Web Access Research Portal

Researcher: Breadmore, MC (Professor Michael Breadmore)

Fields of Research

Separation science
Instrumental methods (excl. immunological and bioassay methods)
Cellular nervous system
Analytical chemistry
Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
Analytical spectrometry
Sensor technology (incl. chemical aspects)
Microtechnology
Medical biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)
Other chemical sciences
Plant physiology
Electroanalytical chemistry
Pharmaceutical sciences
Bioassays
Education assessment and evaluation
Colloid and surface chemistry
Polymers and plastics
Central nervous system
Theoretical and computational chemistry
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Biomechanical engineering
Pollution and contamination
Flow analysis
Higher education
Atmospheric composition, chemistry and processes
Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice
Analytical biochemistry
Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)
Receptors and membrane biology
Other physical sciences
Polymerisation mechanisms
Quality assurance, chemometrics, traceability and metrological chemistry
Supramolecular chemistry
Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry
Medical microbiology
Plant cell and molecular biology
Inorganic materials (incl. nanomaterials)
Materials engineering
Neurosciences
Chemical engineering
Food packaging, preservation and processing
Separation technologies
Metal organic frameworks
Animal immunology
Causes and prevention of crime
Wildlife and habitat management
Preventative health care
Microfluidics and nanofluidics
Chemical oceanography
Biomedical instrumentation
Medical biochemistry - amino acids and metabolites
Modelling and simulation
Manufacturing management
Additive manufacturing
Cell development, proliferation and death
Exploration geochemistry
Microbial ecology
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
Flexible manufacturing systems
Bioremediation
Environmentally sustainable engineering
Transport properties and non-equilibrium processes
Organic green chemistry
Wastewater treatment processes
Organometallic chemistry
Engineering practice and education
Biomedical engineering
Cancer cell biology
Medical biotechnology
Chemical engineering design
Primary health care
Inorganic geochemistry
Basic pharmacology
Bacteriology
Applications in health
Manufacturing processes and technologies (excl. textiles)
Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics)
Plant pathology
Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Engineering instrumentation
Medical biochemistry - nucleic acids
Composite and hybrid materials
Physical properties of materials
Biochemistry and cell biology
Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
Medical biochemistry - proteins and peptides (incl. medical proteomics)
Surface water quality processes and contaminated sediment assessment
Food chemistry and food sensory science
Industrial biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the chemical sciences
Clinical health
Scientific instruments
Measurement and assessment of freshwater quality (incl. physical and chemical conditions of water)
Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
National security
Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions
Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
Other environmental management
Expanding knowledge in the agricultural, food and veterinary sciences
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Expanding knowledge in the mathematical sciences
Soaps
Fisheries - aquaculture
Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences
Hardwood plantations
Other education and training
Coastal and estuarine systems and management
Measurement and assessment of marine water quality and condition
Paper products and pulp
Fabricated metal products
Expanding knowledge in engineering
Industrial instruments
Grains and seeds
Energy transmission and distribution (excl. hydrogen)
Sugar
Unprocessed or minimally processed milk
Behaviour and health
Soils
Expanding knowledge in the biomedical and clinical sciences
Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in terrestrial environments
Eggs
Nutrition
Coastal sea freight transport
Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum
Mining and extraction of aluminium ores
Ground water quantification, allocation and impact of depletion
Treatment of human diseases and conditions
Medical instruments
Non-dairy milk
Human pharmaceutical treatments
Law enforcement
Instrumentation
Management of liquid waste from manufacturing activities (excl. water)
Environmentally sustainable manufacturing activities
Mineral exploration
Health related to ageing
Other manufacturing
Preventive medicine
Alcoholic beverages
Applied computing
Barley
Machinery and equipment
Emerging defence technologies
Antarctic and Southern Ocean oceanic processes
Health inequalities
Management of liquid waste from mineral resource activities (excl. water)
Measurement and assessment of estuarine water quality
Terrestrial systems and management
Energy storage (excl. hydrogen and batteries)
Health protection and disaster response
Food safety
Environmentally sustainable mineral resource activities
Coated metal and metal-coated products
Water recycling services (incl. sewage and greywater)
Composite materials
Other health
Oils and fats (incl. margarines)
Essential oils

Career Best Publications

Approaches to enhancing the sensitivity of capillary electrophoresis methods for the determination of inorganic and small organic anions; Electrophoresis
Hydroxypropyl cellulose as an adsorptive coating sieving matrix for DNA separations: artificial neural network optimization for microchip analysis; Analytical Chemistry
Microchip-Based Purification of DNA from Biological Samples; Analytical Chemistry
On-Capillary Ion-Exchange Preconcentation of Inorganic Anions in Open-Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography with Elution Using Transient-Isotachophoretic Gradients. 2. Characterization of the Isotachophoretic Gradient; Analytical Chemistry
On-Column Ion-Exchange Preconcentration of Inorganic Anions in Open Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography with Elution Using Transient-Isotachophoretic Gradients. 3. Implementation and Method Development; Analytical Chemistry

Research Publications

Research Projects

2008 R2 - 92nd conference of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, Toronto, Canada; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
3D printed microchemical devices and systems; Australian Research Council (ARC)
A high speed, high fidelity 3D printer for fabricating microfluidic devices; Australian Research Council (ARC)
A Lab on a Chip for Stressing Neurons; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
A New Method for Characterisation of Antarctic Microbial Communities; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Advanced Capillary Electrophoresis Simulation Software; Australian Academy of Science (AASc)
Affordable approaches to rapid field test of soil chemical properties; CRC for High Performance Soils Ltd (HPS CRC)
ARC Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Australia-China Joint Research Centre for In-Line Chemical and Mineral Sensing for Sustainable Mineral Processing; Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER)
Automated Sensors for a wetland in a box; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Bioanalytical Microchips Based on Integrated, Application Tailored Monolithic Modules; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Chromatograhic and Electrophoretic Analysis of Explosive Residues; National Institute of Forensic Science (NIFS)
Collaboration on Multiple Research Projects all Related to Separation Science; Pfizer (PFIZER)
Determining brain health by analysing the blood: development of an aptamer based point of care device; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Developing biosensors for high throughput screening to detect those at risk of dementia; Perpetual Trustees (PT)
Development of A Commercial-Ready Pre-Blast Explosive Analyser for Inorganic-Based Homemade Explosive (HME) Screening; Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet (DPMC)
Development of Enhanced Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Explosive Trace Detection Systems; Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet (DPMC)
Establishment of a mouse model to study the biology of Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD); University of Tasmania Foundation Inc (UTF)
Field deployable unit for the detection of Perfluorinated contaminants CRC-P; Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DoIIS)
Fully-automated Direct-writing Lithography for Microchip Fabrication; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Glia and the progression of Parkinson's disease: Bystanders or villains?; National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Highly integrated miniaturised total analysis systems for pharmaceuticals in biological and environmental samples; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Hyphenated Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometer Facility; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Improving quality of wine maturation products through real-time analysis of oak wood volatiles; Wine Australia (WineAust)
Integrated Microfluidic Device for the Direct Analysis of Drugs and Metabolites in Biological Fluids; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Investigation into Capillary Electrophoresis ...... as a suitable method for pharmacokinetics of PG547; Progen Industries Ltd (PROGEN)
July 2011: MicroTAS 2011: The 15th International Conference on Minaturised Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Lab-on-a-chip system for microbial contamination; Australian Meat Processor Corporation Ltd (AMPC)
Microfluidic Manufacturing; Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE)
Microfluidic technology to help understand physical damage to brain cells; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Miniaturised electrophoretic systems for distributed environmental sensing; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Multi-Purpose Mass Spectrometry Facility; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Multidimensional Electroseparation Systems for the Analysis of Complex Biological Samples; Australian Research Council (ARC)
New Capillary Electrophorosis Methods for Characterisation of PI-88; Progen Industries Ltd (PROGEN)
Optimising oak expression in wine through real-time flavour profiling of maturation products; Wine Australia (WineAust)
Photoinitiated Macroporous Monolithic Membranes for Microchip Dialysis; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Polymer Inclusion Membranes for Electrokinetic Sampling and Separation; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Portable Multiplexed Electrophoretic and Chromatographic Systems for the Detection and Identification of Explosives; Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet (DPMC)
Pre-blast screening of Improvised Explosives Devices - a National Counter-terrorism Initiative; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Probing the Tasmanian Devil Serum Proteome for Preclinical Diagnosis of Devil Facial Tumour Disease; Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE Tas)
Probing the Tasmanian Devil Serum Proteome for Preclinical Diagnosis of Devil Facial Tumour Disease ; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Purchase of a new generation fast mapping Raman system; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Revolutionising a Lab-on-a-Chip by Integrating Polymer Electrodes; Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER)
Rising Stars; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Separation of Phospholipids from Soy Lecithin by Capillary Electrophoresis; Tasmanian Organics (TO)
To Bring 3 Plenary speakers to ANZNMF, AMN, ISMM and APCBM conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 26 to 29 June 2017; Ian Potter Foundation (IPF)
Ultra-High Resolution 3D Printer to make micron-sized structures and voids; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Using revolutionary real-time analyser technology to inform best practice environmental river management in Tasmania ; Ian Potter Foundation (IPF)
ARC College of Experts 2020 Nomination: Professor Michael Breadmore
Cation Chemistry for SIBR project
CE analysis of sulphated oligosaccharides
Ecodetection improvements
Electrophoretic analysis of Bayer Liquor for inorganic anions
Fast Fluidic Mircroanalysis
Grey Innovation HDR Sponsorship Program - Research on cation electrophoresis
GreyScan Prototype Development Support
GreyScan TVD Extension
ICG - GREYSCAN PTY LTD
Smart Operation of the Greyscan ETD 100 in Laboratory User Interface Mode
Support on commercialisation of GreyScan
Validation of Harvest instrument
Water monitoring systems for deployment at the Copping Waste Site
Electrohydrodynamic focusing in 2-dimensional planar microfluidic devices for preconcentration of low abundance bioanalytes
High Resolution Simulations of Capillary Electrophoresis

Research Candidate Supervision

An Investigation of Heavy Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Different Drugs and Herbal Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms from the Local Market
Analysis of Fucoidan and Its Potential Utility in Diabetes Management
Analysis of Pharmaceuticals in Environmental Water Samples by Capillary Electrophoresis
Biomarker Discovery for Pre-Clinical Diagnosis of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease
Capillary Electrophoresis of Ribosomal RNA for Characterisation of Microbial Communities
Consideration of Capillary Electrophoresis as an Analysis Technique for the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antipsychotics
Development of a novel ultrasensitive capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry system for the analysis of environmental pollutants
Development of Economical, Portable Chemical Sensing Systems
Development of Technique & Instrumentation For Pre-Blast Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)
In-Line Solid-Phase Extraction for Sensitivity Enhancement in Capillary Electrophoresis
Integrating Polyaniline- A New Electrode Material for Lab on a Chip Applications
Isotachophoresis (ITP) of Cells
Linking Detrimental Effects of Salinity on Leaf Photosynthesis with Ion Transport in Leaf Mesophyll
Microchip Methods for the Separation of Drugs and Metabolites in Biological and Environmental Samples
Microfluidic devices with integrated nanochannels for the concentration of pharmaceuticals from body fluids
Microfluidics in Bioanalytical Instrumentation
Multidimensional Separation Approaches for Complex Sample Analysis
Multiplexed Electrophoretic Systems for the Detection and Identification of Small Ions
New Capillary Electrophoresis Methods for the Analysis of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins
New Materials and Techniques for Miniaturised Chromatography
New Strategies to Improve the Sensitivity of Capillary Electrophoresis for Carbohydrate Analysis
OPTIOAK - Smelling the Good in Wood. Optimising Oak Aroma Profiles for the Wine Through Real-Time Aromatic Grading and Quality Control
The Microfluidic Device- A Novel In-Vitro Model of Traumatic Brain Injury