Dr Tamsin Wesley

Current role

Laboratory Manager · since February 2025

Jolimont Laboratory, Fertility Control Clinic — East Melbourne

A working manager across both sides of the laboratory. On the bench: haematology, blood banking, biochemistry, microbiology and histology, through to authorising and issuing validated results. In management: quality control and accreditation against national standards, document control and audit readiness, reagent and equipment procurement, and the supervision and training of a multidisciplinary team.

Research focus

Plakin protein expression in epithelial ovarian cancer — its bearing on metastatic spread and epithelial–mesenchymal transition. Seven years of doctoral research at the Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute, Ballarat.

Publications

Wesley T, Escalona RM, Kannourakis G, Ahmed N. Plakin expression in serous epithelial ovarian cancer has the potential to impede metastatic spread and epithelial–mesenchymal transition. Cancers (Basel). 2024;16(23):4087.

Wesley T, Berzins S, Kannourakis G, Ahmed N. The attributes of plakins in cancer and disease: perspectives on ovarian cancer progression, chemoresistance and recurrence. Cell Communication and Signaling. 2021;19(1):55.

Credentials

PhD, Medical Science

Federation University Australia · 2023

MAppSc (Medical Science)

RMIT University · Distinction

BAppSc (Medical Science)

QUT · Distinction

Member, AIMS

Aust. Institute of Medical & Clinical Scientists

Previously

Fiona Elsey Cancer Research Institute, Ballarat · St John of God Pathology, Ballarat · Australian Dermatopathology Laboratory, Brisbane