Prof Jorge Casal
Professor
IFEVA-CONICET / University of Buenos Aires
Leloir Foundation Institute
Argentina
Prof Jorge Casal is pioneer in the area of shade avoidance and also credited with the demonstration of PHYB as a thermosensor.
SKB Lab - where individuals value teamwork
We collaborate within and outside Australia as modern science requires multidisciplinary approaches. This list is always under development with novel approaches and new collaborations.
in Photo: Group meeting at IBCAS, China with Prof Yalong Guo's group on Visiting Professorship.
Dr. Alex Fournier-Level
Senior Lecturer
School of Biosciences
University of Melbourne
Australia
Alex is interested how organisms develop strategies to successfully adapt to their environment. We collaborate to figure out transgenerational effects on thermal responses in plants.
A/Prof Joseph (Sefi) Rosenbluh
Associate Professor
Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Monash University
Australia
Sefi's group uses state of the art functional genomic tools including pooleed CRISPR screens to address diverse biological questions.
Dr Partha Das
Senior Research Fellow (Senior Lecturer)
Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Monash University
Australia
Patha's group focuses on how modifications of DNA, RNA and histones (epigenetics/epi-transcriptomics) modulate gene regulation.
Dr Sridevi Sureshkumar
ARC Future Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
Monash University
Sridevi's group (GATC Lab) is looking at epigenetic gene regulation in plants.
A/Prof David Powell
Director
Monash Bioinformatics Platform
Monash University
Australia
A/Prof David Powell's group is developing diverse suits of approaches for genomic analysis
A/Prof Hariharan Easwaran
Associate Professor of Oncology
John Hopkins Medical University
Baltimore
USA
Hari is interested in Cancer genetics and epigenetics
Prof Mauro D'Amato
Ikerbasque Research Professor
CIC bioGUNE
Spain
Mauro heads the Gastrointestinal genetics lab and has been using Genome Wide Association Analysis and large networks of international collaboration to study IBD, IBS and other gastrointestinal disorders.
Prof Bernard Carroll
Professor
School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland
Australia
Bernie's group is interested in the molecular genetics and gene expression and development.
Prof Yalong Guo
Professor
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing,
China
Yalong's group is interested in evolutionary genomics, speciation and adaptation.
Prof Hongtao Liu
Professor
Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology
Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences
Shanghai
China
Hongtao and colleagues focus on light regulated transcription and its impact on plant development.
Current Collaborators
Prof Thiruma V Arumugam (Garrie)
Professor
Physilogy, Anatomy & Microbiology
La Trobe University
Australia
Garrie's work focuses on cell death mechansims in stroke and vascular dementia.
Prof Martin Delatycki
Professor
Murdoch Childrens Research Insitute
The Royal Childrens Hospital
Melbourne
Prof Delatycki is a well known clinical geneticist and the leading physician for Friedreich's ataxia in Australia.
Dr Harsh Raman
Senior Research Scientist
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Wagga Wagga
Australia
Dr Raman has an interest in plant molecular biology and using molecular tools for crop improvement.
Dr Martijn van Zanten
Assistant Professor
Molecular Plant Physiology
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Martijn's group is interested in exploring thermomorphogenesis and has an active interest in the role of histone deacetylation in gene regulation.
Dr. Carlos Alonso-Blanco
Spanish National Research Council
Madrid
Splain
A/Prof Mikael Boden
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
The University of Queensland
Australia
Prof Neena Mitter
Centre for Plant Science
QAAFI
The University of Queensland
Australia
Dr Neeti Sanan Mishra
ICGEB
New Delhi
India
Prof Sunil Mukherjee
New Delhi
India
Prof Charles Spillane
Department of Plant Science
National Univeristy of Ireland
Ireland
Prof Janet Wiles
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Former Collaborators
{Papers
1. Mendez-Vigo, B., Ausin, I., Zhu, W., Molla-Morales, A., Balasubramanian, S and Alonso-Blanco, C (2019) Genetic interactions and molecular evolution of the duplicated genes ICARUS 2 and ICARUS 1 help Arabidopsis plants adapt to different ambient temperatures. Plant Cell, 31(6):1222-1237.
2. Zhu, W., Ausin, I., Seleznev, A., Mendez-Vigo.B., Pico, FX., Sureshkumar, S., Sundaramoorthi, V., Bulach, D., Powell, D., Seemann, T., Alonso-Blanco, C* and Balasubramanian, S* (2015) Natural variation identifies ICARUS1, a universal gene required for cell proliferation and growth at high temperatures in Arabidopsis thaliana, PLoS Genetics, 11(5):e1005085 (*shared corresponding authors)
{Papers
1. Essebier, A., Wolf, PV., Cao, MD., Carroll, BJ., Balasubramanian, S* and Boden, M* (2016), Statistical enrichment of epigenetic states around triplet repeats that can undergo expansions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10:92 (*shared corresponding authors).
2. Cao, MD., Balasubramanian, S and Boden, M (2014) Sequencing technologies and tools for short tandem repeat variation detection. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 6 Feb 2014, doi: 10.1093/bib/bbu001.
3. Cao, MD., Tasker, E., Willadsen, K., Imelfort, M., Vishwanathan, S., Sureshkumar, S., Balasubramanian, S* and Boden, M* (2014) Inferring short tandem repeat variation from paired-end reads, Nucleic Acids Research, 42(3):e6. (*shared corresponding authors)
4. Willadsen, K., Cao, MD., Wiles, J., Balasubramanian, S and Boden, M (2013) Repeat-encoded tracts show statistical commonalities across species, BMC https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2164-14-76Genomics, 14:76, doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-76
{Papers
1. Tabib, A., Vishwanathan, S., Seleznev, A., McKeown PC., Downing, T., Dent, C., Sanchez-Bermejo, E., Colling, L., Spillane, C and Balasubramanian, S (2016) A polynucleotide repeat expansion causing temperature-sensitivity persists in wild Irish accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana, Frontiers in Plant Science, 7:1311. doi:10.3389/fpls.2016.01311
{Papers
1. Willadsen, K., Cao, MD., Wiles, J., Balasubramanian, S and Boden, M (2013) Repeat-encoded tracts show statistical commonalities across species, BMC Genomics, 14:76, doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-76
