Staff Profile:
Dr Bernd Kalinna BSc (Hons) PhD DSc
Associate Professor
Dr Bernd Kalinna commenced employment with the Faculty of Veterinary Science in 2007, as a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Animal Biotechnology, heading the schistosome research group. He has previously been employed as Associate Professor, Head Schistosomiasis Laboratory, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Humboldt-University, Berlin (Germany).
Contact details:
Telephone: 03 8344 8805
Facsimile: 03 9347 4083
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Field of Expertise:
Parasite vaccines, helmith parasite transfection
Research Interests:
Biology of Schistosomes, Transfection of Schistosomes, Immunity to Schistosomiasis, Vaccine and drug development
Current Research Projects:
Development of a transgenesis system for schistosomes
Member of Research Groups:
Centre for Animal Biotechnology
Selected Publications:
Kines, K. J., Mann, V. H., Morales, M. E., Shelby, B. D., Kalinna, B. H., Gobert, G. N., Chirgwin, S. R. & Brindley, P. J. (2006). Transduction of Schistosoma mansoni by vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein-pseudotyped Moloney murine leukemia retrovirus. Experimental Parasitology, 112, 209-220.
Kalinna, B. H., Pillai, S., Liebau, E., Hartmann, S., Theuring, F. & Lucius, R. (2006). Studies on Acanthocheilonema viteae cystatin: Genomic organization, promoter studies and expression in Caenorhabditis elegans. Filaria J., 4:9.
Hartmann S., Sereda M.J., Sollwedel A., Kalinna B.H., Lucius R. (2006). A nematode allergen elicits protection against challenge infection under specific conditions. Vaccine, 24, 3581–3590.
Copeland, C.S., Mann, V.H., Morales, M.E., Kalinna, B.H. & Brindley, P.J. (2005). The Sinbad retrotransposon from the genome of the human blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni, and the distribution of related Pao-like elements, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 5:20
Schulmeister, A., Heyers, O., Brindley, P.J., Morales, M.E., Meusel, G., Lucius, R. & Kalinna, B.H. (2005). Organization and functional analysis of the Schistosoma mansoni aspartic protease promoter. BBA Gene Structure and Expression, 1727, 27-34.
Morales, M.E., Kalinna, B.H., Heyers, O., Mann, V.H., Schulmeister, A., Copeland, C.S., Loukas, A. & Brindley, P.J. (2004). Genomic organization of the Schistosoma mansoni aspartic protease gene, a platyhelmith ortologue of mammalian lysosomal cathepsin D. Gene, 338, 99-109.
Copeland, C. S., Heyers, O., Kalinna, B. H., Bachmair, A., Stadler, P. F., Hofacker, I. L. & Brindley, P. J. (2004). Structural and evolutionary analysis of the transcribed sequence of Boudicca, a Schistosoma mansoni retrotransposon. Gene, 329, 103-114.
Heyers, O., Walduck, A. K., Brindley, P. J., Bleiß, W., Lucius, R., Dorbic, T., Wiittig, B. & Kalinna, B. H. (2003). Schistosoma mansoni miracidia transformed by particle bombardment infect Biomphalaria glabrata snails and develop into transgenic sporocysts. Experimental Parasitology 105, 174–178.
Copeland, S. C., Brindley, P. J., Michael, S. F., Johnston, D. A., Williams, D. J., Heyers, O. & Kalinna, B. H. (2003). Boudicca, a retrovirus-like, LTR retrotransposon from the genome of the human blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni. Journal of Virology, 77, 6153-6166
Kalinna, B. H., Brindley, P. J., Wong, J. Y. M., Bogitsch, B. J., King, L. T., Smyth, D. J., Verity, C. K., Abbenante, A., Brinkworth, R. I., Fairlie, D., Smythe, M. L., Milburn, P. J., Bielefeldt-Ohmann, H., Zheng, Y. & McManus, D. P. (2001). Proteolysis of human hemoglobin by schistosome cathepsin D. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol., 112, 125-137.