PS Seminar Series (LEAPS Edition) - ANU Plant Science in 2018 - where to next?
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Biography - Owen Atkin obtained his BSc (Hons) in 1987 (ANU) and his PhD in 1993 (Toronto). From 1993-1995 he held an EU Post Doctoral Fellowship (Utrecht). From 1996-1999 he held an ARC Post Doctoral Fellowship at ANU. Thereafter, he moved to UK to take up a faculty position in the Biology Dept at the University of York (1999-2008). He then returned to ANU in 2008 and held an ARC Future Fellowship from 2009 to 2013. Since 2014, his work has been supported by funding by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, and by a grant from the International Wheat Yield Program. He is the Environment Section Editor for New Phytologist and is the current Head of the Division of Plant Sciences in RSB. A major focus of his research is assessing the impact of environmental gradients on plant physiological processes, particularly respiration.
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Slatyer Seminar Room, Level 2, RN Robertson Building (46), ANU
Upcoming events in this series
Plants detect invading pathogens using immune receptors that are located both inside the cell and at its surface. Structural and biochemical studies have transformed our understanding of how intracellular immune receptors recognise effector proteins secreted by pathogens. But far less is known about how plant cell-surface receptors recognise effectors in the apoplast – the space outside the plant cell where many fungal pathogens colonise their hosts.