Professor John Christie

  • Professor of Photobiology (Molecular Biosciences)

telephone: 01413302392
email: John.Christie@glasgow.ac.uk

R307 Level 3, Bower Building, School of Molecular Biosciences, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-0055

Biography

John obtained his BSc Honours in Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1992 before taking up a PhD position with Gareth Jenkins at Glasgow, funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, to investigate how UV/blue light regulates the expression of flavonoid biosynthesis genes in plants. He then moved to Stanford in 1997 to take up a postdoctoral research position with Winslow Briggs at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and returned to Glasgow in 2002 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow to continue his research on natural and synthetic photoreceptor systems. He is currently Professor of Photobiology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and co-leads the North West Biosciences Doctoral Landscape Programme. He has served on the BBSRC panel of experts, is a member of the RSE A3 Sectional Committee, and is Head of the Physiology and Development Section for the journal New Phytologist.

John has extensive experience in studying how plants detect and respond to light and is recognised internationally in the field of plant photobiology, chairing the Gordon Research Conference on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction in 2016, Galveston, Texas. His research has contributed to major advances in plant photobiology, including identification of the long sought after photoreceptor for phototropism, phototropin [Christie et al. (1998) Science 282, 1698; Christie et al. (1999) PNAS, 96, 8779], as well as uncovering the molecular basis of the plant UV-B-photoreceptor, UVR8 [Christie et al. (2012) Science 335, 1492]. His research has also developed technologies derived from plant photoreceptors, including new fluorescent reporters [Chapman et al. (2008) PNAS 150, 20038] and optogenetic tools to synthetically control K+ fluxes in neurons [Cosentino et al. (2015) Science 348, 707] and plants [Papanatsiou et al. (2019) Science, 363, 1456] resulting in patent filings (US patent application 17/431,984 and PCT/EP2023/053078).

Research interests

  • Molecular basis of UV/blue light signalling in plants
  • Engineering novel fluorescent proteins
  • Design of synthetic photoswitches for optogenetic applications

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 71.

2024

Liu, W. et al. (2024) Phosphorylation of Arabidopsis UVR8 photoreceptor modulates protein interactions and responses to UV-B radiation. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1221. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45575-7) (PMID:38336824) (PMCID:PMC10858049)

2023

Waksman, T., Suetsugu, N., Hermanowicz, P., Ronald, J. , Sullivan, S. , Łabuz, J. and Christie, J. M. (2023) Phototropin phosphorylation of ROOT PHOTOTROPISM 2 and its role in mediating phototropism, leaf positioning and chloroplast accumulation movement in arabidopsis. Plant Journal, 114(2), pp. 390-402. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.16144) (PMID:36794876)

2022

Kjeldsen, A. et al. (2022) The fluorescent protein iLOV as a reporter for screening of high‐yield production of antimicrobial peptides in Pichia pastoris. Microbial Biotechnology, 15(7), pp. 2126-2139. (doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.14034) (PMID:35312165) (PMCID:PMC9249318)

Naqvi, S., He, Q., Trusch, F., Qiu, H., Pham, J., Sun, Q., Christie, J. M. , Gilroy, E. M. and Birch, P. R.J. (2022) Blue‐light receptor phototropin 1 suppresses immunity to promote Phytophthora infestans infection. New Phytologist, 233(5), pp. 2282-2293. (doi: 10.1111/nph.17929) (PMID:34923631)

2021

Sullivan, S. , Waksman, T., Paliogianni, D., Henderson, L., Lütkemeyer, M., Suetsugu, N. and Christie, J. M. (2021) Regulation of plant phototropic growth by NPH3/RPT2-like substrate phosphorylation and 14-3-3 binding. Nature Communications, 12, 6129. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26333-5) (PMID:34675214) (PMCID:PMC8531357)

Christie, J. M. and Zurbriggen, M. D. (2021) Optogenetics in plants. New Phytologist, 229(6), pp. 3108-3115. (doi: 10.1111/nph.17008) (PMID:33064858)

2020

Inoue, S.‐I. et al. (2020) CIPK23 regulates blue light-dependent stomatal opening in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal, 104(3), pp. 679-692. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.14955) (PMID:32780529)

2019

Hart, J. E., Sullivan, S. , Hermanowicz, P., Petersen, J., Diaz-Ramos, L. A., Hoey, D. J., Łabuz, J. and Christie, J. M. (2019) Engineering the phototropin photocycle improves photoreceptor performance and plant biomass production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(25), pp. 12550-12557. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902915116) (PMID:31160455) (PMCID:PMC6589663)

Sullivan, S. , Kharshiing, E., Laird, J., Sakai, T. and Christie, J. M. (2019) Deetiolation enhances phototropism by modulating NON-PHOTOTROPIC HYPOCOTYL3 phosphorylation status. Plant Physiology, 180, pp. 1119-1131. (doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00206) (PMID:30918082) (PMCID:PMC6548275)

Papanatsiou, M., Petersen, J., Henderson, L., Wang, Y., Christie, J.M. and Blatt, M.R. (2019) Optogenetic manipulation of stomatal kinetics improves carbon assimilation, water use, and growth. Science, 363(6434), pp. 1456-1459. (doi: 10.1126/science.aaw0046) (PMID:30923223)

Camacho, I. S., Theisen, A., Johannissen, L. O., Díaz-Ramos, L. A., Christie, J. M. , Jenkins, G. I. , Bellina, B., Barran, P. and Jones, A. R. (2019) Native mass spectrometry reveals the conformational diversity of the UVR8 photoreceptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(4), pp. 1116-1125. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1813254116) (PMID:30610174) (PMCID:PMC6347689)

2018

Agliassa, C., Narayana, R., Christie, J. M. and Maffei, M. E. (2018) Geomagnetic field impacts on cryptochrome and phytochrome signaling. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 185, pp. 32-40. (doi: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2018.05.027) (PMID:29864723)

Homans, R. J., Khan, R. U., Andrews, M. B., Kjeldsen, A. E., Natrajan, L. S., Marsden, S., McKenzie, E. A., Christie, J. M. and Jones, A. R. (2018) Two photon spectroscopy and microscopy of the fluorescent flavoprotein, iLOV. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(25), pp. 16949-16955. (doi: 10.1039/c8cp01699b) (PMID:29873653)

Xue, Y. et al. (2018) Arabidopsis blue light receptor phototropin 1 undergoes blue light-induced activation in membrane microdomains. Molecular Plant, 11(6), pp. 846-859. (doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2018.04.003) (PMID:29689384)

Christie, J. M. (2018) Phototropins and other LOV-containing proteins. In: Roberts, J. (ed.) Annual Plant Reviews. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 49-78. ISBN 9781119312994 (doi: 10.1002/9781119312994.apr0312)

Schnabel, J., Hombach, P., Waksman, T., Guiriani, G., Petersen, J. and Christie, J. M. (2018) A chemical genetic approach to engineer phototropin kinases for substrate labeling. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293(15), pp. 5613-5623. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.001834) (PMID:29475950) (PMCID:PMC5900772)

Christie, J. M. , Suetsugu, N., Sullivan, S. and Wada, M. (2018) Shining light on the function of NPH3/RPT2-like proteins in phototropin signalling. Plant Physiology, 176(2), pp. 1015-1024. (doi: 10.1104/pp.17.00835) (PMID:28720608) (PMCID:PMC5813532)

2017

McIntosh, A., Meikle, L. M., Ormsby, M. J. , McCormick, B. A., Christie, J. M. , Brewer, J. M. , Roberts, M. and Wall, D. M. (2017) SipA activation of caspase-3 is a decisive mediator of host cell survival at early stages of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium Infection. Infection and Immunity, 85(9), e00393-17. (doi: 10.1128/IAI.00393-17) (PMID:28630067) (PMCID:PMC5563584)

Petersen, J., Inoue, S.-i., Kelly, S. M. , Sullivan, S. , Kinoshita, T. and Christie, J. M. (2017) Functional characterization of a constitutively active kinase variant of Arabidopsis phototropin 1. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292(33), pp. 13843-13852. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M117.799643) (PMID:28663371) (PMCID:PMC5566536)

2016

Sullivan, S. , Takemiya, A., Kharshiing, E., Cloix, C., Shimazaki, K.-i. and Christie, J. M. (2016) Functional characterisation of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 in the hypocotyl apex. Plant Journal, 88(6), pp. 907-920. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.13313) (PMID:27545835) (PMCID:PMC5215551)

Heilmann, M., Velanis, C. N., Cloix, C., Smith, B. O. , Christie, J. M. and Jenkins, G. I. (2016) Dimer/monomer status and in vivo function of salt-bridge mutants of the plant UV-B photoreceptor UVR8. Plant Journal, 88(1), pp. 71-81. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.13260) (PMID:27385642) (PMCID:PMC5091643)

Gawthorne, J. A., Audry, L., McQuitty, C., Dean, P., Christie, J. M. , Enninga, J. and Roe, A. J. (2016) Visualizing translocation and localization of bacterial type III effector proteins using a genetically encoded reporter system. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(9), pp. 2700-2708. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.03418-15) (PMID:25576618) (PMCID:PMC4345375)

Buckley, A. M., Jukes, C., Candlish, D., Irvine, J. J., Spencer, J., Fagan, R. P., Roe, A. J. , Christie, J. , Fairweather, N. F. and Douce, G. R. (2016) Lighting up Clostridium Difficile: reporting gene expression using fluorescent Lov domains. Scientific Reports, 6, 23463. (doi: 10.1038/srep23463) (PMID:26996606) (PMCID:PMC4800718)

Sullivan, S. , Hart, J. E., Rasch, P., Walker, C. and Christie, J. (2016) Phytochrome A mediates blue-light enhancement of second-positive phototropism in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, 290. (doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00290) (PMID:27014313) (PMCID:PMC4786545)

Sullivan, S. , Petersen, J., Blackwood, L., Papanatsiou, M. and Christie, J. M. (2016) Functional characterisation of Ostreococcus tauri phototropin. New Phytologist, 209(2), pp. 612-623. (doi: 10.1111/nph.13640) (PMID:26414490)

2015

Buckley, A. M., Petersen, J., Roe, A. J. , Douce, G. R. and Christie, J. M. (2015) LOV-based reporters for fluorescence imaging. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 27, pp. 39-45. (doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.05.011) (PMID:26087123)

Fankhauser, C. and Christie, J. M. (2015) Plant Phototropic Growth. Current Biology, 25(9), R384-R389. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.020) (PMID:25942556)

Preuten, T., Blackwood, L., Christie, J. M. and Fankhauser, C. (2015) Lipid anchoring of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 to assess the functional significance of receptor internalization: should I stay or should I go? New Phytologist, 206(3), pp. 1038-1050. (doi: 10.1111/nph.13299) (PMID:25643813)

Heilmann, M., Christie, J. M. , Kennis, J. T.M., Jenkins, G. I. and Mathes, T. (2015) Photoinduced transformation of UVR8 monitored by vibrational and fluorescence spectroscopy. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 14(2), pp. 252-257. (doi: 10.1039/c4pp00246f) (PMID:25274012)

Christie, J. M. , Blackwood, L., Petersen, J. and Sullivan, S. (2015) Plant flavoprotein photoreceptors. Plant and Cell Physiology, 56(3), pp. 401-413. (doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcu196) (PMID:25516569) (PMCID:PMC4357641)

Cosentino, C. et al. (2015) Engineering of a light-gated potassium channel. Science, 348(6235), pp. 707-710. (doi: 10.1126/science.aaa2787) (PMID:25954011)

Mathes, T. et al. (2015) Proton-coupled electron transfer constitutes the photoactivation mechanism of the plant photoreceptor UVR8. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(25), pp. 8113-8120. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b01177) (PMID:25955727)

Miyamori, T., Nakasone, Y., Hitomi, K., Christie, J. M. , Getzoff, E. D. and Terazima, M. (2015) Reaction dynamics of the UV-B photosensor UVR8. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 14(5), pp. 995-1004. (doi: 10.1039/c5pp00012b) (PMID:25811405)

2014

Christie, J. and Blatt, M. (2014) Plant physiology sees the light. Plant Physiology, 164(1), p. 12. (doi: 10.1104/pp.113.900477)

2013

Zhang, L., Risoul, V., Latifi, A., Christie, J.M. and Zhang, C. (2013) Exploring the size limit of protein diffusion through the periplasm in cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 using the 13 kDa iLOV fluorescent protein. Research in Microbiology, 164(7), pp. 710-717. (doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2013.05.004)

Seago, J., Juleff, N., Moffat, K., Berryman, S., Christie, J. M. , Charleston, B. and Jackson, T. (2013) An infectious recombinant foot-and-mouth disease virus expressing a fluorescent marker protein. Journal of General Virology, 94(7), pp. 1517-1527. (doi: 10.1099/vir.0.052308-0) (PMID:23559477) (PMCID:PMC3709630)

Takemiya, A., Sugiyama, N., Fujimoto, H., Tsutsumi, T., Yamauchi, S., Hiyama, A., Tada, Y., Christie, J.M. and Shimazaki, K. (2013) Phosphorylation of BLUS1 kinase by phototropins is a primary step in stomatal opening. Nature Communications, 4, 2094. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms3094) (PMID:23811955)

Christie, J.M. and Murphy, A.S. (2013) Shoot phototropism in higher plants: new light through old concepts. American Journal of Botany, 100(1), pp. 35-46. (doi: 10.3732/ajb.1200340)

2012

Cloix, C., Kaiserli, E. , Heilmann, M., Baxter, K.J. , Brown, B.A., O'Hara, A., Smith, B.O. , Christie, J.M. and Jenkins, G.I. (2012) C-terminal region of the UV-B photoreceptor UVR8 initiates signaling through interaction with the COP1 protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(40), pp. 16366-16370. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1210898109)

Demarsy, E., Schepens, I., Okajima, K., Hersch, M., Bergmann, S., Christie, J. , Shimazaki, K., Tokutomi, S. and Fankhauser, C. (2012) Phytochrome kinase substrate 4 is phosphorylated by the phototropin 1 photoreceptor. EMBO Journal, 31(16), pp. 3457-3467. (doi: 10.1038/emboj.2012.186)

Christie, J.M. , Hitomi, K., Arvai, A.S., Hartfield, K.A., Mettlen, M., Pratt, A.J., Tainer, J.A. and Getzoff, E.D. (2012) Structural tuning of the fluorescent protein iLOV for improved photostability. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287(26), pp. 22295-22304. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.318881)

Christie, J.M. et al. (2012) Plant UVR8 photoreceptor senses UV-B by tryptophan-mediated disruption of cross-dimer salt bridges. Science, 335(6075), pp. 1492-1496. (doi: 10.1126/science.1218091)

Christie, J.M. , Gawthorne, J., Young, G., Fraser, N.J. and Roe, A.J. (2012) LOV to BLUF: flavoprotein contributions to the optogenetic toolkit. Molecular Plant, (doi: 10.1093/mp/sss020) (PMID:22431563)

Gawthorne, J.A., Reddick, L.E., Akpunarlieva, S.N., Beckham, K.S.H., Christie, J.M. , Alto, N.M., Gabrielsen, M. and Roe, A.J. (2012) Express your LOV: an engineered flavoprotein as a reporter for protein expression and purification. PLoS ONE, 7(12), e52962. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052962) (PMID:23300834) (PMCID:PMC3531456)

2011

Christie, J.M. , Kaiserli, E. and Sullivan, S. (2011) Light sensing at the plasma membrane. In: Murphy, A.S. (ed.) The Plant Plasma Membrane. Series: Plant cell monographs. Springer, pp. 423-426. ISBN 9783642134319

Christie, J.M. et al. (2011) phot1 inhibition of ABCB19 primes lateral auxin fluxes in the shoot apex required for phototropism. PLoS Biology, 9(6), e1001076. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001076) (PMID:21666806) (PMCID:PMC3110179)

Djouani-Tahri, E.-B., Christie, J.M. , Sanchez-Ferandin, S., Sanchez, F., Bouget, F.-Y. and Corellou, F. (2011) A eukaryotic LOV-histidine kinase with circadian clock function in the picoalga Ostreococcus. Plant Journal, 65(4), pp. 578-588. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04444.x)

2010

Sullivan, S. , Kaiserli, E., Tseng, T.-S. and Christie, J.M. (2010) Subcellular localization and turnover of Arabidopsis phototropin 1. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 5(2), pp. 184-186. (doi: 10.4161/psb.5.2.11082)

2009

Kaiserli, E. , Sullivan, S. , Jones, M. A. , Feeney, K. A. and Christie, J. M. (2009) Domain swapping to assess the mechanistic basis of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 receptor kinase activation and endocytosis by blue light. Plant Cell, 21(10), pp. 3226-3244. (doi: 10.1105/tpc.109.067876) (PMID:19168662)

Sullivan, S. , Thompson, C. E., Kaiserli, E. and Christie, J. M. (2009) Interaction specificity of Arabidopsis 14-3-3 proteins with phototropin receptor kinases. FEBS Letters, 583(13), pp. 2187-2193. (doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.06.011) (PMID:19524572)

Sanz, C., Rodriguez-Romero, J., Idnurm, A., Christie, J.M. , Heitman, J., Corrochano, L.M. and Eslava, A.P. (2009) Phycomyces MADB interacts with MADA to form the primary photoreceptor complex for fungal phototropism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(17), pp. 7095-7100. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.0900879106)

2008

Chapman, S., Faulkner, C., Kaiserli, E. , Garcia-Mata, C., Savenkov, E.I., Roberts, A.G., Oparka, K.J. and Christie, J.M. (2008) The photoreversible fluorescent protein iLOV outperforms GFP as a reporter of plant virus infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(50), pp. 20038-20043. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807551105)

Jones, M.A. and Christie, J.M. (2008) Phototropin receptor kinase activation by blue light. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 3(1), pp. 44-46. (doi: 10.4161/psb.3.1.4848)

Sullivan, S. , Thomson, C. E., Lamont, D. J., Jones, M. A. and Christie, J. M. (2008) In Vivo phosphorylation site mapping and functional characterization of Arabidopsis phototropin 1. Molecular Plant, 1(1), pp. 178-194. (doi: 10.1093/mp/ssm017) (PMID:20031924)

2007

Devlin, P.F., Christie, J.M. and Terry, M.J. (2007) Many hands make light work. Journal of Experimental Botany, 58(12), pp. 3071-3077. (doi: 10.1093/jxb/erm251)

Christie, J.M. , Corchnoy, S.B., Swartz, T.E., Hokenson, M., Han, I.S., Briggs, W.R. and Bogomolni, R.A. (2007) Steric interactions stabilize the signaling state of the LOV2 domain of phototropin 1. Biochemistry, 46(32), pp. 9310-9319. (doi: 10.1021/bi700852w)

Christie, J.M. (2007) Phototropin blue-light receptors. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 58, pp. 21-45. (doi: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.58.032806.103951)

Christie, J. , Jones, M., Sullivan, S. and Thomson, C. (2007) Structure-function analysis of phototropin blue-light receptors. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 146(4), S227-S227. (doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.01.499)

Jones, M. A. , Feeney, K. A., Kelly, S. M. and Christie, J. M. (2007) Mutational analysis of phototropin 1 provides insights into the mechanism underlying LOV2 signal transmission. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282(9), pp. 6405-6414. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M605969200) (PMID:17164248)

Briggs, W.R., Tseng, T.S., Cho, H.Y., Swartz, T.E., Sullivan, S. , Bogomolni, R.O., Kaiserli, E. and Christie, J.M. (2007) Phototropins and their LOV domains: Versatile plant blue-light receptors. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 49(1), pp. 4-10. (doi: 10.1111/j.1672-9072.2007.00406.x)

Cho, H.-Y., Tseng, T.S., Kaiserli, E., Sullivan, S. , Christie, J.M. and Briggs, W.R. (2007) Physiological roles of the light, oxygen, or voltage domains of phototropin 1 and phototropin 2 in Arabidopsis1. Plant Physiology, 143(1), pp. 517-529. (doi: 10.1104/pp.106.089839)

2005

Onodera, A., Kong, S.G., Doi, M., Shimazaki, K.., Christie, J.M. , Mochizuki, N. and Nagatani, A. (2005) Phototropin from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is functional in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology, 46(2), pp. 367-374. (doi: 10.1093/pcp/pci037)

2004

Harper, S.M., Christie, J.M. and Gardner, K.H. (2004) Disruption of the LOV-J alpha helix interaction activates phototropin kinase activity. Biochemistry, 43(51), pp. 16184-16192. (doi: 10.1021/bi048092i)

2002

Christie, J.M. , Swartz, T.E., Bogomolni, R.A. and Briggs, W.R. (2002) Phototropin LOV domains exhibit distinct roles in regulating photoreceptor function. Plant Journal, 32(2), pp. 205-219. (doi: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01415.x)

Kashara, M. et al. (2002) Photochemical properties of the flavin mononucleotide-binding domains of the phototropins from Arabidopsis, rice, and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiology, 129(2), pp. 762-773. (doi: 10.1104/pp.002410)

Briggs, W.R. and Christie, J.M. (2002) Phototropins 1 and 2: versatile plant blue-light receptors. Trends in Plant Science, 7(5), pp. 204-210. (doi: 10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02245-8)

2001

Briggs, W.R., Christie, J.M. and Salomon, M. (2001) Phototropins: a new family of flavin-binding blue light receptors in plants. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 3(5), pp. 775-788. (doi: 10.1089/15230860152664975)

Swartz, T.E., Corchnoy, S.B., Christie, J.M. , Lewis, J.W., Szundi, I., Briggs, W.R. and Bogomolni, R.A. (2001) The phocycle of a flavin-binding domain of the blue-light photoreceptor phototropin. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276(39), pp. 36493-36500. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M103114200)

Sakai, T., Kagawa, T., Kashahara, M., Swartz, T.E., Christie, J.M. , Briggs, W.R., Wada, M. and Okada, K. (2001) Arabidopsis nph1 and npl1: Blue light receptors that mediate both phototropism and chloroplast relocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98(12), pp. 6969-6974. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.101137598)

Briggs, W.R. et al. (2001) The phototropin family of photoreceptors. Plant Cell, 13(5), pp. 993-997. (doi: 10.1105/tpc.13.5.993)

Christie, J.M. and Briggs, W.R. (2001) Blue light sensing in higher plants. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276(15), pp. 11457-11460. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.R100004200)

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Articles

Liu, W. et al. (2024) Phosphorylation of Arabidopsis UVR8 photoreceptor modulates protein interactions and responses to UV-B radiation. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1221. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45575-7) (PMID:38336824) (PMCID:PMC10858049)

Waksman, T., Suetsugu, N., Hermanowicz, P., Ronald, J. , Sullivan, S. , Łabuz, J. and Christie, J. M. (2023) Phototropin phosphorylation of ROOT PHOTOTROPISM 2 and its role in mediating phototropism, leaf positioning and chloroplast accumulation movement in arabidopsis. Plant Journal, 114(2), pp. 390-402. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.16144) (PMID:36794876)

Kjeldsen, A. et al. (2022) The fluorescent protein iLOV as a reporter for screening of high‐yield production of antimicrobial peptides in Pichia pastoris. Microbial Biotechnology, 15(7), pp. 2126-2139. (doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.14034) (PMID:35312165) (PMCID:PMC9249318)

Naqvi, S., He, Q., Trusch, F., Qiu, H., Pham, J., Sun, Q., Christie, J. M. , Gilroy, E. M. and Birch, P. R.J. (2022) Blue‐light receptor phototropin 1 suppresses immunity to promote Phytophthora infestans infection. New Phytologist, 233(5), pp. 2282-2293. (doi: 10.1111/nph.17929) (PMID:34923631)

Sullivan, S. , Waksman, T., Paliogianni, D., Henderson, L., Lütkemeyer, M., Suetsugu, N. and Christie, J. M. (2021) Regulation of plant phototropic growth by NPH3/RPT2-like substrate phosphorylation and 14-3-3 binding. Nature Communications, 12, 6129. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26333-5) (PMID:34675214) (PMCID:PMC8531357)

Christie, J. M. and Zurbriggen, M. D. (2021) Optogenetics in plants. New Phytologist, 229(6), pp. 3108-3115. (doi: 10.1111/nph.17008) (PMID:33064858)

Inoue, S.‐I. et al. (2020) CIPK23 regulates blue light-dependent stomatal opening in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal, 104(3), pp. 679-692. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.14955) (PMID:32780529)

Hart, J. E., Sullivan, S. , Hermanowicz, P., Petersen, J., Diaz-Ramos, L. A., Hoey, D. J., Łabuz, J. and Christie, J. M. (2019) Engineering the phototropin photocycle improves photoreceptor performance and plant biomass production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(25), pp. 12550-12557. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902915116) (PMID:31160455) (PMCID:PMC6589663)

Sullivan, S. , Kharshiing, E., Laird, J., Sakai, T. and Christie, J. M. (2019) Deetiolation enhances phototropism by modulating NON-PHOTOTROPIC HYPOCOTYL3 phosphorylation status. Plant Physiology, 180, pp. 1119-1131. (doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00206) (PMID:30918082) (PMCID:PMC6548275)

Papanatsiou, M., Petersen, J., Henderson, L., Wang, Y., Christie, J.M. and Blatt, M.R. (2019) Optogenetic manipulation of stomatal kinetics improves carbon assimilation, water use, and growth. Science, 363(6434), pp. 1456-1459. (doi: 10.1126/science.aaw0046) (PMID:30923223)

Camacho, I. S., Theisen, A., Johannissen, L. O., Díaz-Ramos, L. A., Christie, J. M. , Jenkins, G. I. , Bellina, B., Barran, P. and Jones, A. R. (2019) Native mass spectrometry reveals the conformational diversity of the UVR8 photoreceptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(4), pp. 1116-1125. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1813254116) (PMID:30610174) (PMCID:PMC6347689)

Agliassa, C., Narayana, R., Christie, J. M. and Maffei, M. E. (2018) Geomagnetic field impacts on cryptochrome and phytochrome signaling. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 185, pp. 32-40. (doi: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2018.05.027) (PMID:29864723)

Homans, R. J., Khan, R. U., Andrews, M. B., Kjeldsen, A. E., Natrajan, L. S., Marsden, S., McKenzie, E. A., Christie, J. M. and Jones, A. R. (2018) Two photon spectroscopy and microscopy of the fluorescent flavoprotein, iLOV. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(25), pp. 16949-16955. (doi: 10.1039/c8cp01699b) (PMID:29873653)

Xue, Y. et al. (2018) Arabidopsis blue light receptor phototropin 1 undergoes blue light-induced activation in membrane microdomains. Molecular Plant, 11(6), pp. 846-859. (doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2018.04.003) (PMID:29689384)

Schnabel, J., Hombach, P., Waksman, T., Guiriani, G., Petersen, J. and Christie, J. M. (2018) A chemical genetic approach to engineer phototropin kinases for substrate labeling. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293(15), pp. 5613-5623. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.001834) (PMID:29475950) (PMCID:PMC5900772)

Christie, J. M. , Suetsugu, N., Sullivan, S. and Wada, M. (2018) Shining light on the function of NPH3/RPT2-like proteins in phototropin signalling. Plant Physiology, 176(2), pp. 1015-1024. (doi: 10.1104/pp.17.00835) (PMID:28720608) (PMCID:PMC5813532)

McIntosh, A., Meikle, L. M., Ormsby, M. J. , McCormick, B. A., Christie, J. M. , Brewer, J. M. , Roberts, M. and Wall, D. M. (2017) SipA activation of caspase-3 is a decisive mediator of host cell survival at early stages of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium Infection. Infection and Immunity, 85(9), e00393-17. (doi: 10.1128/IAI.00393-17) (PMID:28630067) (PMCID:PMC5563584)

Petersen, J., Inoue, S.-i., Kelly, S. M. , Sullivan, S. , Kinoshita, T. and Christie, J. M. (2017) Functional characterization of a constitutively active kinase variant of Arabidopsis phototropin 1. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292(33), pp. 13843-13852. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M117.799643) (PMID:28663371) (PMCID:PMC5566536)

Sullivan, S. , Takemiya, A., Kharshiing, E., Cloix, C., Shimazaki, K.-i. and Christie, J. M. (2016) Functional characterisation of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 in the hypocotyl apex. Plant Journal, 88(6), pp. 907-920. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.13313) (PMID:27545835) (PMCID:PMC5215551)

Heilmann, M., Velanis, C. N., Cloix, C., Smith, B. O. , Christie, J. M. and Jenkins, G. I. (2016) Dimer/monomer status and in vivo function of salt-bridge mutants of the plant UV-B photoreceptor UVR8. Plant Journal, 88(1), pp. 71-81. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.13260) (PMID:27385642) (PMCID:PMC5091643)

Gawthorne, J. A., Audry, L., McQuitty, C., Dean, P., Christie, J. M. , Enninga, J. and Roe, A. J. (2016) Visualizing translocation and localization of bacterial type III effector proteins using a genetically encoded reporter system. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(9), pp. 2700-2708. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.03418-15) (PMID:25576618) (PMCID:PMC4345375)

Buckley, A. M., Jukes, C., Candlish, D., Irvine, J. J., Spencer, J., Fagan, R. P., Roe, A. J. , Christie, J. , Fairweather, N. F. and Douce, G. R. (2016) Lighting up Clostridium Difficile: reporting gene expression using fluorescent Lov domains. Scientific Reports, 6, 23463. (doi: 10.1038/srep23463) (PMID:26996606) (PMCID:PMC4800718)

Sullivan, S. , Hart, J. E., Rasch, P., Walker, C. and Christie, J. (2016) Phytochrome A mediates blue-light enhancement of second-positive phototropism in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, 290. (doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00290) (PMID:27014313) (PMCID:PMC4786545)

Sullivan, S. , Petersen, J., Blackwood, L., Papanatsiou, M. and Christie, J. M. (2016) Functional characterisation of Ostreococcus tauri phototropin. New Phytologist, 209(2), pp. 612-623. (doi: 10.1111/nph.13640) (PMID:26414490)

Buckley, A. M., Petersen, J., Roe, A. J. , Douce, G. R. and Christie, J. M. (2015) LOV-based reporters for fluorescence imaging. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 27, pp. 39-45. (doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.05.011) (PMID:26087123)

Fankhauser, C. and Christie, J. M. (2015) Plant Phototropic Growth. Current Biology, 25(9), R384-R389. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.020) (PMID:25942556)

Preuten, T., Blackwood, L., Christie, J. M. and Fankhauser, C. (2015) Lipid anchoring of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 to assess the functional significance of receptor internalization: should I stay or should I go? New Phytologist, 206(3), pp. 1038-1050. (doi: 10.1111/nph.13299) (PMID:25643813)

Heilmann, M., Christie, J. M. , Kennis, J. T.M., Jenkins, G. I. and Mathes, T. (2015) Photoinduced transformation of UVR8 monitored by vibrational and fluorescence spectroscopy. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 14(2), pp. 252-257. (doi: 10.1039/c4pp00246f) (PMID:25274012)

Christie, J. M. , Blackwood, L., Petersen, J. and Sullivan, S. (2015) Plant flavoprotein photoreceptors. Plant and Cell Physiology, 56(3), pp. 401-413. (doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcu196) (PMID:25516569) (PMCID:PMC4357641)

Cosentino, C. et al. (2015) Engineering of a light-gated potassium channel. Science, 348(6235), pp. 707-710. (doi: 10.1126/science.aaa2787) (PMID:25954011)

Mathes, T. et al. (2015) Proton-coupled electron transfer constitutes the photoactivation mechanism of the plant photoreceptor UVR8. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(25), pp. 8113-8120. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b01177) (PMID:25955727)

Miyamori, T., Nakasone, Y., Hitomi, K., Christie, J. M. , Getzoff, E. D. and Terazima, M. (2015) Reaction dynamics of the UV-B photosensor UVR8. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 14(5), pp. 995-1004. (doi: 10.1039/c5pp00012b) (PMID:25811405)

Christie, J. and Blatt, M. (2014) Plant physiology sees the light. Plant Physiology, 164(1), p. 12. (doi: 10.1104/pp.113.900477)

Zhang, L., Risoul, V., Latifi, A., Christie, J.M. and Zhang, C. (2013) Exploring the size limit of protein diffusion through the periplasm in cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 using the 13 kDa iLOV fluorescent protein. Research in Microbiology, 164(7), pp. 710-717. (doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2013.05.004)

Seago, J., Juleff, N., Moffat, K., Berryman, S., Christie, J. M. , Charleston, B. and Jackson, T. (2013) An infectious recombinant foot-and-mouth disease virus expressing a fluorescent marker protein. Journal of General Virology, 94(7), pp. 1517-1527. (doi: 10.1099/vir.0.052308-0) (PMID:23559477) (PMCID:PMC3709630)

Takemiya, A., Sugiyama, N., Fujimoto, H., Tsutsumi, T., Yamauchi, S., Hiyama, A., Tada, Y., Christie, J.M. and Shimazaki, K. (2013) Phosphorylation of BLUS1 kinase by phototropins is a primary step in stomatal opening. Nature Communications, 4, 2094. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms3094) (PMID:23811955)

Christie, J.M. and Murphy, A.S. (2013) Shoot phototropism in higher plants: new light through old concepts. American Journal of Botany, 100(1), pp. 35-46. (doi: 10.3732/ajb.1200340)

Cloix, C., Kaiserli, E. , Heilmann, M., Baxter, K.J. , Brown, B.A., O'Hara, A., Smith, B.O. , Christie, J.M. and Jenkins, G.I. (2012) C-terminal region of the UV-B photoreceptor UVR8 initiates signaling through interaction with the COP1 protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(40), pp. 16366-16370. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1210898109)

Demarsy, E., Schepens, I., Okajima, K., Hersch, M., Bergmann, S., Christie, J. , Shimazaki, K., Tokutomi, S. and Fankhauser, C. (2012) Phytochrome kinase substrate 4 is phosphorylated by the phototropin 1 photoreceptor. EMBO Journal, 31(16), pp. 3457-3467. (doi: 10.1038/emboj.2012.186)

Christie, J.M. , Hitomi, K., Arvai, A.S., Hartfield, K.A., Mettlen, M., Pratt, A.J., Tainer, J.A. and Getzoff, E.D. (2012) Structural tuning of the fluorescent protein iLOV for improved photostability. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287(26), pp. 22295-22304. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.318881)

Christie, J.M. et al. (2012) Plant UVR8 photoreceptor senses UV-B by tryptophan-mediated disruption of cross-dimer salt bridges. Science, 335(6075), pp. 1492-1496. (doi: 10.1126/science.1218091)

Christie, J.M. , Gawthorne, J., Young, G., Fraser, N.J. and Roe, A.J. (2012) LOV to BLUF: flavoprotein contributions to the optogenetic toolkit. Molecular Plant, (doi: 10.1093/mp/sss020) (PMID:22431563)

Gawthorne, J.A., Reddick, L.E., Akpunarlieva, S.N., Beckham, K.S.H., Christie, J.M. , Alto, N.M., Gabrielsen, M. and Roe, A.J. (2012) Express your LOV: an engineered flavoprotein as a reporter for protein expression and purification. PLoS ONE, 7(12), e52962. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052962) (PMID:23300834) (PMCID:PMC3531456)

Christie, J.M. et al. (2011) phot1 inhibition of ABCB19 primes lateral auxin fluxes in the shoot apex required for phototropism. PLoS Biology, 9(6), e1001076. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001076) (PMID:21666806) (PMCID:PMC3110179)

Djouani-Tahri, E.-B., Christie, J.M. , Sanchez-Ferandin, S., Sanchez, F., Bouget, F.-Y. and Corellou, F. (2011) A eukaryotic LOV-histidine kinase with circadian clock function in the picoalga Ostreococcus. Plant Journal, 65(4), pp. 578-588. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04444.x)

Sullivan, S. , Kaiserli, E., Tseng, T.-S. and Christie, J.M. (2010) Subcellular localization and turnover of Arabidopsis phototropin 1. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 5(2), pp. 184-186. (doi: 10.4161/psb.5.2.11082)

Kaiserli, E. , Sullivan, S. , Jones, M. A. , Feeney, K. A. and Christie, J. M. (2009) Domain swapping to assess the mechanistic basis of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 receptor kinase activation and endocytosis by blue light. Plant Cell, 21(10), pp. 3226-3244. (doi: 10.1105/tpc.109.067876) (PMID:19168662)

Sullivan, S. , Thompson, C. E., Kaiserli, E. and Christie, J. M. (2009) Interaction specificity of Arabidopsis 14-3-3 proteins with phototropin receptor kinases. FEBS Letters, 583(13), pp. 2187-2193. (doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.06.011) (PMID:19524572)

Sanz, C., Rodriguez-Romero, J., Idnurm, A., Christie, J.M. , Heitman, J., Corrochano, L.M. and Eslava, A.P. (2009) Phycomyces MADB interacts with MADA to form the primary photoreceptor complex for fungal phototropism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(17), pp. 7095-7100. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.0900879106)

Chapman, S., Faulkner, C., Kaiserli, E. , Garcia-Mata, C., Savenkov, E.I., Roberts, A.G., Oparka, K.J. and Christie, J.M. (2008) The photoreversible fluorescent protein iLOV outperforms GFP as a reporter of plant virus infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(50), pp. 20038-20043. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807551105)

Jones, M.A. and Christie, J.M. (2008) Phototropin receptor kinase activation by blue light. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 3(1), pp. 44-46. (doi: 10.4161/psb.3.1.4848)

Sullivan, S. , Thomson, C. E., Lamont, D. J., Jones, M. A. and Christie, J. M. (2008) In Vivo phosphorylation site mapping and functional characterization of Arabidopsis phototropin 1. Molecular Plant, 1(1), pp. 178-194. (doi: 10.1093/mp/ssm017) (PMID:20031924)

Devlin, P.F., Christie, J.M. and Terry, M.J. (2007) Many hands make light work. Journal of Experimental Botany, 58(12), pp. 3071-3077. (doi: 10.1093/jxb/erm251)

Christie, J.M. , Corchnoy, S.B., Swartz, T.E., Hokenson, M., Han, I.S., Briggs, W.R. and Bogomolni, R.A. (2007) Steric interactions stabilize the signaling state of the LOV2 domain of phototropin 1. Biochemistry, 46(32), pp. 9310-9319. (doi: 10.1021/bi700852w)

Christie, J.M. (2007) Phototropin blue-light receptors. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 58, pp. 21-45. (doi: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.58.032806.103951)

Christie, J. , Jones, M., Sullivan, S. and Thomson, C. (2007) Structure-function analysis of phototropin blue-light receptors. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 146(4), S227-S227. (doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.01.499)

Jones, M. A. , Feeney, K. A., Kelly, S. M. and Christie, J. M. (2007) Mutational analysis of phototropin 1 provides insights into the mechanism underlying LOV2 signal transmission. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282(9), pp. 6405-6414. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M605969200) (PMID:17164248)

Briggs, W.R., Tseng, T.S., Cho, H.Y., Swartz, T.E., Sullivan, S. , Bogomolni, R.O., Kaiserli, E. and Christie, J.M. (2007) Phototropins and their LOV domains: Versatile plant blue-light receptors. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 49(1), pp. 4-10. (doi: 10.1111/j.1672-9072.2007.00406.x)

Cho, H.-Y., Tseng, T.S., Kaiserli, E., Sullivan, S. , Christie, J.M. and Briggs, W.R. (2007) Physiological roles of the light, oxygen, or voltage domains of phototropin 1 and phototropin 2 in Arabidopsis1. Plant Physiology, 143(1), pp. 517-529. (doi: 10.1104/pp.106.089839)

Onodera, A., Kong, S.G., Doi, M., Shimazaki, K.., Christie, J.M. , Mochizuki, N. and Nagatani, A. (2005) Phototropin from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is functional in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology, 46(2), pp. 367-374. (doi: 10.1093/pcp/pci037)

Harper, S.M., Christie, J.M. and Gardner, K.H. (2004) Disruption of the LOV-J alpha helix interaction activates phototropin kinase activity. Biochemistry, 43(51), pp. 16184-16192. (doi: 10.1021/bi048092i)

Christie, J.M. , Swartz, T.E., Bogomolni, R.A. and Briggs, W.R. (2002) Phototropin LOV domains exhibit distinct roles in regulating photoreceptor function. Plant Journal, 32(2), pp. 205-219. (doi: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01415.x)

Kashara, M. et al. (2002) Photochemical properties of the flavin mononucleotide-binding domains of the phototropins from Arabidopsis, rice, and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiology, 129(2), pp. 762-773. (doi: 10.1104/pp.002410)

Briggs, W.R. and Christie, J.M. (2002) Phototropins 1 and 2: versatile plant blue-light receptors. Trends in Plant Science, 7(5), pp. 204-210. (doi: 10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02245-8)

Briggs, W.R., Christie, J.M. and Salomon, M. (2001) Phototropins: a new family of flavin-binding blue light receptors in plants. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 3(5), pp. 775-788. (doi: 10.1089/15230860152664975)

Swartz, T.E., Corchnoy, S.B., Christie, J.M. , Lewis, J.W., Szundi, I., Briggs, W.R. and Bogomolni, R.A. (2001) The phocycle of a flavin-binding domain of the blue-light photoreceptor phototropin. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276(39), pp. 36493-36500. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M103114200)

Sakai, T., Kagawa, T., Kashahara, M., Swartz, T.E., Christie, J.M. , Briggs, W.R., Wada, M. and Okada, K. (2001) Arabidopsis nph1 and npl1: Blue light receptors that mediate both phototropism and chloroplast relocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98(12), pp. 6969-6974. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.101137598)

Briggs, W.R. et al. (2001) The phototropin family of photoreceptors. Plant Cell, 13(5), pp. 993-997. (doi: 10.1105/tpc.13.5.993)

Christie, J.M. and Briggs, W.R. (2001) Blue light sensing in higher plants. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276(15), pp. 11457-11460. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.R100004200)

Book Sections

Christie, J. M. (2018) Phototropins and other LOV-containing proteins. In: Roberts, J. (ed.) Annual Plant Reviews. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 49-78. ISBN 9781119312994 (doi: 10.1002/9781119312994.apr0312)

Christie, J.M. , Kaiserli, E. and Sullivan, S. (2011) Light sensing at the plasma membrane. In: Murphy, A.S. (ed.) The Plant Plasma Membrane. Series: Plant cell monographs. Springer, pp. 423-426. ISBN 9783642134319

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Coordination of Photosynthetic Productivity by Phototropin Receptor Kinases
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2024 - 2027
     
  • UVR8 photoreceptor action
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2024 - 2026
     
  • IRGA-Live Clamp: An integrated infrared gas-analysis platform to investigate systemic signalling within the plant canopy
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2022 - 2023
     
  • Unlocking the Enigma of Plant Tropisms: From Light Sensing to Directional Growth
    Leverhulme Trust
    2021 - 2024
     
  • Engineering a native K+ channel to enhance stomatal kinetics - SynGORK
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2020 - 2023
     
  • Co-ordinated Photoreceptor Engineering for Improved Biomass Production
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2020 - 2023
     
  • BlinkGUARD
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2020 - 2023
     
  • UVR8 photoreceptor action and regulation
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2019 - 2022
     
  • Newton Grant - A Kjeldsen
    British Council
    2018 - 2019
     
  • How do Phototropin Receptor Kinases Initiate Signalling from the Plasma
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2018 - 2021
     
  • Photoreceptor Engineering to Modulate Plant Growth
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2014 - 2018
     
  • Modulation of Phytochrome B Signalling by Phosphorylation
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2013 - 2016
     
  • Regulation of Auxin Fluxes Required For Phototropic Growth
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2013 - 2016
     
  • How does the plant UV-B photoreceptor UVR8 initiate signalling?
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2013 - 2016
     
  • Plant UV-B photoreceptor signalling
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2012 - 2015
     
  • Utility of LOV-based Fluorescent Reporters To Monitor the Real-Time Secretion and Localisation of Bacterial Effector Proteins
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2011 - 2012
     
  • Quest for the Holy Grail of plant photobiology: a UV-B photoreceptor
    Leverhulme Trust
    2010 - 2014
     
  • Biochemical/Molecular characterisation of phototropin signalling in Arabidopsis
    The Royal Society
    2009 - 2011
     
  • Phosphoproteomic approaches to understand photoreceptor kinase function and signalling in plants
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2008 - 2009
     
  • The UVR8 UV-B-specific signalling pathway
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2008 - 2011
     
  • LOV [Light-Oxygen-Voltage] domains as novel fluorescent markers
    Gatsby Charitable Foundation
    2007 - 2008
     
  • Characterisation of the phot1-interacting protein AtMRD1 and its role in regulating phototropism
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2005 - 2008
     
  • Structure-function analyses of the phototropin blue light receptors
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    2002 - 2005
     

Supervision

  • Liu, Weiqi
    Engineering internal and external environment to improve performance in controlled environment agriculture
  • Patitaki, Eirini
    MVLS DTP
  • Walters, Hannah
    High-resolution imaging and spatial dissection of directional plant growth responses to light

Teaching

  • UG Level 2: Guest Lecture, Optogenetics
  • UG Level 3: Phototropin Practical Class for Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology 3A and 3B
  • UG Level 4: Core Skills in Molecular and Cell Biology Option
  • UG Level 4: Central Approaches to Biochemistry Option
  • UG Level 4: Plant Molecular Biology Option
  • UG Level 4: Coordinator, Current Topics in Biotechnology Option

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2016: Elected Fellow (Royal Society of Edinburgh)
  • 2009: Finsen Lecture Award (International Union of Photobiology)
  • 2003: New Investigator of the Year Award (American Society for Photobiology)

Research fellowships

  • 2012 - 2012: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • 2001 - 2011: Royal Society University Research Fellowship

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2015 - 2021: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Panel of Experts
  • 2024: Royal Society of Edinburgh, A3 Sectional Committee

Editorial boards

  • 2012 - 2017: Plant Physiology, Monitoring Editor
  • 2012: New Phytologist, Editor

Professional & learned societies

  • 2016: Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh

Selected international presentations

  • 2024: EPS Summer School (Utrecht, Netherlands)
  • 2024: EMBO Workshop Plant Tropisms (Okazaki, Japan)

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