Brian Collins
Modelling the yield impact of photosynthetic activity across Australia in wheat and sorghum
Brian was part of the Centre in 2020
Robert Coe – CSIRO
Worked on plant phenomics, physiology and biochemstry
Rob was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2019
Florence Danila
Comparing transport mechanisms between rice (C3) and setaria (C4) plants with focus on plasmodesmata
Florence was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Maria Ermakova
Investigating C4 photosynthesis using Setaria as a model plant
Maria was part of the Centre from 2016 to 2021
Britta Förster
Introducing functional cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporters into higher plant chloroplasts
Britta was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2017
Barbara George-Jaeggli
Researching physiological and genetic traits and integrating phenotypic and genotypic information for advances in crop yield.
Barbara was part of the Centre from 2015 to 2020
Danielle Griffani
Understanding leaf water isotope composition early this month.
Danielle was part of the Centre 2018 to 2021
Michael Groszmann
Understanding the biology of a subset of Aquaporin proteins termed COporins
Michael was part of the Centre from 2015 to 2021
Adrian Hathorn
Using statistical and computational tools to characterise genetic variation in adaptive traits across the sorghum genome
Adrian was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Wil (Wei Yih) Hee – RIPE Project
Supported research on tobacco transformation and cloning.
Wil was part of the Centre from 2015 to 2020
Miguel Hernandez-Prieto
Analysing the genome of the chlorophyll-f containing cyanobacteria H. hongdechloris, and investigated the molecular mechanism of light-harvesting complexes using red-shifted chlorophylls.
Miguel was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Eiri Heyno (RIPE project)
Improving cellular CO2 diffusion and photosynthetic electron transport
Eiri was part of the Centre from 2020 to 2021
Jie Liang
Applying isotope techniques to the examination of leaf water pathway
Jie was part of the Centre from 2019 to 2021
Benedict (Ben) Long – RIPE Project
Incorporating carboxysomes into plant chloroplasts for the enhancement of photosynthesis.
Ben was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Saul Newman
Linking genome and phenome using machine learning and multivariate statistics for photosynthetic traits.
Saul was with the Centre from 2018 to 2021
Nicole Pontarin
Studied how carbon fluxes and biomass accumulation are affected under the application of diverse stimuli
Nicole was part of the Centre from 2019 to 2021
Sarah Rottet (RIPE project)
Improving photosynthetic CO2 fixation
Sarah was part of the Centre from 2019 to 2020
Artur Sawicki
Determining the mechanism of chlorophyll d and chlorophyll f biosynthesis from cyanobacteria
Artur was part of the Centre from 2018 to 2021
Robert Sharwood
Investigated gas exchange and water use efficiency of different cotton cultivars
Robert was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2020
Eloise Tredenick
Using mathematical models to explain photosynthesis function
Eloise was part of the Centre from 2019 to 2021
Chung-Chi (Alex) Wu
Optimising bioengineering and breeding strategies for increasing photosynthesis and growth in major crops
Alex was part of the Centre 2015 to 2020
Yan Zhao
Analysing images from the field phenotyping activity
Yan was part of the Centre from 2019 to 2020