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Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
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 is functionally characterising genes involved in flowering and precocity in horticultural trees. Her research aims to develop knowledge and tools for improving flowering and precocity in tree crops that will directly benefit the horticultural industry in Australia and worldwide.
Projects (Chief investigator)
Projects
Additional information
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- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2023
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- Future Leaders project grant 'Using nanotechnology as a tool to genetically manipulate macadamia'
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- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2022
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- 2022 Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia's Award
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- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2022
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- 2022 Science and Innovation Award sponsored by Hort Innovation
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2022
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- Winner of the QUT Faculty of Science Executive Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Awards for ECR/MCR Researcher of the Year 2022
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- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2020
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- Future Leaders project grant 'Determining the role of epigenetics in alternate bearing in mango'
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- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2020
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- Awarded the Advance Queensland Women's Research Assistance Program (WRAP) funding
- Kerr, S., Shehnaz, S., Paudel, L., Manivannan, M., Shaw, L., Johnson, A., Velasquez, J., Tanurdžic, M., Cazzonelli, C., Varkonyi-Gasic, E. & Prentis, P. (2024). Advancing tree genomics to future proof next generation orchard production. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/246606
- 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
- Fichtner, F., Barbier, F., Kerr, S., Dudley, C., Cubas, P., Turnbull, C., 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
- Kerr, S., Patil, S., de Saint Germain, A., Pillot, J., Saffar, J., Ligerot, Y., Aubert, G., Citerne, S., Bellec, Y., Dun, E., Beveridge, C. & Rameau, C. (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.
- Investigating molecular mechanisms of juvenility and flowering to accelerate breeding of commercial citrus species
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Brett Williams, Dr Sudipta Das Bhowmik - Exploring the genetics of precocious flowering for breeding improved Australian mango cultivars
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Peter Prentis, Dr Jiyuan An - Genetic investigations of the defence responses of mango cultivars to safeguard the Australian mango industry
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Peter Prentis, Dr Upendra Shekhawat, Associate Professor Brett Williams, Dr Anthony James - Using a genomics approach to improve breeding time in Australian tree crops
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Peter Prentis