Justin Yerbury

Justin John Yerbury, PhD, (born 3 May 1974), is an Australian molecular biologist, who is currently a National Health and Medical Research Council career development Fellow at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong.

Yerbury works in research of Protein misfolding, aggregation and neurodegenerative disease, protein aggregation and neuro-inflammation, propagation of protein misfolding and protein homeostasis and Motor Neurone Disease.

Publications include;

Roberts K, Zeineddine R, Corcoran L, Li W, Campbell IL, Yerbury JJ. (2013) Extracellular aggregated Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase activates microglia to give a cytotoxic phenotype. Glia. 61 (3), 409-419.

Yerbury JJ, Gower D, Vanags L, Roberts K, Lee J, Ecroyd H. (2013) The small heat shock proteins B-crystallin and Hsp27 suppress SOD1 aggregation in vitro. Cell Stress and Chaperones. 18(2), 251-257.

Bolognesi, B, Kumita JR, Barros TP, Esbjörner EK, Luheshi LM, Crowther DC, Wilson MR, Dobson CM, Favrin G & Yerbury JJ. (2010) ANS Binding Reveals Common Features of Cytotoxic Amyloid Species. ACS Chemical Biology. 2010 Aug 20;5(8):735-40.

Wilson MR, Yerbury JJ, Poon S. (2008) The role of extracellular chaperones in amyloid formation. Molecular BioSystems. 4, 42-52.

Yerbury, JJ, Poon, S, Meehan, S, Thompson, B, Kumita, JR, Dobson, CM and Wilson, MR. (2007) The extracellular chaperone clusterin influences amyloid formation and toxicity by interacting with pre-fibrillar structures. FASEB Journal 21: 2312-22 (IF 6.791, ranked 31/263)

Yerbury JJ, Stewart EM, Wyatt AR, Wilson MR. (2005) Quality control of protein folding in extracellular space. EMBO Reports 6: 1131-1136

Full list of publications; https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=hEpg_2IAAAAJ&hl=en

Basketball career

Yerbury played in the Illawarra Hawks Basketball team in the 1995 and 1996 NBL seasons.^[1]

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