Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Dr Emma Livingstone

Higher degree by research (PhD) student
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
+61 7 334 62338

Emma completed her BSc in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) in 2012 where she was a recipient of the University of Canterbury Dux Scholarship. Following a summer research project with Colin Jackson at the Australian National University she returned to Canterbury to complete an MSc(Hons) in Chemistry under the supervision of Emily Parker where she was awarded the Cuth J Wilkins prize in Chemistry. She worked as a Chemistry teacher in the Bridging Programme at the University of Canterbury before starting her PhD in Structural Biology at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience under the supervision of Brett Collins and Jenny Martin. Emma is the recipient of a UQ research scholarship, an IMB research advancement award, and an Australian Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering postgraduate research award.

Publications

Journal Articles (7)
Conference Paper (1)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Weeratunga, Saroja, Gormal, Rachel S., Liu, Meihan, Eldershaw, Denaye, Livingstone, Emma K., Malapaka, Anusha, Wallis, Tristan P., Bademosi, Adekunle T., Jiang, Anmin, Healy, Michael D., Meunier, Frederic A. and Collins, Brett M. (2024). Interrogation and validation of the interactome of neuronal Munc18-interacting Mint proteins with AlphaFold2. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 300 (1) 105541, 105541. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105541
Yong, Xuan Ling Hilary, Zhang, Lingrui, Yang, Liming, Chen, Xiumin, Tan, Jing Zhi Anson, Yu, Xiaojun, Chandra, Mintu, Livingstone, Emma, Widagdo, Jocelyn, Vieira, Marta M., Roche, Katherine W., Lynch, Joseph W., Keramidas, Angelo, Collins, Brett M. and Anggono, Victor (2021). Regulation of NMDA receptor trafficking and gating by activity-dependent CaMKIIα phosphorylation of the GluN2A subunit. Cell Reports, 36 (1) 109338, 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109338
Peleg, Yoav, Vincentelli, Renaud, Collins, Brett M., Chen, Kai-En, Livingstone, Emma K., Weeratunga, Saroja, Leneva, Natalya, Guo, Qian, Remans, Kim, Perez, Kathryn, Bjerga, Gro E K, Larsen, Øivind, Vaněk, Ondřej, Skořepa, Ondřej, Jacquemin, Sophie, Poterszman, Arnaud, Kjær, Svend, Christodoulou, Evangelos, Albeck, Shira, Dym, Orly, Ainbinder, Elena, Unger, Tamar, Schuetz, Anja, Matthes, Susann, Bader, Michael, de Marco, Ario, Storici, Paola, Semrau, Marta S., Stolt-Bergner, Peggy ... Fleishman, Sarel J. (2021). Community-wide experimental evaluation of the PROSS stability-design method. Journal of Molecular Biology, 433 (13) 166964, 166964. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.166964
Kasula, Ravikiran, Blum, Ailisa, Salla-Martret, Merce, Chai, Ye Jin, Jiang, Anmin, Wallis, Tristan P., Gormal, Rachel S., Brouillet, Julie Z., Padmanabhan, Pranesh, Weeratunga, Saroja K., Livingstone, Emma K., Mollazade, Mahdie, Joensuu, Merja, Martínez-Mármol, Ramón, Collins, Brett M. and Meunier, Frederic (2019). VAMP2 Binding to Munc18-1 Domain 3a Controls the Nanoscale Reorganization of the Plasma Membrane and Vesicle Interface During Vesicular Priming. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3362260
Mittelstadt, Gerd, Jiao, Wanting, Livingstone, Emma K., Moggre, Gert-Jan, Nazmi, Ali Reza and Parker, Emily J. (2018). A dimeric catalytic core relates the short and long forms of ATP-phosphoribosyltransferase. Biochemical Journal, 475 (1), 247-260. doi: 10.1042/BCJ20170762
Campbell, Eleanor, Kaltenbach, Miriam, Correy, Galen J., Carr, Paul D., Porebski, Benjamin T., Livingstone, Emma K., Afriat-Jurnou, Livnat, Buckle, Ashley M., Weik, Martin, Hollfelder, Florian, Tokuriki, Nobuhiko and Jackson, Colin J. (2016). The role of protein dynamics in the evolution of new enzyme function. Nature Chemical Biology, 12 (11), 944-950. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2175
Livingstone, Emma K., Mittelstadt, Gerd, Given, Fiona M. and Parker, Emily J. (2016). Independent catalysis of the short form HisG from Lactococcus lactis. FEBS Letters, 590 (16), 2603-2610. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.12277

Conference Paper

Livingstone, Emma, Whitten, Andrew, Weeratunga, Saroja, Martin, Jennifer and Collins, Brett (2018). Characterisation of protein complexes essential to cellular trafficking. 32nd Annual Symposium of the Protein Society, Boston, MA, 9-12 July 2018 . Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell.

Thesis

Livingstone, Emma Kathrine (2019). Characterisation of proteins essential to vesicle membrane fusion. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.813