Elizabeth Tran

Dr Elizabeth Tran

School of Biological Sciences

College of Sciences


Date Position Institution name
2023 - ongoing Principal Scientist GPN vaccines
2022 - 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
2022 - ongoing Visiting Research Fellow University of Adelaide
2011 - 2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Adelaide
2008 - 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Technology Sydney

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Vietnamese -

Date Institution name Country Title
2008 University of Adelaide Australia PhD (BioSci - Microbiology)
2003 University of South Australia Australia Bachelor of Laboratory Medicine with Honours

Year Citation
2025 Eichner, H., Wu, C., Cammer, M., Tran, E. N. H., Hirst, T. R., Paton, J. C., & Weiser, J. N. (2025). Intra-serotype variation of Streptococcus pneumoniae capsule and its quantification.. Microbiology Spectrum, 13(4), e0308724-1-e0308724-18.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC2
2023 Shah, M. V., Tran, E. N. H., Shah, S., Chhetri, R., Baranwal, A., Ladon, D., . . . Hiwase, D. K. (2023). TP53 mutation variant allele frequency of ≥10% is associated with poor prognosis in therapy-related myeloid neoplasms. Blood Cancer Journal, 13(1), 51-1-51-9.
DOI Scopus33 WoS33 Europe PMC30
2023 Sharplin, K., Proudman, W., Chhetri, R., Tran, E. N. H., Choong, J., Kutyna, M., . . . Hiwase, D. (2023). A Personalized Risk Model for Azacitidine Outcome in Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Other Myeloid Neoplasms Identified by Machine Learning Model Utilizing Real-World Data. Cancers, 15(16), 1-14.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC3
2023 Ascari, A., Frölich, S., Zang, M., Tran, E. N. H., Wilson, D. W., Morona, R., & Eijkelkamp, B. A. (2023). Shigella flexneri remodeling and consumption of host lipids during infection. Journal of Bacteriology, 205(12), 1-18.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC3
2023 Hiwase, D. K., Hahn, C. N., Tran, E. N. H., Chhetri, R., Baranwal, A., Al-Kali, A., . . . Shah, M. V. (2023). TP53 mutation in therapy-related myeloid neoplasm defines a distinct molecular subtype. Blood, 141(9), 1087-1091.
DOI Scopus30 WoS27 Europe PMC27
2022 Shultz, C. T., Al-Kali, A., Baranwal, A., Chhetri, R., Tran, E. N. H., Arsana, A., . . . Shah, M. (2022). Characteristics and Outcomes of Radiation Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasms. BLOOD, 140(Supplement 1), 6309-6311.
DOI
2022 Ascari, A., Tran, E. N. H., Eijkelkamp, B. A., & Morona, R. (2022). Detection of a disulphide bond and conformational changes in Shigella flexneri Wzy, and the role of cysteine residues in polymerase activity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 1864(5), 183871-1-183871-12.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC7
2022 Teh, M. Y., Tran, E. N. H., & Morona, R. (2022). Bacteriophage Sf6 host range mutant that infects Shigella flexneri serotype 2a₂ strains. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 369(1), 1-5.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2 Europe PMC2
2022 Maczuga, N., Tran, E. N. H., Qin, J., & Morona, R. (2022). Interdependence of Shigella flexneri O Antigen and Enterobacterial Common Antigen Biosynthetic Pathways. Journal of Bacteriology, 204(4), 1-16.
DOI Scopus16 WoS16 Europe PMC19
2022 Maczuga, N. T., Tran, E. N. H., & Morona, R. (2022). Topology of the Shigella flexneri Enterobacterial Common Antigen polymerase WzyE. Microbiology, 168(4), 001183-1-001183-11.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC6
2022 Ascari, A., Tran, E. N. H., Eijkelkamp, B. A., & Morona, R. (2022). Identification of the Shigella flexneri Wzy Domain Modulating
WzzpHS-2 Interaction and Detection of the Wzy/Wzz/Oag
Complex. Journal of Bacteriology, 204(9), e0022422-1-e0022422-18.

DOI Scopus10 WoS10 Europe PMC12
2022 Maczuga, N., Tran, E. N. H., & Morona, R. (2022). Subcellular localization of the enterobacterial common antigen GT-E-like glycosyltransferase, WecG. Molecular Microbiology, 118(4), 403-416.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC4
2022 Kutyna, M. M., Kok, C. H., Lim, Y., Tran, E. N. H., Campbell, D., Paton, S., . . . Hiwase, D. K. (2022). A senescence stress secretome is a hallmark of therapy-related myeloid neoplasm stromal tissue occurring soon after cytotoxic exposure. Leukemia, 36(11), 2678-2689.
DOI Scopus17 WoS17 Europe PMC17
2022 Shah, M., Hahn, C. N., Tran, E. N. H., Sharplin, K. M., Chhetri, R., Baranwal, A., . . . Hiwase, D. (2022). <i>TP53</i> Mutation Status Defines a Distinct Clinicopathological Entity of Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasm, Characterized By Genomic Instability and Extremely Poor Outcome. BLOOD, 140(Supplement 1), 9798-9799.
DOI WoS2
2021 Leo, V., Teh, M. Y., Tran, N., & Morona, R. (2021). Identification of a region in Shigella flexneri WzyB disrupting the interaction with WzzpHS2. Journal of Bacteriology, 203(22), e00413-21-1-e00413-21-15.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5 Europe PMC7
2020 Qin, J., Doyle, M. T., Tran, E. N. H., & Morona, R. (2020). The virulence domain of Shigella IcsA contains a subregion with specific host cell adhesion function.. PLoS One, 15(1), e0227425-1-e0227425-19.
DOI Scopus15 WoS15 Europe PMC16
2020 Tran, E. N. H., Day, C. J., McCartney, E., Poole, J., Tse, E., Jennings, M. P., & Morona, R. (2020). Shigella flexneri targets human colonic goblet cells by O antigen binding to Sialyl-Tn and Tn antigens via glycan-glycan interactions. ACS Infectious Diseases, 6(10), 2604-2615.
DOI Scopus11 WoS11 Europe PMC11
2020 Leo, V., Tran, N., & Morona, R. (2020). Polysaccharide co-polymerase WzzB/WzzE chimeras reveal transmembrane 2 region of WzzB is important for interaction with WzyB. Journal of Bacteriology, 203(6), 1-14.
DOI Scopus15 WoS12 Europe PMC15
2020 Tran, N. H., Day, C. J., Poole, J., Jennings, M. P., & Morona, R. (2020). Specific blood group antibodies inhibit Shigella flexneri interaction with human cells in the absence of spinoculation. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 521(1), 131-136.
DOI Scopus5 WoS4 Europe PMC4
2019 Helbig, K. J., Teh, M. Y., Crosse, K. M., Monson, E. A., Smith, M., Tran, E. N., . . . Beard, M. R. (2019). The interferon stimulated gene viperin, restricts Shigella. flexneri in vitro.. Sci Rep, 9(1), 15598.
DOI Scopus20 WoS19 Europe PMC18
2016 Papadopoulos, M., Tran, E., Murray, G., & Morona, R. (2016). Conserved transmembrane glycine residues in the shigella flexneri polysaccharide co-polymerase protein WzzB influence protein-protein interaction. Microbiology, 162(6), 921-929.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5 Europe PMC7
2016 Standish, A., Teh, M., Tran, E., Doyle, M., Baker, P., & Morona, R. (2016). Unprecedented abundance of protein tyrosine phosphorylation modulates Shigella flexneri virulence. Journal of Molecular Biology, 428(20), 4197-4208.
DOI Scopus21 WoS21 Europe PMC21
2015 Nath, P., Tran, E., & Morona, R. (2015). Mutational analysis of the Shigella flexneri O-antigen polymerase Wzy: Identification of Wzz-dependent Wzy mutants. Journal of Bacteriology, 197(1), 108-119.
DOI Scopus17 WoS16 Europe PMC18
2015 Doyle, M., Tran, E., & Morona, R. (2015). The passenger-associated transport repeat promotes virulence factor secretion efficiency and delineates a distinct autotransporter subtype. Molecular microbiology, 97(2), 315-329.
DOI Scopus11 WoS8 Europe PMC9
2015 Tran, E., Attridge, S., Teh, M., & Morona, R. (2015). Shigella flexneri cell-to-cell spread, and growth and inflammation in mice, is limited by the outer membrane protease IcsP. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 362(12), fnv088-1-fnv088-8.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2015 Chang, C., Tran, E., Ericsson, D., Casey, L., Lonhienne, T., Benning, F., . . . Kobe, B. (2015). Structural and biochemical analysis of a single amino-acid mutant of WzzBSF that alters lipopolysaccharide O-antigen chain length in shigella flexneri. PLoS One, 10(9), e0138266-1-e0138266-21.
DOI Scopus13 WoS11 Europe PMC7
2015 Day, C., Tran, E., Semchenko, E., Tram, G., Hartley-Tassell, L., Ng, P., . . . Jennings, M. (2015). Glycan: glycan interactions: high affinity biomolecular interactions that can mediate binding of pathogenic bacteria to host cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(52), E7266-E7275.
DOI Scopus107 WoS103 Europe PMC83
2014 Tran, N., Papadopoulos, M., & Morona, R. (2014). Relationship between O-antigen chain length and resistance to colicin E2 in Shigella flexneri. Microbiology, 160(3), 589-601.
DOI Scopus30 WoS28 Europe PMC30
2014 Tran, E. N. H., Doyle, M. T., & Morona, R. (2014). Correction: LPS unmasking of Shigella flexneri reveals preferential localisation of tagged outer membrane protease IcsP to septa and new poles (PLoS ONE (2013) 8, 7 (e70508) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070508). Plos One, 9(10), 5 pages.
DOI
2013 George, D., Stephenson, D., Tran, E., Morona, R., & Verma, N. (2013). Complete genome sequence of SfII, a serotype-converting bacteriophage of the highly prevalent Shigella flexneri serotype 2a. Genome Announcements, 1(5), e00626-13.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC7
2013 Tran, N., Doyle, M., & Morona, R. (2013). LPS unmasking of Shigella flexneri reveals preferential localisation of tagged outer membrane protease IcsP to septa and new poles. PLoS One, 8(7), 1-16.
DOI Scopus16 WoS17 Europe PMC14
2013 Tran, N., & Morona, R. (2013). Residues located inside the Escherichia coli FepE protein oligomer are essential for lipopolysaccharide O-antigen modal chain length regulation. Microbiology, 159(4), 701-714.
DOI Scopus18 WoS17 Europe PMC18
2012 Teh, M., Tran, N., & Morona, R. (2012). Absence of O antigen suppresses Shigella flexneri IcsA autochaperone region mutations. Microbiology, 158(11), 2835-2850.
DOI Scopus12 WoS13 Europe PMC12

Year Citation
2023 Shah, M. V., Kutyna, M., Shah, S., Tran, E. N. H., Baranwal, A., Ladon, D., . . . Hiwase, D. (2023). Comparison of World Health Organization and International Consensus Classification Guidelines for Myeloid Neoplasms Harboring TP53-Mutations Using an Independent International Cohort. In BLOOD Vol. 142 (pp. 4 pages). CA, San Diego: ELSEVIER.
DOI WoS4
2022 Kok, C. H., Tran, E. N. H., Ladon, D., Chhetri, R., Baranwal, A., Sharplin, K. M., . . . Hiwase, D. (2022). Personalized Prediction Model to Risk Stratify Patients with Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasms. In BLOOD Vol. 140 (pp. 6962-6963). LA, New Orleans: ELSEVIER.
DOI

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Enterobacterial Common Antigen Biosynthesis in Shigella flexneri Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nicholas Tadeusz Maczuga
2017 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Investigation of the Wzy O Antigen Polymerase and the Wzz Co-Polymerase Interface Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Vincenzo Leo

Connect With Me

External Profiles

Other Links