Plant Membrane Biophysics group

Members:
• Alan Walker FAA, Visiting Professor
• Virginia Shepherd, Visiting Fellow
• Enid Mahomudally, Ph. D. (co-supervised with Prof. A. Moon, UTS) - graduated 2010
• Sabah Al Khazaaly, Ph. D. student - graduated September 2011, now Visiting Fellow

 

 



 

 

Research Links:
• Prof. MR Blatt, The Regius Chair of Botany, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK
• Prof. MA Bisson, University of New York at Buffalo, USA
• A/Prof. Susan Murch, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
• Prof. Jan Naus and Dr. Dusan Lazar, Department of Physics, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Prof. T Shimmen, Himeji Institute, Japan
• Prof. M. Tester, Federation Fellow, Australian Centre for Functional Genomics, South Australia
• Prof. S. Tyerman FAA, University of Adelaide, South Australia

 

 

Projects:

Melatonin in Characeae

Electrophysiology of mechanisms of salt sensitivity in Chara australis

Book in progress by Beilby and Casanova: The Physiology of Characeae Plants

External mucilage and turgor regulation in salt-tolerant charophyte Lamprothamnium papulosum

Membrane PD oscillations and noise

Loading of fluorescent dyes into giant cells

Mechanosensitive channels in charophytes: salt-sensitive Chara corallina and salt-tolerant Lamprothamnium papulosum

Modeling ion transporters in higher plants

Electrophysiology of Ventricaria (Valonia) ventricosa

Action potential in charophytes

 

 

TEACHING

Director of Second Year Teaching Laboratory

Lecturer in Biophysics courses PHYS2410 (2012, 2013) and PHYS3410 (2012)

Lecturer in First Year Physics PHYS 1111 (2012, 2013), PHYS 1121 (2012)

 

 

Page last updated: 22 of April 2013