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Watchon, Maxinne
Email: maxinne.watchon@mq.edu.au
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Affiliation: Laird Lab
Address: Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences Level 1, 75 Talavera Road Macquarie University, NSW 2109
Country: Australia
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PUBLICATIONS
Watchon, M., Luu, L., Plenderleith, S.K., Yuan, K.C., Laird, A.S. (2023) Autophagy Function and Benefits of Autophagy Induction in Models of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3. Cells. 12(6):
Pereira Sena, P., Weber, J.J., Watchon, M., Robinson, K.J., Wassouf, Z., Hauser, S., Helm, J., Abeditashi, M., Schmidt, J., Hübener-Schmid, J., Schöls, L., Laird, A.S., Riess, O., Schmidt, T. (2021) Pathophysiological interplay between O-GlcNAc transferase and the Machado-Joseph disease protein ataxin-3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118(47):
Robinson, K.J., Yuan, K., Plenderleith, S.K., Watchon, M., Laird, A.S. (2021) A Novel Calpain Inhibitor Compound Has Protective Effects on a Zebrafish Model of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3. Cells. 10(10)
Robinson, K.J., Tym, M.C., Hogan, A., Watchon, M., Yuan, K.C., Plenderleith, S.K., Don, E.K., Laird, A.S. (2021) Flow cytometry allows rapid detection of protein aggregates in cellular and zebrafish models of spinocerebellar ataxia 3. Disease models & mechanisms. 14(10):
Watchon, M., Luu, L., Robinson, K.J., Yuan, K.C., De Luca, A., Suddull, H.J., Tym, M.C., Guillemin, G.J., Cole, N.J., Nicholson, G.A., Chung, R.S., Lee, A., Laird, A.S. (2021) Sodium valproate increases activity of the sirtuin pathway resulting in beneficial effects for spinocerebellar ataxia-3 in vivo. Molecular brain. 14:128
Cheng, F., De Luca, A., Hogan, A.L., Rayner, S.L., Davidson, J.M., Watchon, M., Stevens, C.H., Muñoz, S.S., Ooi, L., Yerbury, J.J., Don, E.K., Fifita, J.A., Villalva, M.D., Suddull, H., Chapman, T.R., Hedl, T.J., Walker, A.K., Yang, S., Morsch, M., Shi, B., Blair, I.P., Laird, A.S., Chung, R.S., Lee, A. (2021) Unbiased Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics of Cells Expressing Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Mutations in CCNF Reveals Activation of the Apoptosis Pathway: A Workflow to Screen Pathogenic Gene Mutations. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience. 14:627740
Cholan, P.M., Han, A., Woodie, B.R., Watchon, M., Kurz, A.R., Laird, A.S., Britton, W.J., Ye, L., Holmes, Z.C., McCann, J.R., David, L.A., Rawls, J.F., Oehlers, S.H. (2020) Conserved anti-inflammatory effects and sensing of butyrate in zebrafish. Gut microbes. 12:1-11
Hogan, A.L., Don, E.K., Rayner, S.L., Lee, A., Laird, A.S., Watchon, M., Winnick, C., Tarr, I.S., Morsch, M., Fifita, J.A., Gwee, S.S.L., Formella, I., Hortle, E., Yuan, K.C., Molloy, M.P., Williams, K.L., Nicholson, G.A., Chung, R.S., Blair, I.P., Cole, N.J. (2018) Expression of ALS/FTD-linked mutant CCNF in zebrafish leads to increased cell death in the spinal cord and an aberrant motor phenotype. Human molecular genetics. 28(4):698
Robinson, K.J., Yuan, K.C., Don, E.K., Hogan, A.L., Winnick, C.G., Tym, M.C., Lucas, C.W., Shahheydari, H., Watchon, M., Blair, I.P., Atkin, J.D., Nicholson, G.A., Cole, N.J., Laird, A.S. (2018) Motor Neuron Abnormalities Correlate with Impaired Movement in Zebrafish that Express Mutant Superoxide Dismutase 1. Zebrafish. 16(1):8-14
Acosta, J.R., Watchon, M., Yuan, K.C., Fifita, J., Svahn, A.J., Don, E.K., Blair, I.P., Nicholson, G.A., Cole, N.J., Goldsbury, C., Laird, A.S. (2018) Neuronal cell culture from transgenic zebrafish models of neurodegenerative disease. Biology Open. 7(10):
Watchon, M., Yuan, K.C., Mackovski, N., Svahn, A.J., Cole, N.J., Goldsbury, C., Rinkwitz, S., Becker, T.S., Nicholson, G.A., Laird, A.S. (2017) Calpain inhibition is protective in Machado-Joseph disease zebrafish due to induction of autophagy. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 37(32):7782-7794

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