This was a newspaper article title and I quite like it. One of my friends thought that it was an article about me….Why? You may ask.
My passion has always been all things fishy, however, my work has not always been solely fish. While working in the beautiful state of Tasmania, the Tasmanian devils were discovered to have been plagued by a devastating disease which we termed “devil facial tumour disease”. I was part of the initial team who investigated the disease and brought it to the attention of the officials. We found no evidence that it was caused by toxins, viruses or a number of other things, but it was a unique disease that was caused by an infectious cancer cell line that would spread from one animal to another by mechanical means. The work on my part at least, involved quite a lot of field work, laboratory work, weekend work, late nights, research and collaborations. I managed to publish a couple of seminal papers on the disease (in Veterinary Pathology) and produce a Masters thesis. For those who’re interested in things beyond fish, you may wish to peruse through my thesis which can be found at this link – http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/162
