Dr Sandra Brosda
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute
Casual Academic - School of Ch
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Researcher biography
Dr Sandra Brosda is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Surgical Oncology group headed by Professor Andrew Barbour.
Dr Brosda was awarded a PhD in bioinformatics and cancer genetics from the University of Queensland in 2020. Her research focused on biomarker discovery and intra-tumour heterogeneity and tumour evolution in oesophageal adenocarcinoma. In 2021, Dr Brosda was awarded a Cure Cancer Australia PdCCRs grant and an MSH project grant to further investigate tumour evolution to improve precision medicine.
Overall, her research applies bioinformatics tools and approaches to cancer genomics to improve precision medicine and health outcomes for patients with melanoma, oesophago-gastric cancer and pancreatic cancer.
Journal Articles
Molendijk, Jeffrey, Kolka, Cathryn M., Cairns, Henry, Brosda, Sandra, Mohamed, Ahmed, Shah, Alok K., Brown, Ian, Hodson, Mark P., Hennessy, Thomas, Liu, Guanghao, Stoll, Thomas, Richards, Renee S., Gartside, Michael, Patel, Kalpana, Clemons, Nicholas J., Phillips, Wayne A., Barbour, Andrew, Westerhuis, Johan A. and Hill, Michelle M. (2022). Elevation of fatty acid desaturase 2 in esophageal adenocarcinoma increases polyunsaturated lipids and may exacerbate bile acid‐induced DNA damage. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 12 (5), e810. doi: 10.1002/ctm2.810
Bonazzi, V. F., Aoude, L. G., Brosda, S., Lonie, J. M., Patel, K., Bradford, J. J., Koufariotis, L. T., Wood, S., Smithers, B. Mark, Waddell, N. and Barbour, A. P. (2022). ctDNA as a biomarker of progression in oesophageal adenocarcinoma. ESMO Open, 7 (3) 100452, 100452. doi: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2022.100452
Kolka, Cathryn M., Webster, Julie, Lepletier, Ailin, Winterford, Clay, Brown, Ian, Richards, Renee S., Zelek, Wioleta M., Cao, Yilang, Khamis, Ramlah, Shanmugasundaram, Karthik B., Wuethrich, Alain, Trau, Matt, Brosda, Sandra, Barbour, Andrew, Shah, Alok K., Eslick, Guy D., Clemons, Nicholas J., Morgan, B. Paul and Hill, Michelle M. (2022). C5b-9 membrane attack complex formation and extracellular vesicle shedding in Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma. Frontiers in Immunology, 13 842023, 842023. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.842023
Aoude, Lauren G., Wong, Bernadette, Bonazzi, Vanessa F, Brosda, Sandra, Walters, Shaun B., Koufariotis, Lambros T., Naeini, Marjan M., Pearson, John V, Oey, Harald, Patel, Kalpana, Bradford, Julia J., Bloxham, Conor J, Atkinson, Victoria, Law, Phillip, Strutton, Geoffrey, Bayley, Gerard, Yang, Samuel, Smithers, B. Mark, Waddell, Nicola, Miles, Kenneth and Barbour, Andrew P. (2021). Radiomics biomarkers correlate with CD8 expression and predict immune signatures in melanoma patients. Molecular Cancer Research, 19 (6) molcanres.1038.2020, 950-956. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-20-1038
Gandhi, Maher K., Hoang, Thanh, Law, Soi C., Brosda, Sandra, O'Rourke, Kacey, Tobin, Joshua W. D., Vari, Frank, Murigneux, Valentine, Fink, J. Lynn, Gunawardana, Jay, Gould, Clare M., Oey, Harald, Bednarska, Karolina, Delecluse, Susanne, Trappe, Ralf Ulrich, de Long, Lilia Merida, Sabdia, Muhammed Bilal, Bhagat, Govind, Hapgood, Greg, Blyth, Emily, Clancy, Leighton E., Wight, Joel, Hawkes, Eliza A., Rimsza, Lisa M., Maguire, Alanna, Bojarczuk, Kamil, Chapuy, Bjoern and Keane, Colm (2021). EBV-associated primary CNS lymphoma occurring after immunosuppression is a distinct immunobiological entity. Blood, 137 (11), 1468-1477. doi: 10.1182/blood.2020008520
Veenstra, M. M. K., Smithers, B. M., Visser, E., Edholm, D., Brosda, S., Thomas, J. M., Gotley, D. C., Thomson, I. G., Wijnhoven, B. P. L. and Barbour, A. P. (2021). Complications and survival after hybrid and fully minimally invasive oesophagectomy. BJS Open, 5 (1) zraa033, 1-7. doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zraa033
Aoude, Lauren G., Bonazzi, Vanessa F., Brosda, Sandra, Patel, Kalpana, Koufariotis, Lambros T., Oey, Harald, Nones, Katia, Wood, Scott, Pearson, John V., Lonie, James M., Arneil, Melissa, Atkinson, Victoria, Smithers, B. Mark, Waddell, Nicola and Barbour, Andrew P. (2020). Pathogenic germline variants are associated with poor survival in stage III/IV melanoma patients. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 17687, 17687. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74956-3
Blunk, Sebastian, Hoffer, Jeroen, Brosda, Sandra, de Heer, Martine I., Sturrock, Craig J. and Mooney, Sacha J. (2020). Impact of fruit orientation and pelleting material on water uptake and germination performance in artificial substrate for sugar beet. PLoS ONE, 15 (5) e0232875, e0232875. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232875
van Hootegem, S. J. M., Smithers, B. M., Gotley, D. C., Brosda, S., Thomson, I. G., Thomas, J. M., Gartside, M. and Barbour, A. P. (2019). Baseline neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio holds no prognostic value for esophageal and junctional adenocarcinoma in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Diseases of the Esophagus, 33 (6). doi: 10.1093/dote/doz082
van Hootegem, Sander J. M., Smithers, B. Mark, Gotley, David C., Brosda, Sandra, Thomson, Iain G., Thomas, Janine M., Gartside, Michael, van Lanschot, Jan J. B., Lagarde, Sjoerd M., Wijnhoven, Bas P. L. and Barbour, Andrew P. (2019). The impact of signet ring cell differentiation on outcome in patients with esophageal and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 26 (8), 2375-2384. doi: 10.1245/s10434-019-07322-x
Newell, Felicity, Patel, Kalpana, Gartside, Michael, Krause, Lutz, Brosda, Sandra, Aoude, Lauren G., Loffler, Kelly A., Bonazzi, Vanessa F., Patch, Ann-Marie, Kazakoff, Stephen H., Holmes, Oliver, Xu, Qinying, Wood, Scott, Leonard, Conrad, Lampe, Guy, Lord, Reginald V., Whiteman, David C., Pearson, John V., Nones, Katia, Waddell, Nicola and Barbour, Andrew P. (2019). Complex structural rearrangements are present in high-grade dysplastic Barrett's oesophagus samples. BMC Medical Genomics, 12 (1) 31, 31. doi: 10.1186/s12920-019-0476-9
Krause, Lutz, Nones, Katia , Loffler, Kelly A., Nancarrow, Derek, Oey, Harald , Tang, Yue Hang, Wayte, Nicola J., Patch, Ann Marie, Patel, Kalpana , Brosda, Sandra, Manning, Suzanne, Lampe, Guy, Clouston, Andrew, Thomas, Janine, Stoye, Jens, Hussey, Damian J., Watson, David I., Lord, Reginald V., Phillips, Wayne A., Gotley, David, Smithers, B. Mark, Whiteman, David C., Hayward, Nicholas K., Grimmond, Sean M., Waddell, Nicola and Barbour, Andrew P. (2016). Identification of the CIMP-like subtype and aberrant methylation of members of the chromosomal segregation and spindle assembly pathways in esophageal adenocarcinoma. Carcinogenesis, 37 (4), 356-365. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgw018
Conference Papers
Barbour, A. P., Brosda, S., Wijnhoven, B., van Hootgem, S., Lanschot, J. J. B., Barbour, S., Lagarde, S., Krause, L., Pryor, D., Thomas, J., Walpole, E. T., van der Gaast, A. and Smithers, M. (2018). Neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal adenocarcinoma: a propensity score-matched comparison of paclitaxel and carboplatin chemoradiotherapy with cisplatin and 5-fluoruracil-based chemo- or chemoradiotherapy. 43rd ESMO Congress (ESMO), Munich, Germany, 19-23 October 2018. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy282.015
Barbour, Andrew P., McCormack, Orla M. , Baker, Peter J., Hirst, Jodi, Krause, Lutz, Brosda, Sandra, Thomas, Janine M., Blazeby, Jane M., Thomson, Iain G., Gotley, David C. and Smithers, Bernard M. (2017). Long-term health-related quality of life following esophagectomy: A nonrandomized comparison of thoracoscopically assisted and open surgery. Philadelphia, PA United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001899
Thesis
Brosda, Sandra (2020). Spatial and temporal tumour evolution and genetic biomarker discovery for personalised treatment in oesophageal adenocarcinoma. PhD Thesis, Medicine Faculty, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/89e3f4f