Connie completed her Bachelor of Science at The University of Queensland in June 2016, majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She first joined the Inflammasome lab for a short research project in Summer 2013-2014 and again in Winter 2015, assisting Alina Zamoshnikova and Caroline Holley in flow cytometry-based assays for inflammasome activation. She is currently undertaking research towards her Honours degree.
Book Chapters
Ross, Connie M., Foley, Gabriel, Boden, Mikael and Gillam, Elizabeth M. J. (2022). Using the evolutionary history of proteins to engineer insertion-deletion mutants from robust, ancestral templates using Graphical Representation of Ancestral Sequence Predictions (GRASP). Enzyme engineering. (pp. 85-110) edited by Francesca Magnani, Chiara Marabelli and Francesca Paradisi. New York, NY, United States: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1826-4_6
Boucher, Dave, Chan, Amy, Ross, Connie and Schroder, Kate (2018). Quantifying caspase-1 activity in murine macrophages. Inflammation and cancer. (pp. 163-176) edited by Brendan J. Jenkins. New York, NY, United States: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7568-6_14
Journal Articles
Coombs, Jared R., Zamoshnikova, Alina, Holley, Caroline L., Maddugoda, Madhavi P., Teo, Daniel Eng Thiam, Chauvin, Camille, Poulin, Lionel F, Vitak, Nazarii, Ross, Connie M., Mellacheruvu, Manasa, Coll, Rebecca C., Heinz, Leonhard X., Burgener, Sabrina S., Emming, Stefan, Chamaillard, Mathias, Boucher, Dave and Schroder, Kate (2024). NLRP12 interacts with NLRP3 to block the activation of the human NLRP3 inflammasome. Science Signaling, 17 (820) abg8145, eabg8145. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.abg8145
Foley, Gabriel, Mora, Ariane, Ross, Connie M., Bottoms, Scott, Sützl, Leander, Lamprecht, Marnie L., Zaugg, Julian, Essebier, Alexandra, Balderson, Brad, Newell, Rhys, Thomson, Raine E. S., Kobe, Bostjan, Barnard, Ross T., Guddat, Luke, Schenk, Gerhard, Carsten, Jörg, Gumulya, Yosephine, Rost, Burkhard, Haltrich, Dietmar, Sieber, Volker, Gillam, Elizabeth M. J. and Bodén, Mikael (2022). Engineering indel and substitution variants of diverse and ancient enzymes using Graphical Representation of Ancestral Sequence Predictions (GRASP). PL o S Computational Biology, 18 (10) e1010633, e1010633. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010633
Ross, Connie, Chan, Amy H., von Pein, Jessica B., Maddugoda, Madhavi P., Boucher, Dave and Schroder, Kate (2022). Inflammatory caspases: toward a unified model for caspase activation by inflammasomes. Annual Review of Immunology, 40 (1), 249-269. doi: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-101220-030653
Ross, Connie, Chan, Amy H., Von Pein, Jessica, Boucher, Dave and Schroder, Kate (2018). Dimerization and auto-processing induce caspase-11 protease activation within the non-canonical inflammasome. Life Science Alliance, 1 (6) e201800237, e201800237. doi: 10.26508/lsa.201800237
Boucher, Dave, Monteleone, Mercedes, Coll, Rebecca C., Chen, Kaiwen W., Ross, Connie M., Teo, Jessica L., Gomez, Guillermo A., Holley, Caroline L., Bierschenk, Damien, Stacey, Katryn J., Yap, Alpha S., Bezbradica, Jelena S. and Schroder, Kate (2018). Caspase-1 self-cleavage is an intrinsic mechanism to terminate inflammasome activity. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 215 (3), 827-840. doi: 10.1084/jem.20172222
Thesis
Petroeschevsky, Connie Mae (2022). Ancestral reconstruction and characterisation of the CYP2U subfamily. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/1d1eddc