Staff profile

Dr Michael Emmerling

Lecturer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences
Department of Botany
AgriBio, the Centre for AgriBioscience

Biological Sciences 1, Room 410, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

Dr. rer. nat. (Tübingen), Dipl. Biol. (Tübingen)

Area of study

Botany

Brief Profile

Jobs

  • PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from Universität Tübingen, Botanik, Germany, working on plant cell wall analysis using carrot suspension cultures
  • Post-doctoral fellow at University of Melbourne, PCBRC, working on hydroxyproline-rich cell wall proteins
  • Post-doctoral fellow at La Trobe University, Agriculture, cloning midgut aminopeptidases from cotton bollworm and blowfly
  • Senior Research Scientist with Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Bundoora, working on modification of forage and cereal crops to improve tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresse, and improve yield
  • Technical Service Specialist/Manager and Field Application Specialist with QIAGEN
  • Portfolio Manager Biosciences with Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Bundoora
  • Lecturer at La Trobe University, Botany

Awards

  • Faculty Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, 2012
  • La Trobe University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, 2012
  • Inaugural La Trobe Student Union Teaching Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Student Learning Experience, 2012

Teaching Units

  • BIO1OF Organisation and Function of Cells and Organisms (Subject Coordinator)
  • BIO1PS Plant Science (Subject Coordinator)
  • BOT2ILP Inner Life of Plants (Subject Coordinator)
  • BOT3PB Plant Biotechnology (Subject Coordinator)

Older Publications

Ding Y.-L., Aldao-Humble, G., Ludlow, E., Drayton, M., Lin, Y.-H., Nagel, J., Dupal, M., Zhao, G.-Q., Pallaghy, C., Kalla, R., Emmerling, M., Spangenberg, G. (2003) Efficient plant regeneration and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in Medicago and Trifolium species. Plant Science 165, 1419-1427.

Emmerling, M., Chandler, D.S., Sandeman, R.M. (2001) Molecular cloning of cDNAs encoding aminopeptidases from the midgut of Helicoverpa punctigera, the Australian native budworm. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 81, 899-907.

Emmerling, M., Seitz. H.U. (1990) Influence of a specific xyloglucan-nonasaccharide derived from cell walls of suspension-cultured cells of Daucus carota L. on regenerating protoplasts. Planta 182, 174-180.

Glässgen, W.E., Hofmann, R., Emmerling, M., Neumann, G.D., Seitz, H.U. (1992) Structure elucidation of saccharides in anthocyanins and flavonoles by means of methylation analysis and gas chromatography. J. Chromatogr. 598, 81-87.

Lin, Y.-H., Ludlow, E., Kalla, R., Pallaghy, C., Emmerling, M., Spangenberg, G. (2003) Organ-specific, developmentally-regulated and abiotic stress-induced activities of four Arabidopsis thaliana promoters in transgenic white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Plant Science 165, 1437-1444.

Mock, H.-P., Emmerling, M., Seitz, H.U. (1990) Cell wall synthesis in carrot cells: Comparison of suspension-cultured cells and regenerating protoplasts. Physiol. Plant. 79, 347-353.

Petrovska, N., Wu, X., Donato, R., Wang, Z., Ong, E-K., Jones, E., Forster, J., Emmerling, M., Sidoli, A., O’Heir, R., and Spangenberg G. (2004) Transgenic ryegrasses (Lolium spp.) with down-regulation of main pollen allergens. Molecular Breeding 14, 489-501.

Sawbridge, T., Ong, E.-K., Binnion, C., Emmerling, M., McInness, R., Meath, K., Nguyen, N., Nunan, K., O’Neill, M., O’Toole, F., Rhodes, C., Simmonds, J., Tian, P., Wearne, K., Webster, T., Winkworth, A., Spangenberg, G. (2003) Generation and analysis of expressed sequence tags in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). Plant Science 165, 1089-1100.

Sawbridge, T., Ong, E.-K., Binnion, C., Emmerling, M., Meath, K., Nunan, K., O’Neill, M., O’Toole, F., Simmonds, J., Wearne, K., Winkworth, A., Spangenberg, G. (2003) Generation and analysis of expressed sequence tags in white clover (Trifolium perenne L.). Plant Science 165, 1077-1087.