BSc Hons, PhD (Tas)

QEII Fellow

I graduated with BSc Hons (UTas) in 1997 and my PhD in 2001 (UTas). I then spent 1 year at the University of Virginia (USA), another year at the University of Bern (Switzerland), and 8 months in London (UK) working for a small analytical biotech company. I commenced an ARC APD fellowship in May 2004, and an ARC QEII fellowship in Jan 2009.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the application, understanding and exploitation of the advantages of capillary and microchip electrophoresis and electrochromatography for the analysis of difficult samples of biological and environmental origin. I am interested in developing new technology to enhance the determination of drugs and their metabolites in biological fluids to enhance patient treatment, and also in enhancing instrumentation used for proteomics and metabolomics to aid in disease diagnosis and drug development. I am particularly interested in ways to perform integrated sample pretreatment and in the use of computational fluid dynamics to understand and design new systems.

Research Areas:

• Analytical and Environmental Chemistry  Read More
• Separation Science  Read More

Units

• KRA170 - Chemistry of Materials
  
• KRA223 - Chemical Analysis
  
• KRA336 - Separation Science and Related Techniques
  

Selected Publications:

• 1. J.R.E. Thabano, M.C. Breadmore, J.P. Hutchinson, C. Johns, P.R. Haddad, 2009, 'Silica Nano-Templated Polymer Monoliths for In-Line Solid Phase Extraction –Capillary Electrophoresis of Basic Analytes', Journal of Chromatography A, 1216, pgs. 4933-4940
• R.M. Guijt, M.C. Breadmore, 2008, 'Maskless photolithography using UV LEDs', Lab-on-a-chip, 8, pgs. 1402-1404
• M.C. Breadmore, J.P. Quirino, 2008, '100,000-fold Concentration of Anions in Capillary Zone Electrophoresis using Electroosmotic Flow Controlled Counter-Flow Isotachophoretic Stacking under Field Amplified Conditions', Analytical Chemistry, 80(16), pgs. 6373-6381
• M.C. Breadmore, R.A. Mosher and W. Thormann, 2006, 'High resolution computer simulation of stacking weak bases using a transient pH boundary in capillary electrophoresis. Part 1 – concept and impact of sample ionic strength', Anal. Chem., 78(2), pgs. 0538-0546
• M. C. Breadmore, R. Theurillat and W. Thormann, 2004, 'Determination of Ribavirin in human sera and plasma by capillary electrophoresis', Electrophoresis, 25, pgs. 1615-1622
• M. C. Breadmore, K. A. Wolfe, I. G. Arcibal, W. K. Leung, D. Dickson, B. C. Giordano, M. E Powers, J. P Ferrance, S. Feldman, P. M. Norris and J. P. Landers, 2003, 'Microchip-based DNA purification from biological samples, (2003) ', Anal. Chem. , 75(8) , pgs. 1880-1886

Full Publication List

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• Therapeutic Drug monitoring of Anti-psychotic Medications