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A/Prof. David McCurdy

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Research Supervision

Number of current supervisions 3
Total current UoN PhD EFTSL 2.3

For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics, and the institution name is listed below the program name.

Current Supervision

Commenced Proposed
Completion
Program Supervisor Type Research Title
2013 2017 PhD (Biological Sciences) Principal Supervisor Investigating a Role for NAC Transcription Factors as Master Regulators of Transfer Cell Development in Arabidopsis Thaliana
2012 2016 PhD (Biological Sciences) Principal Supervisor Characterising the Role of At4g09450 as a Candidate Master Regulator of Transfer Cell Development in the Model Flowering Plant Arabidopsis Thaliana
2011 2015 PhD (Biological Sciences) Principal Supervisor Discovering Transcription Factors Regulating Wall Ingrowth Formation in Plant Transfer Cells

Past Supervision

Year Program Supervisor Type Research Title
2013 PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Discovering Roles of Calcium and Cortical Microtubules in Directing Ingrowth Wall Formation During Trans-Differentiation of Epidermal Cells to a Transfer Cell Morphology
2011 PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Transfer Cell Trans-differentiation in Vicia Faba Cotyledons: Regulatory Roles of Ethylene, Glucose and Reactive Oxygen Species
2007 PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Towards an Understanding of Organelle Inheritance Processes During Plant Cell Dedifferentiation
2006 PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Investigating mechanisms of localized wall ingrowth deposition in transfer cells
2005 PhD (Biological Sciences) Principal Supervisor The Role of Hexose/H+ Symporters in Sugar Accumulation by Fruit of Tomato (Lycopersicon Esculentum)
2001 PHD Biol Sc Not Elsewhere Classifd
University of Newcastle
Co-Supervisor Molecular biology of hexose transporters in tomato fruit