User:Marcus McHale

Contact Info

Marcus McHale

• Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Laboratory
• School of Biological Sciences
• Macleay Building, A12
• University of Sydney
• NSW, 2006,
• AUSTRALIA
• Email me through OpenWetWare

Education

• 2005 - Honours (class I) from the School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences at the University of Queensland
• 2004 - Bachelor of Science (Botany and Genetics) from the University of Queensland

Research interests

• Development and application of molecular technologies
• Epigenetics and gene regulation (particularly small RNA mediated)
• Agricultural biodiversity
• Fisheries depletion

Projects

Current

• Investigating the expression of genes related to ovary activation in honey bees (Apis mellifera) using real-time PCR [1]

Past

• Gender assignment (sexing) of dugong tissue biopsies [2]
• Population genetics of Dugong in and around Moreton Bay (Brisbane, Australia)
• Genetic mark-recapture of Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) and dugong (Dugong dugon) [3][4]
• Durable RNA silencing mediated transgenic virus resistance in plants (Honours project)[5]

Publications

1. A multiplex PCR assay for gender assignment in dugong (Dugong dugon) and West-Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). M. MCHALE, D. BRODERICK, J . R. OVENDEN and J . M. LANYON. Molecular Ecology Resources (2008) 8, 669–670

OpenWetWare

• My Contributions
• DNA extraction - Salting Out

Bookmarks

• Staden Package Powerful tool for sequence allignment and quality checking traces
• Primer-UniGene Selectivity Testing Useful for PCR development in genome sequenced species