Drea, Sinéad - University of Leicester - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Genetics Department in the University of Leicester, joining the university in September 2007. This followed postdoctoral research in Yale University, USA, on flower evolution and development and in the John Innes Centre, Norwich, on wheat grain development. I completed my undergraduate degree in Genetics and my PhD in Plant Molecular Genetics at Trinity College in Dublin. As well as continuing research in these areas, my teaching includes undergraduate Developmental Biology, Evolution and Ecology and also work on the Leicester Natural Sciences degree program. Undergraduate Biology and MSc. Molecular Genetics students carry out research projects in my lab. I am very interested in teaching issues in general and in university teaching policies specifically. As a plant scientist I enjoy promoting the field through involvement with the Gatsby Plants Program. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

研究领域

Comparative and evo-devo analyses in plants Evolution and development of fruits and seeds in cereals (monocots) and poppy (basal eudicot)

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GA Toole, G Le Gall, IJ Colquhoun, S Drea, M Opanowicz, Z Bed?, PR. Shewry, ENC Mills (2012) Spectroscopic analysis of diversity of arabinoxylan structures in endosperm cell walls of cereal species in the HEALTHGRAIN diversity collection. Journal of Cereal Science 10.1016/j.jcs.2012.02.016 Hands, P. and Drea, S. (2012) A Comparative view of grain development in Brachypodium distachyon. Journal of Cereal Science 56:2-8. Hands, P., Vosnakis, N., Betts, D., Irish, V., Drea, S. (2011) Alternate transcripts of a floral developmental regulator have both distinct and redundant functions in opium poppy. Annals Botany 107:1557-66 Opanowicz, M., Hands, P. (joint first authors) Betts, D., Parker, M.L., Toole, G., Mills, C., Doonan, J.H., Drea, S. (2011) Endosperm development in Brachypodium distachyon. Journal Experimental Botany 62:735-48. Drea, S. (2011) The End of BSc Botany in the UK. Bioscience Education17:2 Drea, S. (2010) Petals. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Wiley & Sons Ltd.[DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002065.pub2] Drea, S., Derbyshire, P., Koumproglou, R., Dolan, L., Doonan, J.H., Shaw, P. (2009) In situ analysis of gene expression in plants. Methods Mol Biol. 513:229-242 Derbyshire, P., Drea, S., Shaw, P., Doonan, J.H., Dolan, L. (2008) Proximal-distal patterns of gene expression during Arabidopsis root development. Journal Experimental Botany 59:235-245 Drea, S., Hileman, L., de Martino, G., Irish, V.F. (2007) Functional analyses of genetic pathways controlling petal specification in poppy. Development 134: 4157-4166 Drea, S., Lao, N., Wolfe, K.H., Kavanagh, T.A. (2006) Gene duplication, exon gain and neofunctionalization of OEP16 homologues in land plants. Plant Journal 46: 723-735 Drea, S., Leader, D.J., Arnold, B.C., Shaw, P., Dolan, L., Doonan, J.H. (2005) Systematic spatial analysis of gene expression during wheat caryopsis development. Plant Cell 17: 2172-2185 Drea, S., Corsar, J., Crawford, B., Shaw, P., Dolan, L., Doonan, J.H. (2005) A streamlined method for systematic, high resolution in situ analysis of mRNA distribution in plants. Plant Methods1:8 Wegel, E., Pilling, E., Calder, G., Drea, S., Dolan, L., Doonan, J., Shaw, P. (2005) 3-D modelling of wheat endosperm development. New Phytologist 168: 253-262 Henderson, I.R., Liu, F-Q., Drea, S., Simpson, G.G., Dean, C. (2005) An allelic series reveals essential roles for FY in plant development in addition to flowering-time control. Development 132: 3597-3607 Carol, R.J., Tadeka, S., Linstead, P., Durrant, M., Kakesova, H., Derbyshire, P., Drea, S., Zarsky, V., Dolan, L. (2005) A RhoGDP dissociation inhibitor spatially regulates growth in root hair cells. Nature 438:1013-1016 Hileman, L.C., Drea, S., de Martino, G., Litt, A., Irish, V.F. (2005) Virus induced gene silencing is an effective tool to assay gene function in the basal eudicot species Papaver somniferum (opium poppy). Plant Journal 44: 334-341 Drea, S., Mould, R.M., Hibberd, J.M., Gray, J.C., Kavanagh, T.A. (2001) Tissue-specific and developmental-specific expression of an Arabidopsis thaliana gene encoding the lipoamide dehydrogenase component of the plastid pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Plant Molecular Biology 46: 705-715