Clive Ronson
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Clive is a microbial geneticist with primary research interests in how microbes and plants recognise each other and develop a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, and in microbial evolution by horizontal gene transfer and adaptive mutation. He is one of two international partners of the Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling based in Denmark and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Research Interest
Plant-microbe interactions, horizontal gene transfer, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, bacterial genetics and genomics
Publications
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Saeki K. and Ronson CW. (2014) Genome Sequence and Gene Functions in Mesorhizobium loti and Relatives. pp. 41 – 58 In The Lotus japonicus Genome. Tabata, S., and Stougaard, J. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-662-44269-2
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Ramsay, JP and Ronson, CW. (2015) Genetic Regulation of Symbiosis Island Transfer in Mesorhizobium loti. Chapter 21 in ‘Biological Nitrogen Fixation’ edited by F. J. de Bruijn. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-1-118-63704-3
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Ramsay, JP, Tester, LG, Major, AS., Sullivan, JT, Edgar, CD, Kleffmann, T., Patterson-House, JR, Hall, DA, Tate, WP, Hynes, MF, and Ronson, CW (2015). Ribosomal frameshifting and dual-target antiactivation restrict quorum-sensing-activated transfer of a mobile genetic element. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112: 4104-4109
