Yazen Al-Salman
Explored how leaf structural and functional traits impact water use efficiency (WUE) in the C4 crop Sorghum.
Yazen was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2021
Urs Benning
Elucidating the functional control of photosynthesis by sugars in C3 and C4 plants
Urs was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2021
Sally-Anne Buck
Exploring the directed evolution of Rubisco
Sally was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2021
Yogesh Keshav Chaudhari
Uderstanding the interplay between sugar signalling and C4 photosynthesis
Yogesh was part of the Centre from 2018 to 2021
Lily Chen
Elucidating the role of Setaria viridis SWEETs in sugar transport pathways
Lily was part of the Centre from 2016 to 2021
Andrew Fletcher
Characterising traits that contribute to the efficient use of water by wheat plants
Andrew was part of the Centre from 2015 to 2020
Demi Gamble
Investigating the prospect of building climate change resilience in cotton through translational physiology
Demi was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2020
Tristan Gibson
Investigated CO2 assimilation rates of sorghum varieties and if they differ in providing improved photosynthesis capacity.
Matteo Gionfriddo
Researching the directed evolution of plant Rubisco using a screening system conceived in The Whitney lab of the Centre’s ANU Node.
Matteo was part of the Centre from 2019 to 2020
Walter Israel
Resolving the differences in carbon isotope discrimination during photosynthesis among C4 biochemical subtypes in grasses
Walter was part of the Centre from 2015 to 2020
Rowarne Leith
Modifying the properties of PEP carboxylase in C4 plants to examine the role of this enzyme in controlling photosynthesis
Rowarne was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2021
Jiawei Liu
Researching sorghum and wheat growth simulations under variable rainfall environments.
Jiawei was part of the Centre from 2019 to 2020
Diego Marquez Antivilo
Investigating the effect of soil type and water management on stomatal response.
Diego was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2021
Nghiem Nguyen
Working on the phenomic analysis of CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria
Nghiem was part of the Centre from 2016 to 2021
Piyapol Phetmunee
Applying the canopy photosynthesis model (DCaPS) to unravelling variations in sorghum and maize radiation use efficiency and transpiration efficiency.
Sacha Pulsford
Focusing on the cyanobacterial’s CO2 concentrating mechanism and the use of synthetic biology to transfer it to C3 crop plants
Sacha was part of the Centre from 2018 to 2020
Julius Sagun
Investigating how different C4 grass species use and transform light energy from the sun.
Julius was part of the Centre from 2015 to 2019
Tanya Skinner
Enhancing the growth of tobacco by modifying the catalytic properties of the key photosynthetic enzyme Rubisco, using directed evolution.
Tanya was part of the Centre from 2020 to 2021
Ashley Tan
Understanding the interaction between aquaporins and carbonic anhydrase
Ashley was part of the Centre in 2020
Hahn Vo
Understanding how stress signalling might affect some photosynthetic genes translation regulation, and if it has an effect on plant photosynthesis capacity.
Hahn was part of the Centre from 2020 to 2021
Emmanuel Young
Researching the biology of Rubisco Activase enzyme.
Emmanuel was part of the Centre from 2018 to 2021
Ding Yuan
Bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation
Ding was part of the Centre from 2014 to 2021
Xiaoyu Zhi
Predicting the photosynthetic capacity from hyperspectral data in sorghum
Xiaoyu was part of the Centre from 2018 to 2020
Yu Zhou
Exploring the evolutionary protein landscape of Rubisco
Yu was part of the Centre from 2017 to 2021