PhD student selected for presentation at ISGC (Beijing March 10-12)

March 19, 2014
Filed under: News — Emma Drew @ 2:39 pm

Riksfardini (Dinie) Ermawar, a PhD student with the Adelaide node, attended the 1st International Setaria Genetics Conference in Beijing. Dinie’s talk, “Analysis of (1,3;1,4)-β-D-Glucan in wild type and transgenic Setaria viridis plants” was one of only 6 selected talks from over 200 abstracts and the only student talk. During her time at the conference, she […]

New paper: Cotton fibre glycosyltransferases

March 18, 2014
Filed under: New Publications — Emma Drew @ 4:45 pm

Melbourne ECR (or early career researcher) Wei Zeng recently co-authored a paper with collaborators at the Central China Normal University titled, “Two cotton fiber-associated glycosyltransferases, GhGT43A1 and GhGT43C1, function in hemicellulose glucuronoxylan biosynthesis during plant development ” They have identified two putative GTs from cotton that are closely related to genes in Arabidopsis and are […]

Prestigious award for Centre Scientific Advisory Committee member, Professor Marilyn Anderson

March 14, 2014
Filed under: News — Emma Drew @ 1:45 pm

The Lemberg Medal is awarded to a distinguished Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology member who will present the Lemberg Lecture at the next ComBio meeting. The Medal is presented in memory of Emeritus Professor M.R. Lemberg who was the Society’s first President and Honorary Member. Professor Marilyn Anderson FAA FTSE is a Professor […]

Centre Director reaches 10,000 citations

March 11, 2014
Filed under: News — Emma Drew @ 3:07 pm

Google Scholar recently showed Professor Geoff Fincher has now achieved over 10,000 citations over his extraordinary career with an h-index of 57 and an i10-index of 145. Click here to see Geoff’s Google Scholar profile