Dr Katherine Pillman

Senior Research Fellow Centre for Cancer Biology

email Katherine.Pillman@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Biological Sciences
Genetics
Information and Computing Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2015	Thomson, DW, Pillman, KA, Anderson, ML, Lawrence, DM, Toubia, J, Goodall, G & Bracken, C 2015, 'Assessing the gene regulatory properties of Argonaute-bound small RNAs of diverse genomic origin', Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 470-481. Open access 35 31 2

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Orang, A, Warnock, N I, Migault, M, Dredge, BK, Bert, AG, Bracken, JM, Gregory, PA, Pillman, KA, Goodall, GJ & Bracken, CP 2025, 'Chasing non-existent 'microRNAs' in cancer', Oncogenesis, vol. 14, no. 1, article no. 10, pp. 1-10. Open access
2024	Khetan, R, Eldi, P, Lokman, NA, Ricciardelli, C, Oehler, MK, Blencowe, A, Garg, S, Pillman, K & Albrecht, H 2024, 'Unveiling G-protein coupled receptors as potential targets for ovarian cancer nanomedicines: from RNA sequencing data analysis to in vitro validation', Journal of Ovarian Research, vol. 17, article no. 156, pp. 1-13. Open access
2024	Liu, D, Dredge, BK, Bert, AG, Pillman, KA, Toubia, J, Guo, W, Dyakov, BJ, Migault, MM, Conn, VM, Conn, SJ, Gregory, PA, Gingras, A-C, Patel, D, Wu, B & Goodall, GJ 2024, 'ESRP1 controls biogenesis and function of a large abundant multiexon circRNA', Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 1387-1403. Open access 8 9 2
2024	Neumann, DP, Pillman, KA, Dredge, BK, Bert, AG, Phillips, CA, Lumb, R, Ramani, Y, Bracken, CP, Hollier, BG, Selth, LA, Beilharz, TH, Goodall, GJ & Gregory, PA 2024, 'The landscape of alternative polyadenylation during EMT and its regulation by the RNA-binding protein Quaking', RNA Biology, vol. 21, no. 1, article no. 100928, pp. 1-11. Open access 6 5 1
2024	Ngo, LH, Bert, AG, Dredge, BK, Williams, T, Murphy, V, Li, W, Hamilton, WB, Carey, KT, Toubia, J, Pillman, KA, Liu, D, Desogus, J, Chao, JA, Deans, AJ, Goodall, GJ & Wickramasinghe, VO 2024, 'Nuclear export of circular RNA', Nature, vol. 627, no 8002, pp. 212-220. 42 38 116
2023	Orang, A, Dredge, BK, Liu, CY, Bracken, JM, Chen, CH, Sourdin, L, Whitfield, HJ, Lumb, R, Boyle, ST, Davis, MJ, Samuel, MS, Gregory, PA, Khew-Goodall, Y, Goodall, GJ, Pillman, KA & Bracken, CP 2023, 'Basonuclin-2 regulates extracellular matrix production and degradation', Life Science Alliance, vol. 6, no. 10, article no. e202301984. Open access 1 1 2
2023	Sapkota, S, Pillman, KA, Dredge, BK, Liu, D, Bracken, JM, Kachooei, SA, Chereda, B, Gregory, PA, Bracken, CP & Goodall, GJ 2023, 'On the rules of engagement for microRNAs targeting protein coding regions', Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 51, no. 18, pp. 9938-9951. Open access 8 8 4
2023	Smith, MD, Leemaqz, SY, Jankovic-Karasoulos, T, McCullough, D, McAninch, D, Arthurs, AL, Breen, J, Roberts, CT & Pillman, KA 2023, 'DraculR: a Web-Based Application for In Silico Haemolysis Detection in High-Throughput microRNA Sequencing Data', Genes, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1-10. Open access 1
2022	Smith, MD, Leemaqz, SY, Jankovic-Karasoulos, T, McAninch, D, McCullough, D, Breen, J, Roberts, CT & Pillman, KA 2022, 'Haemolysis detection in microRNA-seq from clinical plasma samples', Genes, vol. 13, no. 7, article no. 1288, pp. 1-15. Open access 11 10 2
2022	Zhang, Y, Liu, L, Pillman, KA, Hayball, J, Su, YW & Xian, CJ 2022, 'Differentially expressed miRNAs in bone after methotrexate treatment', Journal of Cellular Physiology, vol. 237, no. 1, pp. 965-982. Open access 3 5
2021	Fernandes, RC, Toubia, J, Townley, S, Hanson, AR, Dredge, BK, Pillman, KA, Bert, AG, Gregory, PA, Goodall, GJ & Selth, LA and 12 other authors 2021, 'Post-transcriptional gene regulation by microRNA-194 promotes neuroendocrine transdifferentiation in prostate cancer', Cell Reports, vol. 34, no. 1, article no. 108585, pp. 1-24. Open access 36 35 120
2021	Smith, MD, Pillman, K, Jankovic-Karasoulos, T, McAninch, D, Wan, Q, Bogias, KJ, McCullough, D, Bianco-Miotto, T, Breen, J & Roberts, CT 2021, 'Large-scale transcriptome-wide profiling of microRNAs in human placenta and maternal plasma at early to mid gestation', RNA Biology, vol. 18, no. S1, pp. 507-520. Open access 21 21 44
2020	Saunders, K, Bert, AG, Dredge, BK, Toubia, J, Gregory, PA, Pillman, KA, Goodall, GJ & Bracken, CP 2020, 'Insufficiently complex unique-molecular identifiers (UMIs) distort small RNA sequencing', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-9. Open access 12 9 9
2019	Pillman, KA, Goodall, GJ, Bracken, CP & Gantier, MP 2019, 'miRNA length variation during macrophage stimulation confounds the interpretation of results: implications for miRNA quantification by RT-qPCR', Rna-A Publication of the Rna Society, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 232-238. Open access 15 15 1
2019	Pillman, KA, Scheer, KG, Hackett-Jones, E, Saunders, K, Bert, AG, Toubia, J, Whitfield, HJ, Sapkota, S, Sourdin, L, Pham, H, Le, TD, Cursons, J, Davis, MJ, Gregory, PA, Goodall, GJ & Bracken, CP 2019, 'Extensive transcriptional responses are co-ordinated by microRNAs as revealed by Exon-Intron Split Analysis (EISA)', Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 47, no. 16, pp. 8606-8619. Open access 6 5 5
2018	Cursons, J, Pillman, KA, Scheer, KG, Gregory, PA, Foroutan, M, Hediyeh-Zadeh, S, Toubia, J, Crampin, EJ, Goodall, GJ, Bracken, CP & Davis, MJ 2018, 'Combinatorial targeting by microRNAs co-ordinates post-transcriptional control of EMT', Cell Systems, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 77-91. Open access 73 67 28
2018	Nejad, C, Pillman, KA, Siddle, KJ, Pépin, G, Anko, ML, McCoy, CE, Beilharz, TH, Quintana-Murci, L, Goodall, GJ, Bracken, CP & Gantier, MP 2018, 'miR-222 isoforms are differentially regulated by type-I interferon', Rna-A Publication of the Rna Society, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 332-341. Open access 29 26 2
2018	Pillman, KA, Phillips, CA, Roslan, S, Toubia, J, Dredge, BK, Bert, AG, Lumb, R, Neumann, DP, Li, X, Conn, SJ, Liu, D, Bracken, CP, Lawrence, DM, Schreiber, AW, Khew-Goodall, Y, Goodall, GJ & Gregory, PA and 4 other authors 2018, 'miR‐200/375 control epithelial plasticity‐associated alternative splicing by repressing the RNA‐binding protein Quaking', The EMBO Journal, vol. 37, no. 13, article no. e99016, pp. 1-20. Open access 86 84 15
2017	Yu, F, Pillman, KA, Neilsen, CT, Toubia, J, Lawrence, DM, Tsykin, A, Gantier, MP, Callen, DF, Goodall, GJ & Bracken, CP 2017, 'Naturally existing isoforms of miR-222 have distinct functions', Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 45, no. 19, pp. 1137-11385. Open access 60 56 7
2015	Conn, SJ, Pillman, KA, Toubia, J, Conn, VM, Salmanidis, M, Phillips, CA, Roslan, S, Schreiber, AW, Gregory, PA & Goodall, GJ 2015, 'The RNA binding protein quaking regulates formation of circRNAs', Cell, vol. 160, no. 6, pp. 1125-1134. Open access 1716 1659 21
2015	Thomson, DW, Pillman, KA, Anderson, ML, Lawrence, DM, Toubia, J, Goodall, G & Bracken, C 2015, 'Assessing the gene regulatory properties of Argonaute-bound small RNAs of diverse genomic origin', Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 470-481. Open access 35 31 2
2015	Yu, F, Bracken, CP, Pillman, KA, Lawrence, DM, Goodall, GJ, Callen, DF & Neilsen, PM 2015, 'p53 represses the oncogenic Sno-MiR-28 derived from a SnoRNA', PLoS One, vol. 10, no. 6, article no. e0129190, pp. 1-20. Open access 61 55 5
2014	Bracken, CP, Li, X, Wright, JA, Lawrence, DM, Pillman, KA, Salmanidis, M, Anderson, MA, Dredge, BK, Gregory, PA, Tsykin, A, Neilsen, C, Thomson, DW, Bert, AG, Leerberg, JM, Yap, AS, Jensen, KB, Khew-Goodall, Y & Goodall, GJ 2014, 'Genome-wide identification of miR-200 targets reveals a regulatory network controlling cell invasion', The EMBO Journal, vol. 33, no. 18, pp. 2040-2056. Open access 123 120
2014	Salmanidis, M, Pillman, K, Goodall, G & Bracken, C 2014, 'Direct transcriptional regulation by nuclear microRNAs', The International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, vol. 54, pp. 304-311. 69 59
2013	Attema, JL, Bert, AG, Lim, Y-Y, Kolesnikoff, N, Lawrence, DM, Pillman, KA, Smith, E, Drew, PA, Khew-Goodall, Y, Shannon, F & Goodall, GJ 2013, 'Identification of an enhancer that increases miR-200b~429 gene expression in breast cancer cells', PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1-15. Open access 20 18
2013	Eini, O, Yang, N, Pyvovarenko, T, Pillman, K, Bazanova, N, Tikhomirov, N, Eliby, S, Shirley, N, Sivasankar, S, Tingey, S, Langridge, P, Hrmova, M & Lopato, S 2013, 'Complex regulation by Apetala2 domain-containing transcription factors revealed through analysis of the stress-responsive TdCor410b promoter from durum wheat', PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 3, article no. e58713, pp. 1-19. Open access 29 27
2013	Jeknić, Z, Pillman, KA, Dhillon, T, Skinner, JS, Veisz, O, Cuesta-Marcos, A, Hayes, PM, Jacobs, AK, Chen, TH & Stockinger, EJ 2013, 'Hv-CBF2A overexpression in barley accelerates COR gene transcript accumulation and acquisition of freezing tolerance during cold acclimation', Plant Molecular Biology: An International Journal on Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, vol. 84, no. 1-2, pp. 67-82. Open access 49 44

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Central Queensland University	AUSTRALIA
DuPont	UNITED STATES
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research	SWITZERLAND
Harvard University	UNITED STATES
Hungarian Academy of Sciences	HUNGARY
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre	UNITED STATES
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Mount Sinai Hospital	UNITED STATES
Ohio State University	UNITED STATES
Oregon State University	UNITED STATES
Queensland University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Royal Adelaide Hospital	AUSTRALIA
SA Pathology	AUSTRALIA
South Australian Health and Medical and Research Institute (SAHMRI)	AUSTRALIA
St Vincent's Hospital	AUSTRALIA
St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research	AUSTRALIA
Sun Yat-Sen University	CHINA
Telethon Kids Institute	AUSTRALIA
The Institut Pasteur	FRANCE
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Basel	SWITZERLAND
University of Canberra	AUSTRALIA
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Toronto	CANADA
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Invited Speaker Genome Biology Symposium, Queenstown Molecular Biology	2017
Invited Speaker Australasian Genomic Technologies Association (AGTA) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand	2016
Invited Speaker and Workshop Organiser Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) BioInfoSummer Symposium, Adelaide	2016
Winner, BioInfoSummer Programming Competition Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) BioInfoSummer Symposium	2015
Winner, BioInfoSummer Programming Competition Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) BioInfoSummer Symposium	2014

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
110423 - Tackling Neuroblastoma using a multi-omics bioinformatics approach	Current
110943 - Re-examining fundamental assumptions about microRNAs	Current
111069 - Illuminating the function of alternative splicing in cancer using CRISPR-based screens	Current
MicroRNAs involved in neuroblastoma	Current
Targeting oncogenic signalling with custom RNA drugs	Current

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Dr Katherine Pillman

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Winner, BioInfoSummer Programming Competition

Winner, BioInfoSummer Programming Competition

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