Dr Shannon Joseph
Research Fellow
Frazer Institute
+61 7 344 36919

Researcher biography
I completed my PhD at the Institute for Molecular Biology at UQ and have ~10 years experience in biochemistry and cell biology. I am currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the lab of A Prof Fiona Simpson at UQ Frazer Institute, TRI. My current research interests are focussed on intracellular protein trafficking, in particular how this relates to monoclonal antibody therapies and biomarkers for cancer treatment with overall aspirations to improve patient outcomes. I lead Simpson lab teams involved in translating this work into clinical trials and analysing how drug pharmacokinetics can be improved.
Book Chapter
Joseph, Shannon R., Endo-Munoz, Liliana, Gaffney, Daniel C., Saunders, Nicholas A. and Simpson, Fiona (2015). Dysregulation of epidermal growth factor receptor in actinic keratosis and squamous cell carcinoma. Actinic keratosis. (pp. 20-27) edited by H. Peter Soyer, Tarl W. Prow and Gregor B.E. Jemec. Basel, Switzerland: S Karger AG. doi: 10.1159/000367959
Journal Articles
Banushi, Blerida, Joseph, Shannon R., Lum, Benedict, Lee, Jason J. and Simpson, Fiona (2023). Endocytosis in cancer and cancer therapy. Nature Reviews Cancer, 23 (7), 1-24. doi: 10.1038/s41568-023-00574-6
Tran, Thao Thanh, Mathmann, Carmen D., Gatica-Andrades, Marcela, Rollo, Rachel F., Oelker, Melanie, Ljungberg, Johanna K., Nguyen, Tam T. K., Zamoshnikova, Alina, Kummari, Lalith K., Wyer, Orry J. K., Irvine, Katharine M., Melo-Bolívar, Javier, Gross, Annette, Brown, Darren, Mak, Jeffrey Y. W., Fairlie, David P., Hansford, Karl A., Cooper, Matthew A., Giri, Rabina, Schreiber, Veronika, Joseph, Shannon R., Simpson, Fiona, Barnett, Timothy C., Johansson, Jörgen, Dankers, Wendy, Harris, James, Wells, Timothy J., Kapetanovic, Ronan, Sweet, Matthew J. ... Blumenthal, Antje (2022). Inhibition of the master regulator of Listeria monocytogenes virulence enables bacterial clearance from spacious replication vacuoles in infected macrophages. PLoS Pathogens, 18 (1) e1010166, e1010166. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010166
McInerney-Leo, Aideen M., Chew, Hui Yi, Inglis, Po-Ling, Leo, Paul J., Joseph, Shannon R., Cooper, Caroline L., Okano, Satomi, Hassall, Tim, Anderson, Lisa, Bowman, Rayleen V., Gattas, Michael, Harris, Jessica E., Marshall, Mhairi S., Shaw, Janet G., Wheeler, Lawrie, Yang, Ian A., Brown, Matthew A., Fong, Kwun M., Simpson, Fiona and Duncan, Emma L. (2021). Germline ERBB3 mutation in familial non-small cell lung carcinoma: expanding ErbB’s role in oncogenesis. Human Molecular Genetics, 30 (24), 2393-2401. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddab172
Karlsen, Emma-Anne, Kahler, Sam, Tefay, Joan, Joseph, Shannon R. and Simpson, Fiona (2021). Epidermal growth factor receptor expression and resistance patterns to targeted therapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a review. Cells, 10 (5) 1206, 1206. doi: 10.3390/cells10051206
Joseph, Shannon R., Lum, Benedict, Banushi, Blerida, Barry, Rachael, Panizza, Benedict, Walpole, Euan and Simpson, Fiona (2020). Antibody/ligand-target receptor internalization assay protocol using fresh human or murine tumor ex vivo samples. STAR Protocols, 1 (2) 100087, 100087. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100087
Chew, Hui Yi, De Lima, Priscila O., Gonzalez Cruz, Jazmina L., Banushi, Blerida, Echejoh, Godwins, Hu, Lingbo, Joseph, Shannon R., Lum, Benedict, Rae, James, O'Donnell, Jake S., Merida de Long, Lilia, Okano, Satomi, King, Brigid, Barry, Rachael, Moi, Davide, Mazzieri, Roberta, Thomas, Ranjeny, Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes, Fernando, Foote, Matthew, McCluskey, Adam, Robinson, Phillip J., Frazer, Ian H., Saunders, Nicholas A., Parton, Robert G., Dolcetti, Riccardo, Cuff, Katharine, Martin, Jennifer H., Panizza, Benedict, Walpole, Euan ... Simpson, Fiona (2020). Endocytosis Inhibition in Humans to Improve Responses to ADCC-Mediating Antibodies. Cell, 180 (5), 895-914.e27. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.019
de Lima, Priscila Oliveira, Joseph, Shannon, Panizza, Benedict and Simpson, Fiona (2020). Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor’s Function in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Its Role as a Therapeutic Target in the Age of Immunotherapies. Current Treatment Options in Oncology, 21 (1) 9, 9. doi: 10.1007/s11864-019-0697-3
Joseph, Shannon R., Gaffney, Daniel, Barry, Rachael, Hu, Lingbo, Banushi, Blerida, Wells, James W., Lambie, Duncan, Strutton, Geoff, Porceddu, Sandro V., Burmeister, Bryan, Leggatt, Graham R., Schaider, Helmut, Dolcetti, Riccardo, Frazer, Ian H., Saunders, Nicholas A., Foote, Matthew, Soyer, H. Peter and Simpson, Fiona (2018). An ex vivo human tumour assay reveals distinct patterns of EGFR trafficking in squamous cell carcinoma correlating to therapeutic outcomes. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 139 (1), 213-223. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.06.190
He, Xuzhi, Cruz, Jazmina L., Joseph, Shannon, Pett, Nicola, Chew, Hui Yi, Tuong, Zewen K., Okano, Satomi, Kelly, Gabrielle, Veitch, Margaret, Simpson, Fiona and Wells, James W. (2018). Characterization of 7A7, an anti-mouse EGFR monoclonal antibody proposed to be the mouse equivalent of cetuximab. Oncotarget, 9 (15), 12250-12260. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.24242
Daniel, James A., Chau, Ngoc, Abdel-Hamid, Mohammed K., Hu, Lingbo, von Kleist, Lisa, Whiting, Ainslie, Krishnan, Sai, Maamary, Peter, Joseph, Shannon R., Simpson, Fiona, Haucke, Volker, McCluskey, Adam and Robinson, Philip J. (2015). Phenothiazine-derived antipsychotic drugs inhibit dynamin and vlathrin-mediated endocytosis. Traffic, 16 (6), 635-654. doi: 10.1111/tra.12272
Joseph, Shannon, Hu, Lingbo and Simpson, Fiona (2011). KIAA0101 (KIAA0101). Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
Desclozeaux, Marion, Venturato, Juliana, Wylie, Fiona G., Kay, Jason G., Joseph, Shannon R., Le, Huong T. and Stow, Jennifer L. (2008). Active Rab11 and functional recycling endosome are required for E-cadherin trafficking and lumen formation during epithelial morphogenesis. Americal Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology, 295 (2), C545-C556. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00097.2008
Bryant, D. M., Kerr, M. C., Hammond, L. A., Joseph, S. R., Mostov, K. E., Teasdale, R. D. and Stow, J. L. (2007). EGF induces macropinocytosis and SNX1-modulated recycling of E-cadherin. Journal of Cell Science, 120 (10), 1818-1828. doi: 10.1242/jcs.000653
Pagan, J. K., Wylie, F. G., Joseph, S. R., Widberg, C., Bryant, N. J., James, D. E. and Stow, J. L. (2003). The t-SNARE syntaxin 4 is regulated during macrophage activation to function in membrane traffic and cytokine secretion. Current Biology, 13 (2), 156-160. doi: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00006-X
Miranda, K. C., Joseph, S. R., Yap, A. S., Teasdale, R. D. and Stow, J. L. (2003). Contextual binding of p120ctn to E-cadherin at the basolateral plasma membrane in polarized epithelia. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278 (44), 43480-43488. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M305525200
Le, T. L., Joseph, S. R., Yap, A. S. and Stow, J. L. (2002). Protein kinase C regulates endocytosis and recycling of E-cadherin. American Journal of Physiology-cell Physiology, 283 (2), C489-C499. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00566.2001
Conference Papers
Stow, J, Bryant, D and Joseph, S (2004). Endocytosis of E-cadherin in polarized epithelia - Joint regulation of growth factor receptor internalisation and signaling. Experimental Biology 2004 Meeting, Washington Dc, Apr 17-21, 2004. BETHESDA: FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL.
Joseph, SR, Miranda, KC and Stow, JL (2002). p120ctn binds to the cadherin/catenin complex only after delivery to the basolateral plasma membrane in MDCK cells. 42nd Annual Meeting of the American-Society-for-Cell-Biology, San Francisco California, Dec 14-18, 2002. BETHESDA: AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY.
Thesis
Joseph, Shannon Rose (2007). The exocytic and endocytic trafficking of E-cadherin in epithelial cells. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/158535