Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Research Funding
Publications
Professional Associations

Dr Stephen Tyerman

Telephone	+61 8 8313 6663
Position	Professor
Email	steve.tyerman@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 0431
Mobile	+61 4 1177 6050
Building	Plant Research Centre
Floor/Room	2 30
Campus	Waite
Org Unit	Wine and Horticulture

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Biography/ Background

Professor Tyerman has researched nutrition, salinity and water relations in plants for some 25 years. In 2001 he obtained the Wine Industry Chair of Viticulture at the University of Adelaide. He has received several awards for his plant physiology research and was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2003. He was President of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists (2004- 2006) and a member of the College of Experts for the Australian Research Council (2007-2009), and has won a prestigious Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship to research calcium and water transport in plants (2007-2011). He is currently head of the Plant Physiology, Viticulture and Horticulture Research Group within the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, is a member of the Wine 2030 Research Network Advisory Committee, and a member of the Wine Innovation Cluster.

Qualifications

BSc Hons (University of Sydney)

PhD (University of Sydney)

Teaching Interests

Plant Physiology and Ecophysiology

Viticulture

Plant Membrane Transport

Research Interests

http://www.sciences.adelaide.edu.au/plant_physiology/physiology/grapevine.html

Research Funding

Australian Research Council

Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation

Publications

Professional Associations

Australian Society for Plant Scientists

Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology

American Scociety of Plant Biologists

Associate Editor for Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research

Associate Editor for Functional Plant Biology

Editorial Board of Plant Cell and Environment

Entry last updated: Saturday, 19 Jun 2010

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