| Position in department | Head of School |
| Staff position | Professor in Plant Biology |
| E-mail | rainc (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Telephone | 3310 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Room | 4.34 |
| Biography | Posts & Training
October 1985 Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Plant Science Research, Cambridge.
August 1988 Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of Essex
October 1995 Senior Lecturer, Biological Sciences, University of Essex
October 2002 Reader, Biological Sciences, University of Essex
October 2004 Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Essex
February - April 2000 Visiting Fellow, RSBS, ANU, Canberra
- Editor in Chief of the Journal of Experimental Botany http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/
- Chair of SEB Plants Section Committee
|
| Current research | Group Members
Postdoctoral Researchers: Steven Driever, Andrew Simkin
PhD Students Patricia Lopez-Calcagno, Stuart Fisk, Bandar Aljuaid
External Research Collaborations
Professor Matin Parry Rothamsted Research, UK |
| Research interests | My main research interest is in primary carbon metabolism which started with the isolation and characterisation of the genes encoding the enzymes of the Calvin cycle. Since 1995 a major focus in my laboratory has been to investigate the relative importance of individual enzymes in the Calvin cycle in controlling the rate of carbon fixation and plant growth. We are now extending this work to study the regulation of carbon metabolism by investigating the stromal proteins that regulate the Calvin cycle enzymes. I am also interested in how growth of plant in elevated CO2 affects photosynthetic capacity in field conditions
- Transgenic manipulation of chloroplast carbon metabolism - identification of factors limiting photosynthesis and yield
- Proteomic approaches to redox mediated protein-protein interactions in the regulation of metabolism
- The role of plant biotechnology in the design of plants for biofuel production
- Molecular genetics of acclimatory processes of marine organisms
|
| Publications | Link to publications for Christine A. Raines |
| Additional information |
Current Funding
BBSRC Manipulation of photosynthetic carbon metabolism in wheat to improve yield 2012-2015
BBSRC Metabolic engineering to enhance photosynthesis based on empirical data and in silico modeling 2012-2015
|