B Applied Science, M Philosophy, PhD

Research Member, Australian Rivers Institute
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, Logan

Contact details for Doctor Glendon Shaw

Research Interests

• The toxicology of marine algal toxins
• Ecology of freshwater cyanobacteria.
• Health and ecological risk assessment of anthropogenic and natural toxins in the environment.
• Methods for analysis of freshwater and marine algal toxins.
• Water chlorination disinfection byproducts.
• The toxicology of freshwater algal toxins

Publications

• Senogles-Derham, P-J, Seawright, AA, Shaw, G, Wickramasinghe, W and Shahin, M. (2003). Toxicological aspects of treatment to remove cyanobacterial toxins from drinking water determined using the heterozygous P53 transgenic mouse model. Toxicon, 41, 979-988.
• Burgess, VB, Zhang, Y, Eaglesham, GK, Tzang, CH, Yang, Z, Shaw, GR, Lam, PKS, Mengsu, Y and Moore, MR (2003). Investigation of changes in cell cycle distribution in cultured HepG2 cells with the pectenotoxin-2 seco acids. Title: Molluscan Shellfish Safety, Editors: Antonio Villalba, Beatriz Reguera, Jesús L. Romalde, Ricardo Beiras, Consellería de Pesca e Asuntos Marítimos da Xunta de Galicia and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp97-105.
• Nicholson, B.C., Shaw, G.R., Morrall, J., Senogles, P.-J., Woods, T.A., Papageorgiou, J., Kapralos, C., Wickramasinghe, W., Davis, B.C., Eaglesham G.K. and Moore, M.R. (2003), "Chlorination for degrading saxitoxins (paralytic shellfish poisons) in water", Environmental Technology, 24, 1341-1348
• Moore, D., O'Donohue, M., Shaw, G., and Critchley, C. (2003).  Potential triggers for akinete differentiation in an Australian strain of the cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (AWT 205/1).  Hydrobiologia 506(1):175 - 180.
• Hoeger, SJ, Shaw, G, Hitzfeld, BC and Dietrich, DR (2004). Occurrence and elimination of cyanobacterial toxins in two Australian drinking water treatment plants. Toxicon, 43 (6), 639-649.
• Moore, D., McGegror, G.B., and Shaw, G. (2004) "Morphological changes during akinete germination in Cylindrspermopsis raciborskii (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) Journal of Phycology, 40, 1098
• Moore, D, O’Donohue, M, Garnett, C, Critchley, C and Shaw, G (2005). Factors affecting akinete differentiation in Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria), Freshwater Biology, 50, 345-352.
• Capper, A, Tibbetts, I, O’Neil, J and Shaw, GR (2005), The fate of Lyngbya majuscula in three potential consumers. J. Chem. Ecol., 31, 7, 1595-1606.
• Ho. L., Wijesundara, S., Shaw, G., O’Donohue, M., Saint, C., Newcombe, G. (2005). Biological filtration processes for the removal of algal metabolites. Water, 32, NO5, 64-68.
• Sadler, R, Seawright, A, Shaw, G, Dennison, N, Connell, D, Barron, W and White, P (2005) Bioaccumulation of organochlorine pesticides from contaminated soil by cattle.  Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, 87 (4), 575-582.
• Hawkins, PR, Novic, S, Cox, P, Neilan, BA, Burns, BP, Shaw, G, Wickramasinghe, W, Peerapornpisal, Y, Ruangyuttikarn, W, Itayama, T, Saitou, T, Mizouchi,M and Inamori, Y (2005) A review of analytical methods for assessing the public health risk from microcystin in the aquatic environment, Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology – Aqua, 54. 8. 509-518.
  
• Stewart I, Robertson IM, Webb PM, Schluter PM, Shaw GR. (2006) Cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions to freshwater cyanobacteria – human volunteer studies. BMC Dermatol  6:6
• Stewart I, Seawright AA, Schluter PJ, Shaw GR. (2006) Primary irritant and delayed-contact hypersensitivity reactions to the freshwater cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and its associated toxin cylindrospermopsin. BMC Dermatol  6:5.
• Stewart I, Webb PM, Schluter PJ, Shaw GR. (2006) Recreational and occupational field exposure to freshwater cyanobacteria – a review of anecdotal and case reports, epidemiological studies and the challenges for epidemiologic assessment. Environ Health, 5:6.
• Stewart I, Schluter PJ, Shaw GR. (2006) Cyanobacterial lipopolysaccharides and human health – a review. Environ Health, 5:7
• Seifert, M, McGregor, G, Eaglesham, G, Wickramasinghe, W and Shaw, G (2006). First evidence for the production of cylindrospermopsin and deoxycylindrospermopsin by the freshwater benthic cyanobacterium, Lyngbya wollei (Farlow ex Gomont) Speziale and Dyck, Journal of Harmfull Algae 6, 73-80.
• Arthur, K, Shaw, G., Limpus, C and Udy, J. (2006). A review of the potential role of tumour promoting compounds produced by Lyngbya majuscula in turtle fibropapillomatosis. African Journal of Marine Science, 28 (2), 441-446.
• Arthur, KE, Limpus, CJ, Roelfsema, CM, Udy, JW and Shaw, GR, (2006) A bloom of Lyngbya majuscula in Shoalwater Bay, Queensland, Australia: An important feeding ground for the green turtle (Chelonia mydas), Harmful Algae, 5, 251-265.
• Osborne, N, Webb, P and Shaw, G (2007). Health Effects of Recreational Exposure to Moreton Bay, Australia Waters during a Lyngbya majuscula Bloom Environment International. 33 (3): 309-314
• Takahashi, E, Yu, Q, Eaglesham, G, Connell, D, McBrook, J and Shaw, G (2007). Occurrence and seasonal variations of algal toxins in water, phytoplankton and shellfish from North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia Marine Environmental Research 64, 429-442.
• Arthur, K, Limpus, C, Balazs, G, Capper, A, Udy, J, Shaw, G and Keuper-Benett, U. (2007). The exposure of green turtles Chelonia mydas) to tumour promoting compounds produced by the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula and their potential role in the aetiology of fibropapillomatosis Harmful algae, 7, 114-125.
• Shaw, G and Lam, P (2007). Health aspects of freshwater cyanobacterial toxins. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 7(2,) 193-203.
• Bain, P, Shaw, G. and Patel, B (2007). Induction of P53-Regulated Gene Expression in Human Cell Lines Exposed to the Cyanobacterial Toxin Cylindrospermopsin. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A: 70:19, 1687-1693
• Neumann, C, Bain, P and Shaw, G (2007). Studies of the Comparative In Vitro Toxicology of the Cyanobacterial Metabolite, Deoxycylindrospermopsin, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A 70:19, 1679-1686.
• Stewart, IR, Seawright, AA and Shaw, GR (2007). Cyanobacterial poisoning in livestock, wild mammals and birds – an overview. In: Proceedings of the Interagency, International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms, K. Hudnell Ed., Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 599-623.
• Azavedo, MFO, Chernoff, N, Falconer, IR, Gage, M, Hilborn, ED, Hooth, MJ, Jensen, K, MacPhail, R, Rogers, E, Shaw, GR and Stewart, IR (2007). Human Health Effects Workgroup Report. In: Proceedings of the Interagency, International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms, K. Hudnell Ed., Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 565-592.