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Plant & Food Science Staff

Academics
Research Fellows
Research Officers & Technical Staff

Academics

Name	Title	Group / Project(s)
Dr Amanda Able	Academic	Plant Physiology and Pathology
Mrs Judy Dufour	Academic	Undergraduate Teaching
Dr Jason Eglinton	Barley Program Leader	Barley Breeding
Professor Geoff Fincher	Deputy CEO and Director	Enzymology & Cell Wall Research
Professor Robert Gibson	Professor of Functional Food Science	Nutrition & Functional Food Science
Assoc. Professor Maria Hrmova	Academic	Enzymology/Crystallography
Dr Michael Keller	Deputy Head of School	Insect Behaviour & Biology
Prof Peter Langridge	Academic	Functional Genomics in Cereals
Prof Roger Leigh	Head of School	Plant Cell Physiology
Assoc Prof Daryl Mares	Academic	Cereal Grain Biochemistry
Professor Diane Mather	Professorial Research Fellow	Molecular Cereal Breeding
Dr Glenn McDonald	Senior Lecturer	Plant Nutrition
Dr Christopher Preston	Head of Discipline	Weed Science
Prof John Randles	Academic	Plant Virology
Dr Tony Rathjen	Academic	Wheat Breeding
Professor Otto Schmidt	Professor of Applied & Molecular Ecology	Insect Molecular Biology
Dr Carolyn Schultz	Academic	Protein Chemistry & Function
Dr Eileen Scott	Lecturer	Fungal Plant Pathology Horticultural Pathology Pulse Pathology Grape Pathology & Microbiology
Prof Mark Tester	ARC Federation Fellow
Prof Ari Verbyla	Professorial Research Fellow	Biometrics & Bioinformatics

Research Fellows

Name	Group	Project / Position
Dr Jason A Able	Genetics of Meiosis in Cereals	MARs (transformations) / Genome structure
Dr Robert Asenstorfer	Cereal Grain Biochemistry	Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Ute Baumann	Functional Genomics in Cereals	Thioredoxin studies
Amanda Box	Barley Breeding	Hull-less Barley Breeder
Dr Julia Brueggemann	Molecular Cereal Breeding	Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Rachel Burton	Enzymology	Polysaccharide biosynthesis
Dr Ken Chalmers	Molecular Cereal Breeding	Molecular marker studies
Eun Young Choi		Postdoctoral Fellow
Helen Collins	Enzymology	Postdoctoral Fellow
Nicholas Collins	ACPFG	Postdoctoral Fellow
Simon Conn	Plant Cell Physiology	Postdoctoral Fellow
Vanessa Conn	ACPFG	Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Olivier Cotsaftis	ACPFG	ARC Research Associate
Stewart Coventry	Barley Breeding	Barley Breeder
Dr Kerrie Davies	Nematology	Pant parasitic nematodes
Dr Satish Dogra	Plant Virology	Geminii Viruses
Dr Ian Dundas	Cereal Cytogenetics	Utilization of uncultivated relatives of wheat as sources of new disease resistance genes
Dr Howard Eagles	Molecular Cereal Breeding	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Serik Eliby	ACPFG	Research Fellow
Dr John Field	Biometrics & Bioinformatics	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Delphine Fleury	ACPFG	Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Trevor Garnett	ACPFG	Research Fellow
Dr Yusuf Genc	Plant Nutrition
Dr Matthew Gilliham	Plant Cell Physiology	Senoir Research Fellow
Dr Bev Gogel	Biometrics & Bioinformatics	Research Fellow
Dr Dagmar Hanold	Plant Virology	Mundulla Yellows
Dr Andrew Harvey	Enzymology	Computer based analyses of genes involved in cell wall synthesis and degradation in wheat and barley
Dr Matthew Hayden	Molecular Cereal Breeding	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Penny Henschke	Molecular Cereal Breeding	Genotyping of Australian wheat varieties
Dr Katja Hogendoorn	Insect Behaviour & Biology	Crop pollination by native bees
Dr Julia Humphries	Enzymology	Identification of high carotenoid wheat varieties
Dr AKMR Islam	Cereal Cytogenetics	Wide - hybridizations between wheat and wild relatives and cytogenetic manipulation of alien chromosomes in wheat
Dr Colin Jenner	Wheat Starch Quality Improvement	Wheat Starch Quality Improvement
Dr Anuja Kumaratilake	Cereal Grain Biochemistry	Postdoctoral Fellow (fractional)
Dr Ursula Langridge-Reimold	ACPFG	Green Thumbs Department
Dr Richard Leach	Barley Breeding	Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Segiy Lopato	ACPFG
Dr Graham Lyons
Dr John Matthews	Branch Broom Rape Research Project
Dr Andrew Milligan	ACPFG	Early embryo development in cereals
Dr Kolumbina Mrva	Cereal Grain Biochemistry	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Jeff Paull	Faba Bean Breeding
Sophie Roumeliotis	Barley Breeding	Manager Barley Quality Laboratory
Dr Belinda Stummer	Fungal Plant Pathology	Fungal Contaminants and their impact on wine
Dr Tania Tabone	Molecular Cereal Breeding	Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Gary Taylor	Insect Molecular Biology	Biology of gall systems
Dr Julian Taylor	Biometrics & Bioinformatics	Senior Biometrician
Dr Nicole Thompson	Plant Virology	Mundulla Yellows
Dr Angela Wakelin
Dr Qisan Zhang	Enzymology	Study activities of mitochondrial electron transport chain components

Research Officers & Technical Staff

Name	Title	Group
David Apps	Technical Assistant
Natalia Bazanova	Technical Assistant	ACPFG
Konstanze Beck-Oldach	Research Officer	ACPFG
Annette Boettcher	Technical Assistant
Jeff Borgas	Barley Field Operations	Barley Breeding
Peter Boutsalis	Postdoctoral Fellow
Heather Bray	MPB CRC Education Manager	MPB CRC
Daniel Carrocci	Technical Assistant	ACPFG
Lorraine Carruthers	Technican	ACPFG
Ian Christensen	Chief Operating Officer
Stephanie Conelius	Technical Assistant
Chrisopher Coughlan	Business Development Manager
Diedre Cox	Research Officer	Plant Nutrition
Peter Crisp	Research Associate
Ranjit Das	Technical Assistant
Paul Eckermann	Research Associate	Molecular Cereal Breeding
Akkiko Enju	Research Officer	ACPFG
Dr Stephanie Feakin	Technical Officer	ACPFG
Nicola Featherstone	Technical Officer
Andrea Fench	Reception
Jonathan Fenwick	Commercial Officer	MPB CRC
Teresa Fowles	Manager	Waite Analytical Services
Rebecca Fox	Research Assistant, Molecular Marker	Barley Breeding
Karen Geyer	Technical Officer	Molecular Cereal Breeding
Jennifer Hann	Technical Assistant	Barley Breeding
Graeme Hart	Barley Field Operations	Barley Breeding
David Harris	Business Manager	ACPFG
Alison Hay	Technical Officer	ACPFG
Dorothee Hayton	Technical Assistant	Branch Broom Rape Research Project
Tom Hoppo	Barley Field Operations	Barley Breeding
Kevin James	Technical Officer	Faba Bean Breeding
Nicole Kempster	Technical Assistant	Cereal Grain Biochemistry
Natalie Kibble	Research Officer
Cresentia Kohler	Research Officer	Molecular Cereal Breeding
Jodie Kretschmer	Research Officer	ACPFG
Jim Lewis	Technical Officer	Plant Nutrition
Greg Lott	Technical Officer	Molecular Cereal Breeding
Catherine Margach	Technical Officer, Barley Quality	Barley Breeding
Dr Genet Mekuria	Research Officer	Molecular Cereal Breeding
Jan Nield	Laboratory Manager	ACPFG
Margaret Pallotta	Higher Education Officer	ACPFG
Lyndon Palmer	Research Officer	Plant Nutrition
Ian Roberts	Technical Assistant	Faba Bean Breeding
Ray Sindel	Technical Assistant	Barley Breeding
Anthony Smith	Manager, Barley Field Operations	Barley Breeding
Daniel Smith	Technical Officer	Cereal Grain Biochemistry
Nigel Steinborner	Barley Field Operations	Barley Breeding
Chris Stone	Technical Assistant
Phillipa Tansing	Technical Officer, Barley Quality	Barley Breeding
Bianca van Wegen	Technical Assistant	Australian Grain Technologies
Elysia Vassos	Research Officer, Winter Cereals	Barley Breeding
Dawn Verlin	Higher Education Officer	Cereal Cytogenetics
Patricia Warner	Research Officer	ACPFG
Ella Zielinski	Technical Assistant	Nutrition & Functional Food Science