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A/Prof Tina Offler

Associate Professor Christina (Tina) Offler
Position: Conjoint Associate Professor in Biological Sciences
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Science and Information Technology
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Telephone: +61 2 4921 5086
+61 2 4921 5704
Facsimile: +61 2 4921 5361
+61 2 4921 5877
Email: Tina.Offler@newcastle.edu.au
Location: Science Building
Room SB203
Biology Building
Room B112
Campus: Callaghan
Qualifications:
  • PhD (1971) Department of Botany, The University of Adelaide
Research Areas:

Control of sucrose transport in sink regions of plants: the cellular pathway, the role of transfer cells, tissue localization of solute porters.

Current projects include:

  • Control of transfer cell development in cotyledons of Vicia faba
  • Identification of proteins regulating transfer cell development in wheat
  • Molecular and cellular biology of sucrose and amino acid porters in developing legume seed (with Assoc. Prof. J.W. Patrick)
  • Tissue specific localization of gene expression in grape berry (with Drs S Robinson, I Dry & M. Thomas)
Research Grants:
  • ARC Large Grant (1994-96, $121,000)
  • ARC Large Grant (1995-97 - with Assoc.Prof. J.W.Patrick, $201,000)
  • RMC,Uni.of Newcastle (1994-95, $46,000)
  • CSIRO/University of Newcastle (1994-95, $30,000)
Honours, Distinctions, Societies:  
Teaching Interests:  
Supervision of Students:
  • Felicity Andriunas - PhD (Biological Sciences)
    Signals and Signalling Pathways Leading to Transfer Cell Induction
  • Stephen Bell - PhD (Biological Sciences)
    The Vegetation Occurring on Deep Sand Deposits in the Northern Sydney Basin
  • Katie Chan - PhD (Biological Sciences)
    Regulation Of Sugar Transporters In Developing Legume Seeds
  • Katherine Dibley - PhD (Biological Sciences)
    Phloem Unloading of Sucrose: Cloning, Functional Characterisation and Regulation of Novel Membrane Transporters
  • Colin Driscoll - PhD (Biological Sciences)
    The Ecology of Reproduction and Propagation in Rare Plants
  • Nigel Fisher - PhD (Biological Sciences)
    Rebuilding Sustainable and Functional biodiversity following Coal Mining
  • Lucyna Gayler - PhD (Environmental Science)
    Environmental Change In The Paroo Region
  • Nathan Setz - PhD (Biological Sciences)
    Mechanism(s) and Regulation of Sucrose Release in Developing Bean Seeds
  • Trimurti Wardini - PhD (Biological Sciences)
    Cell Biology Of Transfer Cell Induction
Professional Positions:
  • Senior Tutor (1977-84)
  • Lecturer (1985-90)
  • Senior Lecturer (1991- 1997)
  • Associate Professor (1997 - present)

Publications: Link to: Researcher Report
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