Dr Stephanie Kerr
Faculty of Science,
School of Biology & Environmental Science
Biography
Stephanie completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Queensland where she investigated the role that the plant hormone strigolactone plays in the regulation of shoot architecture in garden pea (Pisum sativum). She is now employed as a Research Associate in Horticultural Tree Genomics at Queensland University of Technology where she will be functionally characterising genes involved in flowering and precocity in horticultural trees. This project aims to develop tools for improving flowering and precocity in tree crops that will directly benefit the horticultural industry in Australia and worldwide.Personal details
Positions
- Research Associate in Horticultural Tree Genomics
Faculty of Science,
School of Biology & Environmental Science
Research field
Plant Biology, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Horticultural Production
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Publications
- Cao, D., Chabikwa, T., Barbier, F., Dun, E., Fichtner, F., Dong, L., Kerr, S. & Beveridge, C. (2023). Auxin-independent effects of apical dominance induce changes in phytohormones correlated with bud outgrowth. Plant Physiology, 192(2), 1420–1434. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238715
- Paudel, L., Kerr, S., Prentis, P., Tanurdžic, M., Papanicolaou, A., Plett, J. & Cazzonelli, C. (2022). Horticultural innovation by viral-induced gene regulation of carotenogenesis. Horticulture Research, 9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230383
- Barbier, F., Kerr, S., Dudley, C., Cubas, P., Turnbull, C., Fichtner, F., Brewer, P. & Beveridge, C. (2022). Plasticity of bud outgrowth varies at cauline androsette nodes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology, 188(3), 1586–1603. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227629
- Beveridge, C., Rameau, C., Aubert, G., Citerne, S., Bellec, Y., Dun, E., Kerr, S., Patil, S., de Saint Germain, A., Pillot, J., Saffar, J. & Ligerot, Y. (2021). Integration of the SMXL/D53 strigolactone signalling repressors in the model of shoot branching regulation in Pisum sativum. The Plant Journal, 107(6), 1756–1770. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212119
- Barbier, F., Dun, E., Kerr, S., Chabikwa, T. & Beveridge, C. (2019). An update on the signals controlling shoot branching. Trends in Plant Science, 24(3), 220–236.
- Kerr, S., Gaiti, F. & Tanurdzic, M. (2019). De novo plant transcriptome assembly and annotation using illumina RNA-seq reads. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1933, 265–275.
- Kerr, S. & Beveridge, C. (2017). IPA1: a direct target of SL signaling. Cell Research, 27(10), 1191–1192.
- Kerr, S., Gaiti, F., Beveridge, C. & Tanurdzic, M. (2017). De novo transcriptome assembly reveals high transcriptional complexity in Pisum sativum axillary buds and shows rapid changes in expression of diurnally regulated genes. BMC Genomics, 18.
- Brewer, P., Yoneyama, K., Filardo, F., Meyers, E., Scaffidi, A., Frickey, T., Akiyama, K., Seto, Y., Dun, E., Cremer, J., Kerr, S. & other, a. (2016). Lateral branching oxidoreductase acts in the final stages of strigolactone biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(22), 6301–6306.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Stephanie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Future Leaders project grant 'Using nanotechnology as a tool to genetically manipulate macadamia'
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- 2022 Science and Innovation Award sponsored by Hort Innovation
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- 2022 Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia's Award
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- Future Leaders project grant 'Determining the role of epigenetics in alternate bearing in mango'
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- Awarded the Advance Queensland Women's Research Assistance Program (WRAP) funding
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Using a genomics approach to improve breeding time in Australian tree crops
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Peter Prentis - Epigenetic regulation of flowering genes in citrus
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Peter Prentis