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Professor Tony Kavanagh
SHORT CV
BSc (Botany), 1st Class Honours, University College Dublin, 1979
PhD in Plant Molecular Biology, University College Dublin, 1984
Professor of Molecular Genetics (2002- )
Head of Department, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, TCD (2003-2006)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
(1) Understanding the role of the DREB (Drought Response Element Binding) transcription factor family in adaptations to
drought (and drought tolerance) in plants. (2) Plant biotechnology, with a focus on molecular pharming i.e. engineering
plants for high-level expression of recombinant therapeutic proteins (e.g. antigens and antibodies); and metabolite
pathway engineering e.g. the betalain pathway (3) Development of inducible expression systems for transgene
expression in higher plant chloroplasts (transplastomic plants).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Puthiyaveetil S, Kavanagh TA, Cain P, Sullivan JA, Newell CA, Gray JC, Robinson C, van der Giezen M, Rogers MB and
Allen JF (2008) The ancestral symbiont sensor kinase CSK links photosynthesis with gene expression in chloroplasts.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:10061-10066.
Lao NT, Maloney AP, Atkins JF and Kavanagh TA (2009) Versatile dual reporter gene systems for investigating stop codon
readthrough in plants. PLoS One 9;4(10):e7354.
Teh YH, Kavanagh TA (2010) High-level expression of Camelid nanobodies in Nicotiana benthamiana. Transgenic
Research 19:575-86.
Rae L, Lao NT, Kavanagh TA (2011) Regulation of multiple aquaporin genes in Arabidopsis by a pair of recently
duplicated DREB transcription factors. Planta 234:429-444.
Newell CA, Natesan SK, Sullivan JA, Jouhet J, Kavanagh TA, Gray JC (2012) Exclusion of plastid nucleoids and ribosomes
from stromules in tobacco and Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal 69:399-410.
ADDRESS:
Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
E-mail: [email protected]
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