Susanne von Caemmerer
Susanne von Caemmerer (born June 25, 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German-Australian biologist (plant physiology) and mathematician .
Life
Susanne von Caemmerer is the daughter of the German lawyer Ernst von Caemmerer . She studied mathematics, botany and philosophy at the Australian National University (ANU) with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1976 and received her doctorate there in 1981 on mathematical modeling of photosynthesis . As a post-doctoral student , she was at the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC and at Stanford University . From 1983 she was Research Fellow and from 1994 Fellow at the ANU and in 2005 Professor of Molecular Plant Physiology.
She developed simple quantitative models of carbon dioxide fixation in the leaves of plants, which are also used to calculate global carbon dioxide fixation.
In addition, she is researching photosynthesis and its control (especially carbon uptake and carbon dioxide diffusion in leaves) in C3 plants and C4 plants using, for example, antisense technology, in which the genes of certain enzymes that are important for photosynthesis are selectively blocked. She also researches water loss in leaves (movement of the stomata ).
She is a member of the C4 Rice Consortium, which aims to find the genes that are important for optimal photosynthesis and food production in transgenic rice plants.
She has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2006 and of the Australian Academy of Sciences that same year . In 2017 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 2014 she received the Charles F. Kettering Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists.
She is Associate Editor of Plant Physiology and on the editorial board of Plant, Cell and Environment .
Fonts (selection)
- with Graham D. Farquhar, Joseph A. Berry: A biochemical model of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation in leaves of C3 species, Planta, Volume 149, 1980, pp. 78-90, PMID 24306196
- with GD Farquhar: Some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves, Planta, Volume 153, 1981, pp. 376-387
- with JR Evans: Determination of the average partial pressure of CO2 in chloroplasts from leaves of several C3 plants, Austral. J. Plant Physiol., Vol. 18, 1991, pp. 287-305
- with JR Evans, GS Hudson, TJ Andrews: The kinetics of ribulose-1,5, bisphosphate carboxylase / oxygenase in vivo inferred from measurements of photosynthesis in leaves of transgenic tobacco, Planta, Volume 195, 1994, pp. 88-97
- with Graham D. Farquhar, Joseph A. Berry: Models of Photosynthesis, Plant Physiology, Volume 125, 2001, pp. 42-45, PMID 11154292
- with V. Quinn, GD Price, RT Furbank, M. Ludwig: Carbonic anhydrase and C4 photosynthesis: A transgenic analysis, Plant Cell and Environment, Volume 27, 2004, pp. 697-703
- with T. Furumoto, K. Izui, V. Quinn, RT Furbank: Phosphorylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase is not essential for high photosynthetic rates in the C4 species Flaveria bidentis, Plant Physiology, Volume 141, 2007, pp. 1936-1945.
- with I. Baroli, DG Price, MR Badger: The contribution of photosynthesis to the red light response of stomatal conductance. Plant Physiology, Vol. 146, 2007, pp. 737-743
- with W. Yamori: Effect of Rubisco activase deficiency on the temperature response of CO2 assimilation rate and Rubisco activation state: Insights from transgenic tobacco with reduced amounts of Rubisco activase, Plant Physiology, Volume 151, 2009, pp. 2073-2082
- with RT Furbank, J. Sheehy, G. Edwards: C4 rice: a challenge for plant phenomics, Functional Plant Biology, Volume 36, 2009, pp. 845-856
- with A. Weber: Plastid transport and metabolism of C3 and C4 plants - comparative analysis and possible biotechnological exploitation, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Volume 13, 2010, pp. 1-9
- with JR Evans: Enhancing C3 photosynthesis, Plant Physiology, Volume 154, 2010, pp. 589-592.
- with WP Quick, RT Furbank: The Development of C4 Rice: Current Progress and Future Challenges, Science, Volume 336, 2012, pp. 1671–1672
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Susanne von Caemmerer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 30, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caemmerer, Susanne von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Australian biologist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |