisey, Christopher D. Swagell, Ian P. Hughes, C. Phillip Morris, Earnest P. Noble, Burnett Kann, Karen A. Heslop, Ross McD Young, and Bruce R. Lawford), Depression and anxiety (2009)
Background: Variations in genes related to the dopaminergic pathway have been implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders...
Forensically relevant SNP classes (with Bruce Budowle), BioTechniques: The international journal of life science methods (2008)
Forensic samples that contain too little template DNA or are too degraded require alternate genetic...
A polymorphism in the agouti signalling protein (ASIP) is associated with decreased levels of mRNA (with Joanne Voisey, Maria del C. Gomez-Cabrera, D. J. Smit, J. Helen Leonard, and Rick A. Sturm), Health Sciences & Medicine papers (2006)
To date, a role for agouti signalling protein (ASIP) in human pigmentation has not been...