Emerita Professor Jenny Martin
Emerita Professor

Jenny Martin

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Background

Jenny Martin trained as a pharmacist at the Victorian College of Pharmacy (VCP), where she was awarded the Gold Medal for top student over the BPharm course. After completing an MPharm in computational chemistry at the College, Jenny moved to Oxford University for a PhD by research in protein crystallography and drug design. Her DPhil was supported by a prestigious 1851 Science Research Scholarship and several other competitive scholarships. Jenny then undertook two years of postdoctoral research at Rockefeller University in New York, before returning to Australia in 1993 to establish the first protein crystallography laboratory in Queensland. Since then, she has held ARC QEII, ARC Professorial and NHMRC Fellowships and is currently an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. Jenny is the recipient of many honours including the ASBMB Roche Medal, the Queensland Smart Women Smart State Research Scientist award, and the Women in Biotech Outstanding Outstanding Biotechnology Achievement Award.

Availability

Emerita Professor Jenny Martin is:
Not available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Pharmacy, Victoria University
  • Masters (Coursework), Victoria University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Research impacts

Prof Martin has contributed to knowledge through more than 110 crystal structures deposited into the protein data bank. She has also contributed to the development of patented antidiabetics, HIV-protease inhibitors, and patents leading to the development of conotoxin drugs that progressed to clinical trials. In addition, through a consultancy with PanBIO (now Inverness Medical Innovations) Prof Martin contributed to a patented diagnostic for herpes simplex virus. She has also held ARC Linkage projects with biotech companies Alchemia, Hexima and Biota leading to fundamental and applied research outcomes. As a leader in her field, Jenny has chaired the National Committee for Crystallography of the Australian Academy of Science, is a past President of the Society for Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand and former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Australian Synchrotron.

Search Professor Jenny Martin’s works on UQ eSpace

210 works between 1984 and 2022
All (210) Journal Article (177) Book Chapter (9) Conference Publication (19) Other Outputs (5)

161 - 180 of 210 works

2003

Journal Article

Recombinant expression of Munc18c in a baculovirus system and interaction with syntaxin4

Hu, S. H., Gee, C. L., Latham, C. F., Rowlinson, S. W., Rova, U., Jones, A., Halliday, J. A., Bryant, N. J., James, D. E. and Martin, J. L. (2003). Recombinant expression of Munc18c in a baculovirus system and interaction with syntaxin4. Protein Expression And Purification, 31 (2), 305-310. doi: 10.1016/S1046-5928(03)00197-9

Recombinant expression of Munc18c in a baculovirus system and interaction with syntaxin4

2003

Journal Article

D-Tyrosine as a chiral precusor to potent inhibitors of human nonpancreatic secretory phospholipase A(2) (IIa) with antiinflammatory activity

Hansford, Karl A., Reid, Robert C., Clark, Chris I., Tyndall, Joel D. A., Whitehouse, Michael W., Guthrie, Tom, McGeary, Ross P., Schafer, Karl, Martin, Jennifer L. and Fairlie, David P. (2003). D-Tyrosine as a chiral precusor to potent inhibitors of human nonpancreatic secretory phospholipase A(2) (IIa) with antiinflammatory activity. Chembiochem, 4 (2-3), 181-185. doi: 10.1002/cbic.200390029

D-Tyrosine as a chiral precusor to potent inhibitors of human nonpancreatic secretory phospholipase A(2) (IIa) with antiinflammatory activity

2003

Journal Article

Dehydration converts DsbG crystal diffraction from low to high resolution

Heras, B., Edeling, M. A., Byriel, K. A., Jones, A., Raina, S. and Martin, J. L. (2003). Dehydration converts DsbG crystal diffraction from low to high resolution. Structure, 11 (2), 139-145. doi: 10.1016/S0969-2126(03)00005-4

Dehydration converts DsbG crystal diffraction from low to high resolution

2002

Conference Publication

Structural genomics of novel proteins induced in macrophages in response to lipopolysaccharide

Walsh, C. R., Listwan, P., Serek, R. A., Cowieson, N. P., Barry, G., Ross, I. L., Ravasi, T., Wells, C. A., Jerala, R., Martin, J. L., Kobe, B. and Hume, D. A. (2002). Structural genomics of novel proteins induced in macrophages in response to lipopolysaccharide. ComBio2002, Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 29 September -3 October, 2002.

Structural genomics of novel proteins induced in macrophages in response to lipopolysaccharide

2002

Journal Article

Crystallization of PNMT, the adrenaline-synthesizing enzyme, is critically dependent on a high protein concentration

Begun, J., McLeish, M. J., Caine, J.M., Palant, E., Grunewald, G.L. and Martin, J. L. (2002). Crystallization of PNMT, the adrenaline-synthesizing enzyme, is critically dependent on a high protein concentration. Acta Crystallographica Section D- Biological Crystallography, D58 (2), 314-315. doi: 10.1107/S090744490101962X

Crystallization of PNMT, the adrenaline-synthesizing enzyme, is critically dependent on a high protein concentration

2002

Journal Article

Structure of CcmG/DsbE at 1.14 angstrom resolution: High-fidelity reducing activity in an indiscriminately oxidizing environment

Edeling, M. A., Guddat, L. W., Fabianek, R. A., Thony-Meyer, L. and Martin, J. L. (2002). Structure of CcmG/DsbE at 1.14 angstrom resolution: High-fidelity reducing activity in an indiscriminately oxidizing environment. Structure, 10 (7), 973-979. doi: 10.1016/S0969-2126(02)00794-3

Structure of CcmG/DsbE at 1.14 angstrom resolution: High-fidelity reducing activity in an indiscriminately oxidizing environment

2002

Conference Publication

Structural genomics of novel macrophage proteins associated with inflammatory disease and cancer

Listwan, P., Walsh, C. R., Ravasi, T., Wells, C. A., Cowieson, N. P., Hume, D. A., Martin, J. L. and Kobe, B. (2002). Structural genomics of novel macrophage proteins associated with inflammatory disease and cancer. International Conference on Structural Genomics, Berlin, 10-13 October, 2002.

Structural genomics of novel macrophage proteins associated with inflammatory disease and cancer

2002

Journal Article

SAM (dependent) I AM: the S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase fold

Martin, Jennifer L. and McMillan, Fiona M. (2002). SAM (dependent) I AM: the S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase fold. Current Opinion In Structural Biology, 12 (6), 783-793. doi: 10.1016/S0959-440X(02)00391-3

SAM (dependent) I AM: the S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase fold

2002

Journal Article

Crystal structures of free, IMP-, and GMP-bound Escherichia coli hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase

Guddat, L. W., Vos, S., Martin, J. L., Keough, D. T. and De Jersey, J. (2002). Crystal structures of free, IMP-, and GMP-bound Escherichia coli hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase. Protein Science, 11 (7), 1626-1638. doi: 10.1110/ps.0201002

Crystal structures of free, IMP-, and GMP-bound Escherichia coli hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase

2002

Conference Publication

Structure and functions analysis of leucine rich repeat containing proteins involved in the macrophage response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide

Walsh, C. R., Listwan, P., Serek, R. A., Cowieson, N. P., Gee, C. L., Barry, G., Ross, I. L., Ravasi, T., Wells, C. A., Jerala, R., Martin, J. L., Hume, D. A. and Kobe, B. (2002). Structure and functions analysis of leucine rich repeat containing proteins involved in the macrophage response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide. Australian Society for Immunology Meeting, Brisbane, 1-5 December, 2002.

Structure and functions analysis of leucine rich repeat containing proteins involved in the macrophage response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide

2002

Journal Article

Catalytically active Dengue virus NS3 protease forms aggregates that are separable by size exclusion chromatography

Arakaki, T. L., Fang, N. X., Fairlie, D. P., Young, P. R. and Martin, J. L. (2002). Catalytically active Dengue virus NS3 protease forms aggregates that are separable by size exclusion chromatography. Protein Expression And Purification, 25 (2), 241-247. doi: 10.1016/S1046-5928(02)00005-0

Catalytically active Dengue virus NS3 protease forms aggregates that are separable by size exclusion chromatography

2001

Journal Article

Activity of recombinant dengue 2 virus NS3 protease in the presence of a truncated NS2B co-factor, small peptide substrates, and inhibitors

Leung, D., Schroder, K., White, H., Fang, N. X., Stoermer, M. J., Abbenante, G., Martin, J. L., Young, P. R. and Fairlie, D. P. (2001). Activity of recombinant dengue 2 virus NS3 protease in the presence of a truncated NS2B co-factor, small peptide substrates, and inhibitors. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276 (49), 45762-45771. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M107360200

Activity of recombinant dengue 2 virus NS3 protease in the presence of a truncated NS2B co-factor, small peptide substrates, and inhibitors

2001

Conference Publication

In vitro catalytic activity of recombinant forms of the dengue virus NS3 protease

Young, P. R., Fang, N., Leung, D., Arakaki, T., Stoermer, M. J., Fairlie, D. and Martin, J. L. (2001). In vitro catalytic activity of recombinant forms of the dengue virus NS3 protease. 6th International Symposium on Positive Strand Viruses, Paris, France, 28 May - 2 June, 2001.

In vitro catalytic activity of recombinant forms of the dengue virus NS3 protease

2001

Journal Article

Crystallization and preliminary diffraction studies of native and selenomethionine CcmG (CycY, DsbE)

Edeling, M. A., Guddat, L. W., Fabianek, R. A., Halliday, J. A., Jones, A., Thony-Meyer, L. and Martin, J. L. (2001). Crystallization and preliminary diffraction studies of native and selenomethionine CcmG (CycY, DsbE). Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography, D57 (9), 1293-1295. doi: 10.1107/S0907444901009982

Crystallization and preliminary diffraction studies of native and selenomethionine CcmG (CycY, DsbE)

2001

Conference Publication

Construction and characterization of the dengue 2 virus NS3 protease and its mutants

Fang, N., Arakaki, T., Fairlie, D., Martin, J. L. and Young, P. R. (2001). Construction and characterization of the dengue 2 virus NS3 protease and its mutants. 1st Australian Virology Group Meeting, Fraser Island, Qld, 5-9 December, 2001.

Construction and characterization of the dengue 2 virus NS3 protease and its mutants

2001

Conference Publication

Expression, purification and preliminary X-ray crystallographic trials of P450cin, an oxidative hemoprotein of Citrobacter braakii

Pearson, A. G., Hawkes, D. B., De Voss, J. J. and Martin, J. L. (2001). Expression, purification and preliminary X-ray crystallographic trials of P450cin, an oxidative hemoprotein of Citrobacter braakii. Crystal 22, Society of Crystallographers in Aust and NZ, Couran Cove, Qld, 7-10 July, 2001.

Expression, purification and preliminary X-ray crystallographic trials of P450cin, an oxidative hemoprotein of Citrobacter braakii

2001

Journal Article

Structural genomics: Protein structures for the masses?

Walsh, C. R., Hume, D. A., Kobe, B. and Martin, J. L. (2001). Structural genomics: Protein structures for the masses?. Australian Biochemist, 32 (2), 13-16.

Structural genomics: Protein structures for the masses?

2001

Journal Article

Getting the adrenaline going: Crystal structure of the adrenaline-synthesizing enzyme PNMT

Martin, J. L., Begun, J., McLeish, M. J., Caine, J. M. and Grunewald, G. L. (2001). Getting the adrenaline going: Crystal structure of the adrenaline-synthesizing enzyme PNMT. Structure, 9 (10), 977-985. doi: 10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00662-1

Getting the adrenaline going: Crystal structure of the adrenaline-synthesizing enzyme PNMT

2000

Journal Article

Designer Medicines: Molecules of the future

Martin, J. L. (2000). Designer Medicines: Molecules of the future. Australasian Science, 21 (7), 36-37.

Designer Medicines: Molecules of the future

2000

Conference Publication

Expression and characterization of a catalytically active form of the Dengue virus NS3 protease

Young, P. R., Fang, N., Leung, D., Arakaki, T., Fairlie, D. and Martin, J. L. (2000). Expression and characterization of a catalytically active form of the Dengue virus NS3 protease. 1st Int Conf on Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 20-24 Nov, 2000.

Expression and characterization of a catalytically active form of the Dengue virus NS3 protease

Availability

Emerita Professor Jenny Martin is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Emerita Professor Jenny Martin directly for media enquiries about:

  • antibacterials
  • Antibiotic discovery
  • antibiotics
  • bacteria
  • bacterial infection
  • Crystallography - protein
  • diabetes
  • drug discovery
  • Enzyme inhibition
  • infection
  • inflammation
  • insulin
  • Protein crystallography
  • Protein function
  • Protein structure
  • Proteins
  • science policy
  • scientific leadership
  • superbugs
  • women in science

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