Timothy completed his PhD in discovering bioactive peptides in Australian snake venom in 2014 at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience UQ. He joined QBI in 2015 as a chemical analyst investigating the effects of low maternal vitamin D on newborns. Timothy joined ENTOX/QAEHS in 2016 and manages the Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry platforms of the group. This area facilitates the measurement of small, often polar molecules of environmental interest including pesticides, PFAS, PPCP’s and illicit drugs in a range of matrices. QAEHS is equipped with a powerful suite of LCMS instruments to facilitate this analysis, including a SCIEX 5500Qtrap, 6500Qtrap, and a 6500QQQ for quantitative work, plus a SCIEX X500R and 5600+ for high resolution research. In addition, the facility operates and maintains a SCIEX 7500 as part of a collaboration project and has access to a SCIEX 7500 demonstration mass spectrometer.
Journal Articles
Zheng, Qiuda, Dewapriya, Pradeep, Eaglesham, Geoff, Reeks, Tim, Thompson, Jack, Ahmed, Fahad, Prasad, Pritesh, Thomas, Kevin V., Mueller, Jochen F. and Thai, Phong K. (2022). Direct injection analysis of oxypurinol and metformin in wastewater by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. Drug Testing and Analysis, 14 (8), 1519-1524. doi: 10.1002/dta.3266
Gallen, C., Bignert, A., Taucare, G., O'Brien, J., Braeunig, J., Reeks, T., Thompson, J. and Mueller, J.F. (2022). Temporal trends of perfluoroalkyl substances in an Australian wastewater treatment plant: a ten-year retrospective investigation. Science of the Total Environment, 804 150211, 150211. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150211
Lin, Xialu, Choi, Phil M., Thompson, Jack, Reeks, Timothy, Verhagen, Rory, Tscharke, Benjamin J., O’Malley, Elissa, Shimko, Katja M., Guo, Xiong, Thomas, Kevin V. and O’Brien, Jake W. (2021). Systematic evaluation of the in-sample stability of selected pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, and their metabolites in wastewater. Environmental Science and Technology, 55 (11) acs.est.1c00396, 7418-7429. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c00396
Thomas, Marie C., Flores, Florita, Kaserzon, Sarit, Reeks, Timothy A. and Negri, Andrew P. (2020). Toxicity of the herbicides diuron, propazine, tebuthiuron, and haloxyfop to the diatom Chaetoceros muelleri. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 19592, 19592. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-76363-0
Zheng, Qiuda, Eaglesham, Geoff, Tscharke, Benjamin J., O'Brien, Jake W., Li, Jiaying, Thompson, Jack, Shimko, Katja M., Reeks, Tim, Gerber, Cobus, Thomas, Kevin V. and Thai, Phong K. (2020). Determination of anabasine, anatabine, and nicotine biomarkers in wastewater by enhanced direct injection LC-MS/MS and evaluation of their in-sewer stability. Science of The Total Environment, 743 140551, 140551. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140551
Moe, Aung Aung Kywe, Medely, Gregory A., Reeks, Timothy, Burne, Thomas H. J. and Eyles, Darryl W. (2017). Short- and long-term effects of risperidone on catalepsy sensitisation and acquisition of conditioned avoidance response: adolescent vs adult rats. Pharmacological Research, 121, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2017.04.013
Lefevre, Emilia M., Medley, Gregory A., Reeks, Timothy, Alexander, Suzy, Burne, Thomas H. J. and Eyles, Darryl W. (2017). Effect of the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist RU486 on MK-801 induced behavioural sensitization. PLoS One, 12 (4) e0176156, e0176156. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176156
Reeks, Timothy, Lavergne, Vincent, Sunagar, Kartik, Jones, Alun, Undheim, Eivind, Dunstan, Nathan, Fry, Bryan and Alewood, Paul F. (2016). Deep venomics of the Pseudonaja genus reveals inter- and intra-specific variation. Journal of Proteomics, 133, 20-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.11.019
Reeks, T. A., Fry, B. G. and Alewood, P. F. (2015). Privileged frameworks from snake venom. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 72 (10) 1844, 1939-1958. doi: 10.1007/s00018-015-1844-z
Reeks, Timothy, Jones, Alun, Brust, Andreas, Sridharan, Sindhuja, Corcilius, Leo, Wilkinson, Brendan L., Thaysen-Andersen, Morten, Payne, Richard J., Kini, R. Manjunatha, Daly, Norelle L. and Alewood, Paul F. (2015). A defined α-Helix in the bifunctional O-Glycosylated Natriuretic Peptide TcNPa from the venom of Tropidechis carinatus. Angewandte Chemie: International Edition, 54 (16), 4828-4831. doi: 10.1002/anie.201411914
Wang, Ching-I Anderson, Reeks, Timothy, Vetter, Irina, Vergara, Irene, Kovtun, Oleksiy, Lewis, Richard J., Alewood, Paul F. and Durek, Thomas (2014). Isolation and structural and pharmacological characterization of α-elapitoxin-Dpp2d, an amidated three finger toxin from black mamba venom. Biochemistry, 53 (23), 3758-3766. doi: 10.1021/bi5004475
Thesis
Reeks, Timothy (2015). Discovery and characterisation of novel low molecular weight bioactive peptides from Australian elapid venom. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.580
Research Reports
Kaserzon, Sarit, Shiels, Ryan, Li, Yan, Paxman, Chris, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Carswell, Christina, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Bowman, Jasper, Xia, Summer, Schulze, Bastian, Thompson, Kristie and Mueller, Jochen (2022). Catchment and drinking water quality micro pollutant monitoring program – passive sampling report 17 – winter 2022. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences.
Tscharke, B, O'Brien, J., Reeks, T., Elisei, G., Grant, S., Mueller, J., Thomas, K., Ghetia, M., Bade, R., Nguyen, L., Gerber, C. and White, J. (2019). National wastewater drug monitoring program - report 8. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).
Tscharke, B., Reeks, T., Elisei, G., O'Brien, J., Grant, S., Mueller, J., Thomas, K., Ghetia, M., Bade, R., Nguyen, L., Gerber, C. and White, J. (2019). National wastewater drug monitoring program - report 7. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).
Yeh, Ruby Yu-Lu, Thompson, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Gallen, Christie, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Verhagen, Rory, Vijayasarathy, Soumini, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Jiang, Hui, Eaglesham, Geoff, Mueller, Jochen and Kaserzon, Sarit (2018). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring program – Passive Sampling. Report 9 – Winter 2018. Woolloongabba, QLD Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences.
Kaserzon, Sarit, Yeh, Ruby Yu-Lu, Thompson, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Gallen, Christie, Elisei, Gabriele, Prasad, Pritesh, Schacht, Veronika, Van Niekerk, Sean, Verhagen, Rory, Vijayasarathy, Soumini, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Jiang, Hui, Eaglesham, Geoff and Mueller, Jochen (2018). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring Program – Passive Sampling Report 8 – Summer 2018. Ipswich, QLD, Australia: Seqwater.
Kaserzon, Sarit, Thompson, Kristie, Paxman, Chris, Gallen, Christie, Elisei, Gabriele, Mackie, Rachel, Gallen, Michael, Reeks, Tim, Jiang, Hui, Eaglesham, Geoff, Samanipour, Saer and Mueller, Jochen (2018). Catchment and Drinking Water Quality Micro Pollutant Monitoring Program – Passive Sampling. Report 7 – Winter 2017. Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences.