Biography for Dr. Russell Connally
Russell E. Connally was employed as the firmware team leader with Siemens Access Control when he was awarded his BTech. Biotechnology degree in 1997 from Macquarie University. In 1999 he was invited to return to Macquarie University to commence a full-time MSc. on a project that required expertise in biology, electronics and software. As part of his MSc. project, he commissioned a flashlamp excited time-gated luminescence microscope. As the project grew, the MSc. was converted to a PhD and his thesis "Enhanced Detection of Microorganisms in Autofluorescent Environments Through the Application of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy" was accepted by Academic Senate in November 2004. Dr Connally won a prestigious Macquarie University Research Fellowship in 2005 (commencing in 2006) and in 2006 his team won the Macquarie University Innovation awards for Innovation in Research, Invention Disclosure Award and Postgraduate Innovation Award (for his student Dayong Jin). Dr. Connally's collaboration with Dr. Ray Hayek and Dr. Samar Hamid was also recognized at the 2007 Innovation Awards with the Invention Disclosure award for a programmable implantable extra-spinal electrical stimulator that Dr. Connally had designed. He currently manages the Biological Instrumentation Laboratory and leads an ARC linkage project with partners Olympus and Westmead Hospital for the rapid in-situ detection of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) using time-gated luminescence microscopy.
Publications
Invited Chapters
- Connally, R. and Piper, J. (2007) "Time Gated Luminescence Microscopy". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, accepted for publication Nov. 29, 2007.
- Connally, R. Morgan, C. and Vesey, G. (2007) FABLS book, chapter accepted for publication in August 2007.
Journal Articles
- Jin D, Connally R, Piper J. (2007) Practical time-gated luminescence flow cytometry. I: Concepts. Cytometry Part A, 71A(10):783-796.
- Jin D, Connally R, Piper J. (2007) Practical time-gated luminescence flow cytometry. II: Experimental evaluation using UV LED excitation. Cytometry Part A, 71A(10):797-808.
- Connally, R., Jin, D. and Piper, J. (2006) "High Intensity Solid-state UV Source for Time-Gated Luminescence Microscopy". Cytometry, Part A, 69A, 1020-1027.
- Jin, D., Connally, R., and Piper, J. (2006) "Long-lived visible luminescence of UV LEDs and impact on LED excited time-resolved fluorescence applications". Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 39, 461-465.
- Connally, R., Veal, D. and Piper, J. (2004) "Flashlamp excited time-resolved fluorescence microscope suppresses autofluorescence in water concentrates to deliver 11-fold increase in signal to noise ratio". Journal of Biomedical Optics, 9(4), 725-734
- Connally, R., Veal, D. and Piper, J. (2004) "Time-resolved fluorescence microscopy using an improved europium chelate BHHST for the in-situ detection of Cryptosporidium and Giardia". Microscopy Research Technique, 64(4), 312-322.
- Connally, R., Veal, D. and Piper, J. (2002) "High-resolution detection of fluorescently labelled microorganisms in environmental samples using time-resolved fluorescence microscopy". FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 41(3), 239-245.
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