Brock Peake

Mr Brock Peake

Research Associate

School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

College of Health


I am a Research Associate within the Population Health Chemistry Group, working in the field of wastewater-based epidemiology. My current research focuses on novel psychoactive substances (NPS), with a particular emphasis on nitazenes, investigating their presence and trends in wastewater and drug paraphernalia. I have strong technical expertise in molecular biology techniques and analytical chemistry, applying these skills to chemical surveillance and population health research.

Wastewater monitoring for novel psychoactive substances

drug residue analysis of paraphernalia 

Year Citation
2026 Keller, E. L., Peake, B., Simpson, B. S., Longo, M., White, J. M., & Gerber, C. (2026). Traces of Use: Uncovering Drug Use Insights From Paraphernalia Analysis.. Drug and alcohol review, 45(1), e70105.
DOI Europe PMC1
2026 Donnellan, L., Young, C., Seidel, J. D., Peake, B., Lau, D., Deo, P., & Hoffmann, P. (2026). An Investigation into the Differentiation of Lactyllysine and Carboxyethyllysine Peptide Modifications by Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Proteome Research, 25(3), 1601-1610.
DOI
2025 Keller, E. L., Peake, B., Simpson, B. S., White, J. M., & Gerber, C. (2025). National Wastewater-Based Surveillance of Nitazenes and Xylazine in Australia: Emerging Trends. ACS ES&T WATER, 6(1), 6 pages.
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2025 Keller, E. L., Peake, B., Simpson, B. S., White, J. M., & Gerber, C. (2025). Comprehensive method to detect nitazene analogues and xylazine in wastewater. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, online(57), 1-8.
DOI Scopus7 Europe PMC4
2025 Keller, E. L., Peake, B., Simpson, B. S., Longo, M., Trobbiani, S., White, J. M., & Gerber, C. (2025). Searching for a needle in a haystack: chemical analysis reveals nitazenes found in drug paraphernalia residues. Drug and Alcohol Review, 45(1), 1-6.
DOI Scopus3 WoS5 Europe PMC2
2023 Wong, H. Y., Jaunay, E. L., Lau, W. C. D., Peake, B., Ram, R., Southgate, P. C., & Deo, P. (2023). Holothuria scabra Jaegar 1833 (Sandfish) extracts and collagens modulate protein-bound Nε-epsilon-carboxymethyllysine, Nε-epsilon-carboxyethyllysine and methylglyoxal-derived hydroimidazolone-1 levels. International Journal Of Food Science And Technology, 58(4), 1962-1969.
DOI Scopus1
2022 Peake, B., Ghetia, M., Gerber, C., Costabile, M., & Deo, P. (2022). Role of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids on dicarbonyl–albumin derived advanced glycation end products in vitro. Amino Acids, 54(5), 721-732.
DOI Scopus6 WoS4 Europe PMC1
2020 Deo, P., Dhillon, V. S., Lim, W. M., Jaunay, E. L., Donnellan, L., Peake, B., . . . Fenech, M. (2020). Advanced glycation end-products accelerate telomere attrition and increase pro-inflammatory mediators in human WIL2-NS cells. Mutagenesis, 35(3), 291-297.
DOI Scopus19 WoS19 Europe PMC13
2020 Deo, P., Chern, C., Peake, B., & Tan, S. Y. (2020). Non-nutritive sweeteners are in concomitant with the formation of endogenous and exogenous advanced glycation end-products. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 71(6), 706-714.
DOI Scopus21 WoS18 Europe PMC6

Year Citation
2019 Deo, P., Chern, C., Peake, B., & Tan, S. Y. (2019). The Formation of Endogenous and Exogenous Advanced Glycation End-Products From Non-Nutritive Sweeteners. In ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM Vol. 75 (pp. 261). KARGER.

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