SKB lab-where individuals value teamwork

 

We collaborate both within and outside Australia as we value team efforts. This list is always under growth as we aim to contribute to the efforts on important issues of global importance.

Prof Janet Wiles

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

The University of Queensland

Prof Sunil Mukherjee

New Delhi

India

Dr Neeti Sanan Mishra

ICGEB

New Delhi

India

Assoc Prof Neena Mitter

Centre for Plant Science

QAAFI

The University of Queensland

Prof Charles Spillane

Head of the Department

Department of Plant Sciences

National University of Ireland, Galway

Ireland

Co-authored publications

  1. 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

Prof Bernie Carroll

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biology

The University of Queensland

Co-authored publications

  1. 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, 23 Feb 2016, doi:10.3389/fnins.2016.00092 (*shared corresponding authors).

  2. 2.Eimer, H*., Sureshkumar, S*., Singh Yadav, A., Kraupner-Taylor, C., Bandaranayake, C., Seleznev, A., Thomason, T., Fletcher, SJ., Gordon, SF., Carroll, BJ and Balasubramanian, S (2018) RNA-dependent epigenetic silencing directs transcriptional downregulation caused by intronic repeat expansions. Cell, 174(5):1095-1105.

Assoc Prof David Powell

Monash Bioinformatics Platform

Monash University

Co-authored publications

  1. 1.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)

Dr Harsh Raman

Principal Research Scientist (Molecular Biology)

NSW Department of Primary Industries

Wagga Wagga

Co-authored publications

  1. 1.Raman, H., Raman, R., Qiu, Y., Singh Yadav, A., Sureshkumar, S., Borg, L., Rohan, M., Wheeler, D., Owen, O., Menz, I and Balasubramanian, S (2019) GWAS hints at pleiotropic roles for FLOWERING LOCUS T in flowering time and yield-related traits in canola. BMC Genomics, 20(1):636.

  2. 2.Raman, H., Raman, R., Coombes, N., Song, J., Pragnell, R., Bandaranayake, C., Tahira, R., Sundaramoorthi, V., Killian, A., Meng, J., Dennis, ES and Balasubramanian, S (2015) Genome-wide association analyses reveal complex genetic architecture underlying natural variation for flowering time in canola, Plant Cell and Environment, 39(6):1228-1239. doi:10.1111/pce.12644

Prof Martin Delatycki

Bruce Lefroy Centre

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

The Royal Children’s Hospital

Melbourne

Dr Marguerite Evans-Galea

Bruce Lefroy Centre

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

The Royal Children’s Hospital

Melbourne

Dr. Martijn van Zanten

Assistant Professor

Molecular Plant Physiology

Utrecht University

Padualaan 8

3584CH Utrech

Co-authored publications

  1. 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

Co-authored publications

  1. 1.Tasset, C., Singh Yadav, A., Sureshkumar, S., Singh, R., van der Woude, L., Nekasov, M., Tremethick, D., van Zanten, M and Balasubramanian, S (2018) POWERDRESS-mediated histone deacetylation is essential for thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana, PLoS Genetics, 14(3):e1007280

Dr. Carlos Alonso-Blanco

Spanish National Research Council

Madrid

Spain

Co-authored publications

  1. 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. 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)

Assoc Prof Mikael Boden

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

The University of Queensland

Co-authored publications

  1. 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, 23 Feb 2016, doi:10.3389/fnins.2016.00092 (*shared corresponding authors).

  2. 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. 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. doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1313. (*shared corresponding authors)

  4. 4.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

Assoc Prof Thiruma V Arumugam

Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

National University of Singapore

Singapore

Prof Andrea Robinson

School of Chemistry

Monash University

Papers

  1. 1.Raman, H., Raman, R., Qiu, Y., Singh Yadav, A., Sureshkumar, S., Borg, L., Maheswaran R., Wheeler, D., Owen, O, Menz, I and Balasubramanian, S (2019) GWAS hints at pleiotropic roles for FLOWERNG LOCUS T in flowering time and yield-related traits in canola. BMC Genomics, 20(1):636.

  2. 2.Eimer, H*., Sureshkumar, S*., Singh Yadav, A., Kraupner-Taylor, C., Bandaranayake, C., Seleznev, A., Thomason, T., Fletcher, SJ., Gordon, SF., Carroll, BJ and Balasubramanian, S (2018) RNA-dependent epigenetic silencing directes transcriptional downregulation caused by intronic repeat expansions, Cell, 174(5):1095-1105. (*shared first author)

  3. 3.Tasset, C., Singh Yadav, A., Sureshkumar, S., Singh, R., van der Woude, L., Nekrasov, M., Tremethick, D., van Zanten, M and Balasubramanian, S (2018) POWERDRESS-mediated histone deacetylation is essential for thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana, PLoS Genetics, 14(3):e1007280.

  4. 4.Sureshkumar, S., Dent, C., Seleznev, A., Tasset, C and Balasubramanian, S (2016) Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay modulates FLM-dependent thermosensory flowering response in Arabidopsis, Nature Plants, 2(5):16055

  5. 5.Sanchez-Bermejo, E., Zhu, W., Tasset, C., Eimer, H., Sureshkumar, S., Singh, R., Sundaramoorthi, V., Colling, L and Balasubramanian, S (2015) Genetic architecture of natural variation in thermal responses of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 169(1):647-659.

  6. 6.Zhu, W., Ausin, I., Seleznev, A., Mendez-Vigo, B., Pico, FC., Sureshkumar, S., Sundaramoorthi, V., Bulach, D., Powell, D., Seemann, T., Alonso-Blanco, C and Balasubramanian, S (2015) PLoS Genetics, 11(5):e1005085.

  7. 7.Cao, MD., Tasker, E., Willadsen, K., Imelfort, M., Vishwanathan, S., Sureshkumar, S and Balasubramanian, S (2014) Inferring short tandem repeat variation from paired-end short reads, Nucleic Acids Research, 42(3):e16.

Dr. Sridevi Sureshkumar

ARC Future Fellow

School of Biological Sciences

Monash University