About Cerberus
Who was Cerberus? In ancient Greek mythology, Cerberus was the three headed watchdog to the gates of Hell. In some ways that is how we regard ourselves here at Cerberus Sciences.
It is our mission to act as your watchdog against unwanted “visitors” of the microbiological kind to your laboratory animal facility.
The staff at Cerberus have over sixty years experience between them in a wide range of disciplines from serology to cell culture and molecular diagnostic techniques. This experience is focused on bringing the quickest and most reliable monitoring service to animal facilities and research groups in this region.
International standards in the provision of animals for research are increasing year by year and more emphasis is now being placed on the microbiological status of animals being used. Couple this with the increased trade in laboratory animals across international borders and the need for standardization of testing regimes and reporting mechanisms become ever more important.
Testing laboratories have to be responsive to the needs of facilities and research groups to accommodate these changes.
Our aim is to work in partnership with our clients to ensure that they have a health monitoring program in place which is meaningful and relevant to the needs of the individual or institute.
The Staff at Cerberus
Bob Stevenson - B.Sc. (Hons) has 16 years experience in the industry within Australia. He is the Past President of ANZSLAS (Industry professional body).
He has been involved in Laboratory animal diagnostics and veterinary bacteriology for over 25 years. He has extensive contacts throughout the industry both nationally and internationally and has been an invited speaker to international and national conferences.
He has been awarded consecutive Australian Research Council grants totaling in excess of $500,000 in conjunction with a research group headed by Associate Professor Ross Andrews (University of South Australia).
David Lawrence - Assoc.Dip.Med.Lab.Sci has had over 26 years experience in a broad range of laboratories with the Department of Primary Industries and the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science including 6 years as supervisor of a Veterinary Virology laboratory. He has extensive expertise in cell culture and associated diagnostic techniques, protein purification and in vitro monoclonal antibody amplification..
Amanda Auld - Cert.Med.Lab.Sci has been involved in all aspects of Molecular Diagnostics and RT-PCR laboratory animal diagnostic assay development in association with University research groups and has overseen the integration of these assays into a routine diagnostic setting. She has more than 20 years experience in laboratory work within a number of settings.
As a team, our skills complement each other and as a dedicated service laboratory we will do our utmost to provide the level of service you expect.
Dr Tammy Utteridge - BVSc (Hons) Dip Vet Path PhD Tammy Utteridge graduated from University of Sydney with a bachelor of veterinary science (honours) degree in January 1980, and then undertook a diploma in veterinary pathology during the remainder of 1980, also at the University of Sydney. Her supervisor was Daria Love. She has also recently been elected to full Active Membership of the Society of Toxicologic Pathology.
After completing her diploma she returned to Adelaide and became the veterinary pathologist at Diagnostic Laboratory Services, a private veterinary pathology laboratory, from 1981 to 1987. She was a committee member of the Australian Society for Veterinary Pathology and served as treasurer. In 1987 she moved for a short period to the Queensland Department of Primary Industry before returning to Adelaide and joining the South Australian Health Commission, working in health assessment of chemicals and radiation. In 1991 she was awarded a University of South Australia scholarship and undertook a PhD on the effects of radiation on bone marrow while based in the Cancer Centre of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
During her PhD she visited research centres in Montreal, Harvard, Battelle (Pacific Northwest Laboratories), Bristol, Harwell and Manchester. In 1994 she became a staff member at the Cancer Centre of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She presented her PhD results at a radiation conference at Oxford in 1996 and was awarded her PhD in March 1997. In 1998 she was seconded to the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science and moved to the Gilles Plains campus, where she managed the $1.064 million project on mobile phones and cancer funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council and met the current staff of Cerberus Sciences.
She has registration for laboratory animal pathology from the Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia and works solely in this field.
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