Dr Matthew Gilliham

Biography/ Background

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Plant Cell Physiology

Grapevine Salinity Tolerance

2006- Senior Research Fellow.
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Australia.

2002-2006 BBSRC Postdoctoral Associate. (Supervisors: Dr. J.M. Davies &
Professor M. Tester)
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Characterisation of ion channel selectivity by novel electrophysiological method.

2003-2004  BBSRC Wain International Research Fellow. (with Professor S.D. Tyerman)
Discipline of Wine and Horticulture, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Integration of microelectrode based ion-flux measurement with patch clamp electrophysiology.

This Fellowship is advertised nationally and awarded competitively by the BBSRC.

1998-2002 Ph.D. (Supervisor: Dr. M. Tester)
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, U.K &
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, U.K.
Regulation of anion channels in maize stele by water stress.

BBSRC funded; Awarded Departmental Frank Smart Studentship (1999-2002)
for progress and achievements during my Ph.D. studies.

1994-1997 B.Sc. (Hons) in Ecology, First Class, Lancaster University, U.K.
Dissertation: Drought response of two calcicolous grassland species.
(Supervisor: Professor W.J. Davies)

1995-1996  Exchange Scholarship to University of Calgary, Canada.
Dissertation (literature-based): Environmental Plant Physiology
(Supervisor: Dr. D.M. Reid)

 

Publications

Recent publications (2005-present)

Conn S.J. and Gilliham M. (in press) Comparative physiology of elemental distributions in plants. Annals of Botany. 

Møller I., Gilliham M., Jha D., Roy S.J., Coates J., Haseloff  J., Tester M. (2009) Shoot Na⁺ exclusion and increased salinity tolerance engineered by cell type-specific alteration of Na⁺ transport in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 21:2163-2178. 

Tyerman S.D., Vandeleur R.K., Shelden M.C., Tilbrook G., Mayo G., Gilliham M., Kaiser B.N. (2009) Water transport and aquaporins in grapevines. In, Roubekakis-Angelakis KA (ed) Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Grapevine. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands. 

Vandeleur R.K., Mayo G., Shelden M.C., Gilliham M., Kaiser B.N., Tyerman S.D. (2008) The Role of PIP Aquaporins in Water Transport through Roots: Diurnal and Drought Stress Responses Reveal Different Strategies between Isohydric and Anisohydric Cultivars of Grapevine. Plant Physiology 149:445-460.

Tracy F., Gilliham M., Dodd A.N., Webb A.R., Tester M. (2008) NaCl-induced changes in cytosolic free Ca²⁺ in Arabidopsis thaliana are heterogeneous and modified by external ionic composition. Plant Cell Environment 31:1063-1073.

Roy S.J., Gilliham M., Berger B., Essah P.A., Cheffings C., Miller A.J., Davenport R.J., Liu L-H., Skynner M.J., Davies J.M., Richardson P., Leigh R.A., Tester M. (2008) Investigating glutamate receptor-like gene co-expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Environment 31:861-871.

Gilliham, M. (2007) Membrane structure and methods for studying membrane transport. In, Plant Solute Transport. Eds. A.R., Yeo.& T. J. Flowers, Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

Gilliham, M., Sullivan, W., Tester, M. & Tyerman, S.D. (2006) Simultaneous ion-flux and current measurement from plant protoplasts. Plant Journal 46:134-144.

Gilliham, M., Campbell, M., Becker, D. Dubos, C., Davenport, R.J. (2006) The Arabidopsis thaliana glutamate-like receptors (AtGLR). In, Communication in Plants: Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life. Eds. Baluška, F., Mancuso, S., Volkmann, D. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany. pp. 187-204.

Gilliham, M. & Tester, M. (2005) The regulation of anion loading to the maize root xylem. Plant Physiology 137: 819-828.

Entry last updated: Friday, 20 Nov 2009