David Day
Professor
Plant Biology
Flinders University
Australia
Biography
I was awarded my PhD from Adelaide University and undertook postdoctoral studies in the United States before joining CSIRO as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow. I subsequently moved to ANU where eventually I became Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1995. In 1999, I took up the Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Western Australia and later moved to the University of Sydney where I was Executive Dean of the Faculties of Science. I returned to Adelaide at the end of 2009 to take up the role of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Flinders University. I retired from management in 2015 and now have a fractional appointment in the School of Biological Sciences at Flinders University and in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney
Research Interest
My research focuses on carbon and nitrogen fixation in plants, with an emphasis on respiration and its involvement in plant responses to environmenal stresses, and symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes, where I study how soil bacteria, rhizobia, interact with the plant, focusing on nutrient transport across symbiotic membranes. Soybean, chickpea, rice and barley are the main crop plants under investigation.
Publications
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Brear, E.M., Day, D.A. and Smith, P.M.C. (2013). Iron: an essential micronutrient for the legume-rhizobium symbiosis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 4 pp. 359.
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Clarke, V., Loughlin, P.C., Day, D.A. and Smith, P.M.C. (2014). Transport processes of the legume symbiosome membrane. Frontiers in Plant Science, 5(December) pp. Article: 699.
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Cheah, M.H., Millar, A.H., Myers, R.C., Day, D.A., Roth, J., Hillier, W., et al. (2014). Online Oxygen Kinetic Isotope Effects Using Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry Can Differentiate between Oxidases for Mechanistic Studies and Calculation of Their Contributions to Oxygen Consumption in Whole Tissues. Analytical Chemistry, 86(10) pp. 5171-5178.
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Chiasson, D.M., Loughlin, P.C., Mazurkiewicz, D., mohammadidehcheshmeh, M., Fedorova, E.E., Okamoto, M., et al. (2014). Soybean SAT1 (Symbiotic Ammonium Transporter 1) encodes a bHLH transcription factor involved in nodule growth and NH4 + transport. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(13) pp. 4814-4819.
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Clarke, V.C., Loughlin, P.C., Gavrin, A., Chen, C., Brear, E.M., Day, D.A., et al. (2015). Proteomic analysis of the soybean symbiosome identifies new symbiotic proteins. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 14(5) pp. 1301-1322
