School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster

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Publications

Coghlan A*, Partridge FA*, Duque-Correa MA*, Rinaldi G*, Clare S, Seymour L, Brandt C, Mkandawire TT, McCarthy C, Holroyd N, Nick M, Brown AE, Tonitiwong S, Sattelle DB, Berriman M (*contributed equally)
A drug repurposing screen for whipworms informed by comparative genomics.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2023 17(9): e0011205. [link] [pdf] [preprint]

Nick M, Partridge FA, Forman R, Bataille CJR, Else KJ, Russell AJ, Sattelle DB
Screening the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) Pandemic Response Box chemical library on Caenorhabditis elegans identifies re-profiled candidate anthelmintic drug leads
Front. Trop. Dis. 2022 3:1017900. doi: 10.3389/fitd.2022.1017900 [link] [pdf] [preprint]

Forman R, Partridge FA, Sattelle DB, Else KJ
Un-‘Egg’-Plored: Characterisation of Embryonation in the Whipworm Model Organism Trichuris muris
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases 2021 2, 45 [link] [pdf]

Partridge FA*, Poulton BC*, Lake, MAI*, Lees, RA, Mann H-J, Lycett GJ, Sattelle DB (*contributed equally)
Actions of camptothecin derivatives on larvae and adults of the arboviral vector Aedes aegypti
Molecules 2021 26, 6226 [link] [pdf] [preprint]

Buckingham SD*, Partridge FA*, Poulton BC*, Miller BS*, McKendry RA, Lycett GJ, Sattelle DB (*contributed equally)
Automated phenotyping of mosquito larvae enables high-throughput screening for novel larvicides and smartphone-based detection of larval insecticide resistance
PLOS Negl Trop Dis 2021 15(6): e0008639 [link] [pdf] [preprint]

Partridge FA*, Bataille CJR*, Forman R*, Marriott AE*, Forde-Thomas J*, Häberli C*, Dinsdale RL, O’Sullivan JDB, Willis N, Wynne GM, Whiteland H, Archer J, Steven A, Keiser J, Turner JD, Hoffmann KF, Taylor MJ, Else KJ, Russell AJ, Sattelle DB (*contributed equally)
Structural requirements for dihydrobenzoxazepinone anthelmintics: actions against medically important and model parasites - Trichuris muris, Brugia malayi, Heligmosomoides polygyrus and Schistosoma mansoni
ACS Infectious Diseases 2021 7, 1260−1274 [link] [pdf] [preprint]

Partridge FA*, Forman R*, Bataille CJR*, Wynne GM, Nick M, Russell AJ, Else KJ, Sattelle DB (*contributed equally)
Anthelmintic drug discovery: target identification, screening methods and the role of open science
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020 16, 1203–1224. [link] [pdf]

Faravelli G*, Raimondi S*, Marchese L, Partridge FA, Soria C, Mangione PP, Canetti D, Perni M, Aprile FA, Zorzoli I, Di Schiavi E, Lomas DA, Bellotti V, Sattelle DB, Giorgetti S (*contributed equally)
C. elegans expressing D76N β2-microglobulin: a model for in vivo screening of drug candidates targeting amyloidosis.
Sci Rep 2019 9, 1–10 [link] [pdf]

Matthews BJ*, Dudchenko O*, Kingan SB*, Koren, S, Antoshechkin I, Crawford JE, Glassford WJ, Herre M, Redmond SN, Rose NH, Weedall GD, Wu Y, Batra SS, Brito-Sierra CA, Buckingham SD, Campbell CL, Chan S, Cox E, Evans BR, Fansiri T, Filipovic I, Fontaine A, Gloria-Soria A, Hall R, Joardar VS, Jones AK, Kay RGG, Kodali V, Lee J, Lycett GJ, Mitchell SN, Muehling J, Murphy MR, Omer AD, Partridge FA, Peluso P, Aiden AP, Ramasamy V, Rašić G, Roy S, Saavedra-Rodriguez K, Sharan S, Sharma A, Smith ML, Turner J, Weakley AM, Zhao Z, Akbari OS, Black WC, Cao H, Darby AC, Hill CA, Johnston JS, Murphy TD, Raikhel AS, Sattelle DB, Sharakhov IV, White BJ, Zhao L, Aiden EL, Mann RS, Lambrechts L, Powell JR, Sharakhova MV, Tu Z, Robertson HM, McBride CS, Hastie AR, Korlach J, Neafsey DE, Phillippy AM, Vosshall LB (*contributed equally)
Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control. Nature 2018 563:501-507. [link] [pdf] [preprint]

Partridge FA*, Forman R*, Willis NJ*, Bataille CJR*, Murphy EA, Brown AE, Heyer-Chauhan N, Marinič B, Sowood DJC, Wynne GM, Else KJ, Russell AJ, Sattelle DB, 2018 (*contributed equally).
2,4-Diaminothieno[3,2-d]pyrimidines, a New Class of Anthelmintic with Activity against Adult and Egg Stages of Whipworm. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2018 12(7):e0006487 [link] [pdf] [preprint]

Furutani S*, Ihara M*, Lees K*, Buckingham SD*, Partridge FA, David JA, Patel R, Warchal S, Mellor IR, Matsuda K, Sattelle DB. (*contributed equally)
The fungal alkaloid Okaramine-B activates an L-glutamate-gated chloride channel from Ixodes scapularis, a tick vector of Lyme disease. International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance. 2018 8(2):350-360 [link] [pdf]

Partridge FA*, Brown AE*, Buckingham SD*, Willis NJ, Wynne GM, Forman R, Else KJ, Morrison AA, Matthews JB, Russell AJ, Lomas DA, Sattelle DB (*contributed equally)
An automated high-throughput system for phenotypic screening of chemical libraries on C. elegans and parasitic nematodes. International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance 2018 8(1):8-21 [link] [pdf] [preprint]

Partridge FA*, Murphy EA*, Willis NJ*, Bataille CJ, Forman R, Heyer-Chauhan N, Marinič B, Sowood DJ, Wynne GM, Else KJ, Russell AJ, Sattelle DB (*contributed equally)
Dihydrobenz[e][1,4]oxazepin-2(3H)-ones, a new anthelmintic chemotype immobilising whipworm and reducing infectivity in vivo. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Feb 9;11(2):e0005359. [link] [pdf]

Buckingham SD, Partridge FA, Sattelle DB. Automated, high-throughput, motility analysis in Caenorhabditis elegans and parasitic nematodes: Applications in the search for new anthelmintics. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2014 Oct 30;4(3):226-32. [link]

Hurst RJ, Hopwood T, Gallagher AL, Partridge FA, Burgis T, Sattelle DB, Else KJ. An antagonist of the retinoid X receptor reduces the viability of Trichuris muris in vitro. BMC Infect Dis. 2014 Sep 27;14:520. [link]

Anderson A, Laurenson-Schafer H, Partridge FA, Hodgkin J, McMullan R. Serotonergic chemosensory neurons modify the C. elegans immune response by regulating G-protein signaling in epithelial cells. PLoS Pathog. 2013;9(12):e1003787. [link]

Partridge FA, Gravato-Nobre MJ, Hodgkin J. Signal transduction pathways that function in both development and innate immunity. Dev Dyn. 2010 May;239(5):1330-6. [link]

Hodgkin J, Partridge FA. Caenorhabditis elegans meets microsporidia: the nematode killers from Paris. PLoS Biol. 2008 Dec 23;6(12):2634-7 [link]

Partridge FA, Tearle AW, Gravato-Nobre MJ, Schafer WR, Hodgkin J. The C. elegans glycosyltransferase BUS-8 has two distinct and essential roles in epidermal morphogenesis. Dev Biol. 2008 May 15;317(2):549-59. [link]

Software

INVAPP / Paragon An automated system for analysing worm movement/growth from movies. [doi]