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  • Transcriptomics
  • CRISPR
  • Single cell biology

About

Stephin completed his PhD at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2015 studying transcriptional regulation in breast cancer. After completing his degree he joined the lab of Professor Ricky Johnstone at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Here he developed his own independent research lines investigating fundamental mechanisms of RNA Polymerase II mediated gene regulation and the targeting thereof in cancer.

At the start of 2022, Stephin started his own lab at WEHI in Melbourne in the Epigenetics and Development division.

His work is supported by two prestigious fellowships from the Snow Medical Research Organisation and CSL.

Publications

Selected publications from Dr Stephin Vervoort

Lelliott EJ, Naddaf J, Ganio K, Michie J, Wang S, Liu L, Silke N, Ahn A, Ramsbottom KM, Brennan AJ, Freeman AJ, Goel S, Vervoort SJ, Kearney CJ, Beavis PA, McDevitt CA, Silke J, Oliaro J. Intracellular zinc protects tumours from T cell-mediated cytotoxicity. Cell Death & Differentiation. 2024;31(12):10.1038/s41418-024-01369-4

Costacurta M, Sandow JJ, Maher B, Susanto O, Vervoort SJ, Devlin JR, Garama D, Condina MR, Steele JR, Kahrood HV, Gough D, Johnstone RW, Shortt J. Mapping the IMiD‐dependent cereblon interactome using BioID‐proximity labelling. The FEBS Journal. 2024;291(22):10.1111/febs.17196

Todorovski I, Tsang M-J, Feran B, Fan Z, Gadipally S, Yoannidis D, Kong IY, Bjelosevic S, Rivera S, Voulgaris O, Zethoven M, Hawkins ED, Simpson KJ, Arnau GM, Papenfuss AT, Johnstone RW, Vervoort SJ. RNA kinetics influence the response to transcriptional perturbation in leukaemia cell lines. NAR Cancer. 2024;6(4):10.1093/narcan/zcae039

Djajawi TM, Wichmann J, Vervoort SJ, Kearney CJ. Tumor immune evasion: insights from CRISPR screens and future directions. The FEBS Journal. 2024;291(7):10.1111/febs.17003

Djajawi TM, Pijpers L, Srivaths A, Chisanga D, Chan KF, Hogg SJ, Neil L, Rivera SM, Bartonicek N, Ellis SL, Lim Kam Sian TCC, Faridi P, Liao Y, Pal B, Behren A, Shi W, Vervoort SJ, Johnstone RW, Kearney CJ. PRMT1 acts as a suppressor of MHC-I and anti-tumor immunity. Cell Reports. 2024;43(3):10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113831

House IG, Derrick EB, Sek K, Chen AXY, Li J, Lai J, Todd KL, Munoz I, Michie J, Chan CW, Huang Y-K, Chan JD, Petley EV, Tong J, Nguyen D, Engel S, Savas P, Hogg SJ, Vervoort SJ, Kearney CJ, Burr ML, Lam EYN, Gilan O, Bedoui S, Johnstone RW, Dawson MA, Loi S, Darcy PK, Beavis PA. CRISPR-Cas9 screening identifies an IRF1-SOCS1-mediated negative feedback loop that limits CXCL9 expression and antitumor immunity. Cell Reports. 2024;43(2):10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113793

House IG, Derrick EB, Sek K, Chen AXY, Li J, Lai J, Todd KL, Munoz I, Michie J, Chan CW, Huang Y-K, Chan JD, Petley EV, Tong J, Nguyen D, Engel S, Savas P, Hogg SJ, Vervoort SJ, Kearney CJ, Burr ML, Lam EYN, Gilan O, Bedoui S, Johnstone RW, Dawson MA, Loi S, Darcy PK, Beavis PA. CRISPR-Cas9 screening identifies an IRF1-SOCS1-mediated negative feedback loop that limits CXCL9 expression and antitumor immunity. Cell Reports. 2023;42(8):10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113014

Peeters JGC, Boltjes A, Scholman RC, Vervoort SJ, Coffer PJ, Mokry M, Vastert SJ, van Wijk F, van Loosdregt J. Epigenetic changes in inflammatory arthritis monocytes contribute to disease and can be targeted by JAK inhibition. Rheumatology. 2023;62(8):10.1093/rheumatology/kead001

Kong IY, Trezise S, Light A, Todorovski I, Arnau GM, Gadipally S, Yoannidis D, Simpson KJ, Dong X, Whitehead L, Tempany JC, Farchione AJ, Sheikh AA, Groom JR, Rogers KL, Herold MJ, Bryant VL, Ritchie ME, Willis SN, Johnstone RW, Hodgkin PD, Nutt SL, Vervoort SJ, Hawkins ED. Epigenetic modulators of B cell fate identified through coupled phenotype-transcriptome analysis. Cell Death & Differentiation. 2022;29(12):10.1038/s41418-022-01037-5

Hogg SJ, Motorna O, Kearney CJ, Derrick EB, House IG, Todorovski I, Kelly MJ, Zethoven M, Bromberg KD, Lai A, Beavis PA, Shortt J, Johnstone RW, Vervoort SJ. Distinct modulation of IFNγ-induced transcription by BET bromodomain and catalytic P300/CBP inhibition in breast cancer. Clinical Epigenetics. 2022;14(1):10.1186/s13148-022-01316-5

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