Associate Professor Colin Jenkins

Full Academic Status

College of Science and Engineering

+61 8 82012030

colin.jenkins@flinders.edu.au

Health Sciences (305)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Following undergraduate and doctoral studies in the UK, A/Prof Jenkins moved to Australia and carried out Post-doctoral studies under the guidance of Dr MD Hatch in CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, and subsequently was employed in CSIRO Plant Industry in various projects until 2010 as Principal Resarch Scientist, before relocating to Flinders University in 2011, as an Associate Researcher with the Plant Science group in Biological Sciences

Qualifications

Ph.D. 1979, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Supervisory interests

Genetically modified plants

Plant metabolism and stress

Regulation of organic acid metabolism in plants

Respiration in plant growth

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Associate supervisor: Plant sucrose transport, metabolism, and nutrition (1), Plant oxidative stress and mitochondria (4)

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