Professor Glenn Browning
Staff Profile:
Professor Glenn Browning BVSc (Hons) DipVetClinStud (Sydney) PhD (Melbourne)
Professor in Veterinary Microbiology
Professor Glenn Browning commenced employment with the Faculty of Veterinary Science in 1991, as a lecturer in Veterinary Microbiology. He has previously been employed by the Moredun Research Institute, in Edinburgh, Scotland and the University of Sydney.
Contact details:
Telephone: +613 8344 7342
Facsimile: +613 8344 7374
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Appointments:
Associate Dean – Research and Research Training
Teaching Responsibilities:
Second-Year Co-ordinator
250-201 Veterinary Microbiology
Co-ordinator Roles:
Second-Year Co-ordinator
Field of Expertise:
Bacterial and viral diseases of animals
Research Interests:
Treatment, Prevention, Diagnosis and Control of Bacterial and Viral Diseases of Animals
Molecular Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease
Mycoplasmas of Humans and Animals
Circoviruses
Diarrhoea Viruses of Animals
Escherichia coli in Animals
Chlamydia in Animals
Animal Vaccines
Bovine Mastitis and
Rhodococcus equine infections in horses
Current Research Projects:
Pathogenesis and epidemiology of colibacillosis in chickens
Molecular biology, pathogenesis and immunology of Mycoplasma infections in humans and domestic animals
Molecular biology, ecology, pathogenesis and immunology of Rhodococcus equi
Molecular biology and pathogenesis of chicken anaemia virus
Molecular epidemiology of mastitis pathogens of dairy cattle
Molecular epidemiology of infectious bronchitis virus
Molecular biology of infectious laryngotracheitis virus
Committee Memberships:
Member of the Faculty of Veterinary Science's Course and Assessment Comittee, the Executive Committee, the Planning and Resources Committee, the Selection Committee, the Selection Committee - Postgraduate Coursework Programs, the Unsatisfactory Progress Committee, the Veterinary Clinic and Hospital Board of Management, the Veterinary Research and Graduate Studies Committee and the Library Committee
Member of Research Groups:
Australian Poultry Co-operative Research Centre
Avian Health (Research Leader)
Microbiology (Research Leader)
Selected Publications:
AMAVISIT, P., LIGHTFOOT, D., BROWNING, G. F., and MARKHAM, P. F. - Variation between pathogenic serovars within Salmonella pathogenicity islands. Journal of Bacteriology.185:3624-3635 (2003)
MARKHAM, P. F., KANCI, A., CZIFRA, G., SUNDQVIST, B., and BROWNING, G. F. - Malp homologue of Mycoplasma gallisepticum is not essential for growth in vitro or in tracheal organ cultures. Journal of Bacteriology, 185:2538-2547 (2003).
PETERS, M. A., JACKSON, D. C., CRABB, B. S., and BROWNING, G. F. - Chicken Anemia virus VP2 is a novel dual specificity protein phosphatase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277: 39566-73 (2002).
PHUEKTES, P., MANSELL, P. D., DYSON, R. S., HOOPER, N. D., DICK, J. S., and BROWNING, G. F. - Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus uberis isolates from dairy cows with mastitis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39: 1460-1466 (2001).
MORTON, A. C., BEGG, A. P., ANDERSON, G., TAKAI, S., LÄMMLER, C., and BROWNING, G. F. - Epidemiology of Rhodococcus equi strains on Thoroughbred horse farms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 2167-2175 (2001).
WEINER, J., HERRMANN, R. and BROWNING, G. F. - Transcription in Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Nucleic Acids Research 28: 4488-4496 (2000).
GINNS, C. A., BENHAM, M. L., CRABB, B. S., BETTELHEIM, K. A., ADAMS, L. M., WHITHEAR, K. G., and BROWNING, G. F. - Colonisation of the respiratory tract by a virulent strain of avian Escherichia coli requires carriage of a conjugative plasmid. Infection and Immunity 68:1535-1541 (2000).
NOORMOHAMMADI, A. H., MARKHAM, P. F., KANCI, A., WHITHEAR, K. G., and BROWNING, G. F. - A novel mechanism for control of antigenic variation in the haemagglutinin gene family of Mycoplasma synoviae. Molecular Microbiology 35:911-923 (2000).
MARKHAM, P. F., GLEW, M. D., BROWNING, G. F., WHITHEAR, K. G., and WALKER, I. D. - Expression of two members of the pMGA gene family of Mycoplasma gallisepticum oscillates and is influenced by pMGA-specific antibodies. Infection and Immunity,66: 2845-2853 (1998).
GLEW, M. D., MARKHAM, P. F., BASEGGIO, N., BROWNING, G. F., and WALKER, I. D. - Expression of the pMGA genes of Mycoplasma gallisepticum is controlled by variation in the GAA trinucleotide repeat lengths within the noncoding regions. Infection and Immunity 66: 5833-5841 (1998)
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