Prior to embarking on a career in Veterinary Science, Dr Hayley Valentyne was a molecular biologist, working on projects in plant virology, human immunology and cancer research both within her home country of Australia and the UK. Wanting to pursue a clinical career, Hayley completed her Veterinary degree at the University of Sydney, Australia. Following this she spent some time in small animal general and emergency practice, in addition completion of a rotating internship. Her volunteer work with Pathologists at Taronga Zoo in Sydney sparked a passion for all things Pathology. Hayley now joins the Pathology team at RUSVM as the Intern/MSc candidate and is looking forward to returning to research and working with this talented team of Pathologists and clinicians.
EDUCATION
BSc (Hons I) Molecular cell biology and developmental biology, University of Queensland, Australia
MRes (Cancer Research), University of Southampton, UK
BVSc University of Sydney, Australia
CERTIFICATION
MRCVS
NBVME
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Emerging infectious disease
Virology
Parasitology
One Health
Wildlife
PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
Valentyne H, Spratt DM, Aghazadeh M, Jones MK, Šlapeta S (2020) The mitochondrial genome of Angiostrongylus mackerrasae is distinct from A. cantonensis and A. malaysiensis. Parasitology 147 (6): 681-688.
Thompson H, Botella J, Fairbairn D, Moyle R, Thomas JE, Sharman M, Aitken EA, Geering ADW (2005) Characterisation and detection of isometric viruses in pineapple. In ‘The Proceedings of the 15th biennial Australasian plant pathology conference’. P. 318. (Australasian Plant Pathology Society: Geelong. Vic)
Thompson H, Mansour S, Gadola SD (2007) The role of MR1 and semi invariant human Vα7.2-Jα33 T regulatory cells in rheumatoid arthritis. Manuscript in process, pending submission to Immunology.
Thompson H, Savelyeva N, Harden E, Stevenson FK (2007) Potato Virus X coat protein as an immunogenic carrier for cancer antigens: induction of immunity to breast cancer antigen Her-2. Manuscript in process and pending submission to Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy.
Kennedy A, Schmidt EM, Thompson H, Cribbs AP, Penn H, Amjadi P, Syed K, Read JE, Green P, Gregory B, Brennan FM (2012) A novel upstream enhancer of FOXP3, sensitive to methylation-induced silencing, exhibits dysregulated methylation in rheumatoid arthritis Treg cells. Manuscript prepared and pending submission to Journal of Immunology.
