Doctor Slade Jensen

Doctor Slade Jensen

SENIOR LECTURER,
School of Medicine

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of Sydney

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • School of Medicine

Contact

Email:S.Jensen@uws.edu.au
Extension:6882
Mobile:0430133589
Location:Off Campus
Website:

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Van Hal, S., Jensen, S., Vaska, V., Espedido, B., Paterson, D. and Gosbell, I. (2012), 'Predictors of Mortality in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.', Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 25.
  • Van Hal, S., Jensen, S., Vaska, V., Espedido, B., Paterson, D. and Gosbell, I. (2012), 'Predictors of mortality in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia', Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 25.
  • Espedido, B., Espedido, B., Jensen, S., Jensen, S., Steen, J., Barbagiannakos, T., Mercer, J., Paterson, D., Grimmond, S., Cooper, M., Gosbell, I., Gosbell, I. and Van Hal, S. (2012), 'Carriage of an ACME II variant may have contributed to methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 239-like strain replacement in Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia', Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 4.
  • Liew, A., Theis, T., Jensen, S., Garcia-Lara, J., Foster, S., Firth, N., Lewis, P. and Harry, E. (2011), 'A simple plasmid-based system that allows rapid generation of tightly controlled gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus', Microbiology, 11.
  • Shearer, J., Lindsay, J., Bayles, K., Nicholson, A., O'Brien, F., Jensen, S., Firth, N., Skurray, R., Summers, A., Wireman, J., Hostetler, J., Forberg, H., Borman, J., Gill, J., Sanchez, S., Mankin, A., Jensen, S. and LaMarre, J. (2011), 'Major Families of Multiresistant Plasmids from Geographically and Epidemiologically Diverse Staphylococci', G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 11.
  • Shearer, J., Lindsay, J., Bayles, K., Nicholson, A., O'Brien, F., Jensen, S., Firth, N., Skurray, R., Summers, A., Wireman, J., Hostetler, J., Forberg, H., Borman, J., Gill, J., Sanchez, S., Mankin, A., Jensen, S. and LaMarre, J. (2011), 'Major Families of Multiresistant Plasmids from Geographically and Epidemiologically Diverse Staphylococci', G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 11.
  • Kwong, S., Jensen, S. and Firth, N. (2010), 'Prevalence of Fst-like toxin-antitoxin systems', Microbiology, 3.
  • Howden, B., Davies, J., Johnson, P., Stinear, T., Seeman, T., Harrison, P., Mcevoy, C., Stanton, J., Rand, C., Mason, C., Jensen, S. and Firth, N. (2010), 'Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus strain JKD6008, a ST239 clone of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with intermediate level vancomycin resistance.', Journal of Bacteriology, 2.
  • Jensen, S., Apisiridej, S., Kwong, S., Yang, Y., Skurray, R. and Firth, N. (2010), 'Analysis of the prototypical Staphylococcus aureus multiresistance plasmid pSK1.', Plasmid, 8.
  • Ni, L., Jensen, S., Tonthat, N., Berg, T., Kwong, S., Guan, F., Brown, M. and Skurray, R. (2009), 'The Staphylococcus aureus pSK41 plasmid-encoded ArtA protein is a master regulator of plasmid transmission genes and contains a RHH motif used in alternate DNA-binding modes.', Nucleic Acids Research, 14.
  • Jensen, S. and Lyon, B. (2009), 'Genetics of antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus aureus', Future Microbiology, 13.
  • Jensen, S., Kwong, S., Lyon, B. and Firth, N. (2008), 'Evolution of multiple drug resistance in staphylococci Slade', Microbiology Australia, 5.
  • Lebard, R., Jensen, S., Arnaiz, I., Skurray, R. and Firth, N. (2008), 'A multimer resolution system contributes to segregational stability of the prototypical staphylococcal conjugative multiresistance plasmid pSK41.', F E M S Microbiology Letters, 10.
  • Schumacher, M., Glover, T., Brzoska, A., Jensen, S., Dunham, T., Skurray, R. and Firth, N. (2007), 'Segrosome structure revealed by a complex of ParR with centromere DNA.', Nature, 4.
  • Jensen, S., Thompson, L. and Harry, E. (2005), 'Cell Division in Bacillus subtilis: FtsZ and FtsA Association Is Z-Ring Independent, and FtsA Is Required for Efficient Midcell Z-Ring Assembly', Journal of Bacteriology, 9.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Mechanisms of stable gene inheritance in multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus [via USYD - no funding to UWS]
Years:2012-01-01 - 2014-12-31
ID:P00020687
UWS Researchers:Slade Jensen
Funding:
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Mechanism(s) of Daptomycin Resistance in MRSA and VRE Clinical Isolates
Years:2012-11-15 - 2013-12-15
ID:P00021229
UWS Researchers:Slade Jensen
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Previous Projects

Title:Type Ib Partitioning Systems of Staphylococcal Resistance Plasmids
Years:2010-11-30 - 2012-02-29
ID:P00019605
UWS Researchers:Slade Jensen
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

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