Staff profile

Dr Alan Marshall

Emeritus Scholar, Previously Reader and Associate Prtofessor

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences
Department of Zoology

Biological Sciences 2, Room 361, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc(Hons),PhD,DSc,DIC,FRMS

Membership of professional associations

Royal Microscopical Society, Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society, Australian Coral Reef Society

Area of study

Physiology
Zoology

Brief profile

After graduating in Zoology at the University of Leeds (UK) in 1959 he completed a DIC at Imperial College, University of London in 1960. This was followed by an appointment as Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Hong Kong. Whilst in this appointment he undertook his PhD research in Insect Physiology as a Postgraduate British Commonwealth Scholar at CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra from 1962 – 1963 and was awarded a PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 1965. He was appointed Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in 1964 and seconded to the University of Hull, UK, as Lecturer in 1967.

In 1969 he was appointed Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University and subsequently Reader and Associate Professor in 1973. The University of Leeds awarded him a DSc in 1979 for research in Insect Physiology and Ultrastructure. From 1991 to 1994 he was Head of the Department of Zoology. In addition to establishing a well equipped laboratory for Analytical Electron Microscopy in the Department of Zoology, he was instrumental in obtaining an ARC Infrastructure and Equipment Grant in 1996 for $900,000 to set up an advanced electron microscopy facility at La Trobe University jointly with the University of Melbourne.

In 1998 he was Visiting Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University and from 1999 to 2001 he was Visiting Professor in Biology, Shanghai Medical University. Currently he is an Emeritus Scholar at La Trobe University and an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratories.

Research interests:

  • Electron immunocytochemistry and x-ray microanalysis
  • Physiology of coral reef organisms
  • Insect Ultrastructure and Physiology, particularly relating to ion and water regulation
  • Development of techniques and methods of Analytical Electron Microscopy for application to biological research

Recent publications

 

Fernando, Denise; Woodrow, Ian; Baker, Alan J.M., Marshall, Alan (2012) Plant homeostasis of foliar manganese sinks: specific variation in hyperaccumulators. Planta in press.

Marshall, A.T. Goodyear, M.J. Crewther, S. (2012) Sequential quantitative x-ray elemental   imaging of frozen-hydrated and freeze-dried biological bulk samples in the SEM.  Journal of Microscopy  245: 17 – 25. 

Marshall, A.T. and Clode, P.L. (2009) X-ray microanalysis of Rb+ entry into  cricket Malpighian tubule cells via putative K+ channels.  Journal of Experimental  Biology  212: 2977 – 2982.

Marshall, O.J., Marshall, A.T., Choo, K.H.A.  (2008) Three dimensional localization of CENP-A suggests a complex higher order structure of centromeric chromatin. Journal of Cell Biology 183 (7): 1193 – 1202.

Barbeta, B.L., Marshall, A.T., Gillon, A.D., Craik, D.J., and Anderson, M.A. (2008)  Plant cyclotides disrupt epithelial cells in the midgut of lepdopteran larvae. PNAS 105: 1221–1225.

Fernando, D.R., Marshall, A.T., Gouget, B., Carriere, M., Collins, R.N., Woodrow, I.E. and Baker A.J.  (2008) Novel pattern of foliar metal distribution in a manganese hyperaccumulator. Functional Plant Biology 35: 193–200.

Fernando, D.R., Woodrow, I.E., Jaffre, T., Dumontet, V., Marshall, A.T. and Baker, A.J.M.  (2008)  Foliar manganese accumulation by Maytenus fournieri (Celastraceae) in its native New Caledonian habitats: population variation and localisation by x-ray microanalysis.  New Phytologist 177: 178–185.

Marshall, A.T., Clode, P.L., Russell, R., Prince, K. and Stern, R. (2007) Electron and ion microprobe analysis of calcium distribution and transport in coral tissues. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 2453–2463.

Clode. P.L., Stern, R.A. and Marshall, A.T. (2007) Subcellular imaging of isotopically labeled carbon compounds in a biological sample by ion microprobe (NanoSIMS). Microscopy Research and Technique. 70: 220-229.

Asemaneh, T., Ghaderian, S.M., Crawford, S.A., Marshall, A.T. and Baker, A.J.M. (2006) Cellular and subcellular compartmentation of Ni in the Eurasian serpentine plants Alyssum bracteatum, Alyssum murale (Brasssicaceae) and Cleome heratensis  (Capparaceae). Planta 225: 193–202.

Clode, P.L. and Marshall, A.T. (2004) Calcium localisation by x-ray microanalysis and fluorescence microscopy in larvae of zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate coral.  Tissue and Cell. 36: 379–390.

Marshall, A.T. and Clode, P.L. (2004) Effect of calcium-free and low calcium artificial seawater on polyps of a scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis. Coral Reefs  23: 277-280.

 Marshall, A.T. and Clode, P.L. (2004) Calcification rate and effect of temperature in a zooxanthellate and an azooxanthellate scleractinian reef coral. Coral Reefs  23: 218-224.

Bidwell, S.D., Crawford, S.A., Woodrow, I.E., Sommer-Knudsen, J. and Marshall, A.T.  (2004)  Sub-cellular localisation of Ni in the hyperaccumulator, Hybanthus floribundus.  Plant Cell and Environment. 27: 705 – 716.

Marshall, A.T. and Clode, P.L. (2003) Light regulated Ca2+ uptake and O2 secretion  at the surface of a scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, A 136: 417–426.

Clode, P.L. and Marshall, A.T. (2003) Skeletal microstructure of Galaxea    fascicularis: a high resolution SEM study.  Biological Bulletin, 204: 146-154.

Clode, P.L. and Marshall, A.T. (2003) Variability in the surface microstructure of the coral Galaxea fascicularis: effects of an aquarium environment and preparatory techniques. Biological Bulletin, 204: 138 – 145.

Clode, P.L. and Marshall, A.T. (2003) Calcium associated with a fibrillar organic matrix in the scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis. Protoplasma , 220: 152-161.

Clode, P.L. and Marshall, A.T. (2002) Low temperature x-ray microanalysis of calcium in a scleractinian coral: evidence of active transport mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 3543-3552.

Marshall, A.T. and Clode, P.L. (2002) Effect of increased calcium concentration in sea water on calcification and photosynthesis in the scleractinian coral Galaxea  fascicularis.  Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 2107-2113.

Clode, P.L. and Marshall, A.T. (2002) Kalisomes in corals: a novel KCl concentrating organelle? Tissue and Cell 34: 199-209.

Clode, P.L. and Marshall, A.T. (2002) Low temperature FESEM of the calcifying  interface of a scleractinian coral. Tissue and Cell  34: 187-198.

Wharton, D.A. and Marshall, A.T. (2002) Changes in surface features during desiccation of the anhydrobiotic plant parasitic nematode Ditylenchus dipsaci Tissue and Cell   34: 81-87.

Howe, S.A. and Marshall, A.T. (2002) Temperature effects on calcification rate and skeletal deposition in the temperate coral Plesiastrea versipora  (Lamark). Journal of   Marine Biology and Ecology 275: 63-81.

Marshall, A.T. (2002) The occurrence, distribution and localisation of metals in Cnidarians. Microscopy, Research and Techniques  56: 341-357.

Research projects

  • X-ray microanalysis and electron immunocytochemistry
  • Physiology of coral reef organisms
  • Insect Ultrastructure and Physiology, particularly relating to ion and water regulation
  • Development of techniques and methods of Analytical Electron Microscopy for application to biological research
  • X-ray microanalystical investigation of the mechanisms of myopia
  • X-ray microanalytical investigation of metal accumulation in plants (hyperaccumulators)
  • X-ray microanalytical investigation of salt tolerance in grape vines