Richard Gardiner, Phd
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Richard Gardiner, PhD Assistant Professor of Department of Biology at university of Western Ontario, Canada. PhD Plant Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London Ontario, Canada. Hon BSc Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Research Interest
My research interests centre around fungal cell biology. I have worked on elucidating the structure and function of fungal fimbirae. Analogous to bacterial pili, fimbriae are long flexuous fibrils 7 nm in diameter and up to 20 µm in length. Originally described on the anther smut Microbotryum violaceum, they have been shown to be present on a wide variety of fungi. In addition I have added my expertise to various other projects in the life and material sciences.
Publications
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Krol M, Ivanov AG, Savitch L, Szyszka B, Selstam E, Hurry V, Gardiner R, Oquist G, Huner NP. Effect of cold acclimation and the pgp1 mutation on the expression of GLK1 and GLK2 and chloroplast development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Acta Biologica Cracoviensia. Series Botanica. Supplement. 2011;1(53).
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Ni R, Zheng D, Xiong S, Hill DJ, Sun T, Gardiner RB, Fan GC, Lu Y, Abel ED, Greer PA, Peng T. Mitochondrial calpain-1 disrupts ATP synthase and induces superoxide generation in type 1 diabetic hearts: a novel mechanism contributing to diabetic cardiomyopathy. Diabetes. 2016 Jan 1;65(1):255-68.
