Staff, Students and Affliates* of the Node - uwa

Name: Dr Boris BAER
Position:ARC QEII Research Fellow
Laboratory:ciber
Email:bcbaer(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4495

Honeybee reproduction, evolutionary biology, spermatheca proteomics
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Name: Ms Tiffane BATES
Position:None
Laboratory:ciber
Email:tiffbee(at)hotmail.com
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4469

Bee Yard manager
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Name: Dr Clement BOUSSARDON
Position:PhD Co-Tutelle
Laboratory:small
Email:tba
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4433 lab: (08) 6488 4498

Name: Dr John BUSSELL
Position:Post-doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:smith
Email:bussell(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 7005 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Peroxisome mutants, proteomics.

Name: Chris CARRIE
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:whelan
Email:carric02(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4435 lab: (08) 6488 2123

Dual targeting of proteins to mitochondria and peroxisomes.

Name: Dr Ian CASTLEDEN
Position:Database/Systems Engineer
Laboratory:small
Email:iancas(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au (with cv)
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4466

Scientific Databases. Plant organelle metabolic networks.

Name: Dr Anne-Laure CHATEIGNER-BOUTIN
Position:Post-doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:small
Email:chateign(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4495 lab: (08) 6488 4498

Reverse genetics of organelle RNA editing.

Name: Dr Ping CHE
Position:Research Fellow (Metabolic Biology)
Laboratory:smith
Email:pche(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4457 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Energy metabolism and metabolic signaling in the plant cell. Metabolic control of plant growth Fatty acid metabolism, signaling and plant development.

Name: Dr Catherine COLAS DE FRANCS-SMALL
Position:Visiting Academic
Laboratory:other
Email:cathiedf(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08)6488 4469

plant mitochodria, proteomics, formate dehydrogenase

Name: Owen DUNCAN
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:whelan
Email:duncao01(at)tartarus.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4434 lab: (08) 6488 2123

Name: Dr Holger EUBEL
Position:ARC Australian Post-doctoral Fellow
Laboratory:millar
Email:heubel(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4411 lab: (08) 6488 7004

Plant Mitochondria, Proteomics, Protein Complexes.

Name: Rosemary FARTHING
Position:Laboratory Technician
Laboratory:PGAF
Email:farthing(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4468

Name: Kristen FEHER
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:whelan
Email:feherk62(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4431

Name: Ms Ricarda FENSKE
Position:Technical and Operations Officer
Laboratory:metabolomics australia
Email:rfenske(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4457 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Name: Dr Perry FRANCISCO
Position:Post-doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:smith
Email:perryf(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4430 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Name: Dr Sota FUJII
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:Small
Email:sfujii(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 5903

Name: Mrs Jenny GILLETT
Position:Admin Assistant
Laboratory:Admin Office
Email:jgillett(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4416

Name: Estelle GIRAUD
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:whelan
Email:giraue01(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4434 lab: (08) 6488 2123

AOX promoters

Name: Dr Julia GRASSL
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:Millar
Email:julia.grassl(at)uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4411 lab: (08) 6488 4411

Proteomics, Mass Spec

Name: Kamel HAMMANI
Position:Co-tutelle PhD Student
Laboratory:small
Email:Kamel.Hammani(at)ibmp-ulp.u-strasbg.fr

Reverse genetic of PPR editing factors in Arabidopsis chloroplast

Name: Shaobai HUANG
Position:Affiliate Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:millar
Email:shuang(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4431 lab: (08) 6488 7044

Name: Dr Aneta IVANOVA
Position:Research Officer
Laboratory:whelan
Email:aneta(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4434 lab: (08) 6488 2123

Gene expression, germination in rice, postharvesting treatment in grape.

Name: Mr Richard JACOBY
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:millar
Email:jacobr01(at)student.uwa.edu.au

Function of mitochondrial small heat shock proteins during abiotic stress

Name: Dr Sabine KAHLAU
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:Small
Email:kahlau(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4433

Name: Dr Olivier KEECH
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:Smith
Email:okeech(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4468 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Regulation of plant metabolism, abiotic stresses (senescence, ozone etc...), cytoskeleton dynamics

Name: Dr Michaela KING
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:ciber
Email:mking(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au

honey bee, sperm viability, seminal fluid proteins
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Name: Mr Simon LAW
Position:Hons. Student
Laboratory:Whelan
Email:laws03(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4434

Name: Alex LEE
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:millar
Email:cplee(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4435 lab: (08) 6488 7004

Quantitative proteomics, plant mitochondria

Name: Lei LI
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:Whelan/Millar
Email:lil13(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4434

Name: Dr Jing LI
Position:Research Assoc
Laboratory:smith
Email:jingli(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4430 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Beta-amylases and beta-amylase-like proteins.

Name: Xu LIN
Position:PhD student
Laboratory:Whelan
Email:xul04(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4431

Name: Sheng LIU
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:small/whelan
Email:lius07(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4431 lab: (08) 6488 4498

Name: Dr Harvey MILLAR
Position:Chief Investigator
Laboratory:millar
Email:hmillar(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 7245 lab: (08) 6488 7004

Name: Mrs Jude MOYLE
Position:Office Administrator, UWA
Laboratory:Admin Office
Email:judem(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4436

Accounts, finance, purchasing.

Name: Dr Monika MURCHA
Position:ARC Post-doctoral Fellow
Laboratory:whelan
Email:monika(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au (with cv)
Phone: office: (08) 6488 2112 lab: (08) 6488 2123

Protein import, mitochondrial biogenesis

Name: Reena NARSAI
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:whelan
Email:narsar01(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4434 lab: (08) 6488 2123

mRNA degradation, Arabidopsis and Rice germination, transcript data analysis

Name: Dave NELSON
Position:Post-doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:smith
Email:dcnelson(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4430 lab: (08) 6488 4417

butenolide, molecular genetics

Name: Sophia NG
Position:Ph D student
Laboratory:whelan
Email:jinqtyan(at)gmail.com

Name: Ellen PAYNTER
Position:Honours Student
Laboratory:Whelan
Email:paynte01(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4434 lab: (08) 6488 2123

Name: Dr Veronica POLAND
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:ciber
Email:vpoland(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4431

Honey bee sperm, proteomics, sexual conflict

Name: Dr Sarah PURDY
Position:Post-doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:smith
Email:purdys(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4430 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Name: Ms Julie-Anne RISEBOROUGH
Position:None
Laboratory:Metabolomics Australia
Email:risebj01(at)student.uwa.edu.au

Name: Rachel SHINGAKI-WELLS
Position:Honours Student
Laboratory:Millar
Email:shingr01(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4435 lab: (08) 6488 7004

Name: Dr Ian SMALL
Position:Director/Chief Investigator
Laboratory:small
Email:iansmall(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4499 lab: (08) 6488 4498

Name: Dr Steven SMITH
Position:Federation Fellow
Laboratory:smith
Email:ssmith(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4403 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Name: Dr Cory SOLHEIM
Position:Post-doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:Millar
Email:csolheim(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 2795 lab: (08) 6488 7004

Proteomics, Mass Spec, Environmental Stress

Name: Dr Will STANLEY
Position:Post-doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:small
Email:will(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au (with cv)
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4431 lab: (08) 6488 4498

Recombinant protein production and purification.
Biochemical and biophysical characterisation of proteins.
Protein structure and folding.
Protein trafficking, translocation and assembly.
Structure and interactions of helical repeat (TPR/PPR) proteins.

Name: Diane STEWART
Position:Operations Manager
Laboratory:Administration
Email:DianeS(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4471

Name: Dr Elke STRÖHER
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:Small
Email:estroh(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4435

Name: Yew-Foon TAN
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:millar
Email:tany07(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4435 lab: (08) 6488 7004

Isolation, identification and characterisation of potential metal-binding proteins and metal transporters in the mitochondria.

Name: Dr Sandra TANZ
Position:Post-doctoral Research Associate
Laboratory:small
Email:stanz(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4433 lab: (08) 6488 4498

Subcellular localization and Protein targeting.

Name: Dr Nicolas (Nic) TAYLOR
Position:ARC Australian Post-doctoral Fellow
Laboratory:Millar
Email:ntaylor(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au (with cv)
Phone: office: (08) 6488 2795 lab: (08) 6488 7004

Proteomics, Mass Spec, Environmental Stress, Lipids

Name: Mr Matthew TIMMINS
Position:Development Scientist
Laboratory:metabolomics australia
Email:matthew.timmins(at)uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4457 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Metabolomics, energy metabolism, photosynthetic hydrogen production from green algae

Name: Tiago TOMAZ
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:millar
Email:tomazt01(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: 4435

Analysing the Involvement of Plant Mitochondria in the Regulation of Foliar Vitamin C levels

Name: Julian TONTI-FILIPPINI
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:millar
Email:tontij01(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4466 lab: (08) 6488 7004

Bioinformatics, proteomics and mass spectrometry.

Name: Vindya UGGALLA
Position:PhD Student
Laboratory:whelan
Email:uggalv01(at)student.uwa.edu.au

Kinetics of transcript induction under stress, Promoter Analysis, RNAi silencing

Name: Dr Olivier VAN AKEN
Position:Research Associate
Laboratory:millar
Email:olake(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: 2122

Analysis of the mitochondrial stress-response and retrograde signalling

Name: Dr Jim WHELAN
Position:Chief Investigator
Laboratory:whelan
Email:seamus(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 1749 lab: (08) 6488 2123

Name: Andrew WISZNIEWSKI
Position:PhD student
Laboratory:smith
Email:wiszna01(at)student.uwa.edu.au

Discovery and function of peroxisome proteins

Name: Aaron YAP
Position:PhD student
Laboratory:Small
Email:yapa02(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4433 lab: (08) 6488 4498

Name: Bo ZHANG
Position:PhD student
Laboratory:Whelan
Email:zhangb01(at)student.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4431 lab: (08) 6488 2123

Name: Dr Wenxu ZHOU
Position:Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Laboratory:smith
Email:wzhou(at)cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Phone: office: (08) 6488 4457 lab: (08) 6488 4417

Energy metabolism, fatty acids and sterol function in plants. Metabolomics methods development. Metabolic profiling of mutants.

*This list includes Centre-funded personnel (designated in postion titles) and also personnel funded independently on ARC, state government and independent university funds (termed Affiliates) but housed within the laboratories of the Chief Investigators within the School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences at the University of Western Australia and elsewhere.