CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria and plants, & Synthetic Biology strategies for transplanting cyanobacterial CO2 Concentrating mechanism parts in crop plants

Projects dealing with CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria and plants, and impact of climate change, and the engineering plants that use less water and produce greater yield.

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Division of Plant Sciences

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Price Group - The cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism and the use of synthetic biology to transfer it to C3 crop plants

von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves

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Evolutionary genetics and genomics

Membrane transporters and channels

Photosynthesis and plant energy biology

Plant environmental biology and functional ecology

Plant genetics and gene regulation

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Current

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Prof. Dean Price

Dean.Price@anu.edu.au

+61261258423

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Projects deal with CO₂ acquisition by cyanobacteria and plants, and impact of climate change, and engineering plants that use less water.

Synthetic Biology, Plant physiology, mebrane biology and molecular biology.
Molecular and physiological analysis of CO₂ concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) in cyanobacteria and microalgae; Phylogentic analysis. ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis
Exploiting CCM components to engineer crop plants with greater productivity under semi-arid conditions (RIPE Project).
Strategies for building carboxysomes in plants chlooplasts (RIPE project) - Home | RIPE (illinois.edu)
Construction and analysis of mutants.
CO₂ sensing in cyanobacteria.
Regulation of gene expression.
Proteomic identification of protein complexes.
Photosynthetic enzyme analysis.
Ion transport mechanisms.
Electron microscopy and structural anlysis of carboxysomes.
Phylogenetics & horizontal gene transfer.