Konstantina Stamati, PhD
Research Interests:
I am currently focusing to develop a technique that allows the identification of the determinants of variation in gene expression and to exploit this assay to analyse and identify novel alleles for abiotic stress tolerance in barley. This innovative technological approach provides new opportunities to identify regulatory polymorphisms in plants and connect genotype to phenotype based on changes in gene expression rather than changes in the encoded protein. Such functional polymorphisms are likely to be novel and significant with respect to their impact on phenotype, providing a highly desirable new class of marker for deployment in breeding programs.
Additional interests:
The investigation of the evolutionary biology of plants, particularly the application of molecular markers to address important questions relevant to the conservation and utilisation of plant genetic resources.
Publications:
Stamati K., Blackie S., Brown J. S. W. and Russell J. (2003) A set of polymorphic loci for sub-arctic willow (Salix lanata, S. lapponum and S. herbacea). Molecular Ecology Notes 3: 280-282
Stamati K., Brown J. S. W., Hollinsworth P. and Russell J. (2006) Genetic diversity across natural populations of a rare (S. lanata), a scarce (S. lapponum) and a common (S. herbacea) sub arctic willow (In Prep)
Stamati K., Brown J. S. W., Hollinsworth P. and Russell J. (2006) Patterns of clonal diversity of sub-acrtic willows (Salix lanata, Salix lapponum and Salix herbacea). (In Prep)
K. Stamati, J. S. W. Brown, P. Hollinsworth and J. Russell. (2006). An overview on the use of population genetic data in willow conservation programmes. (In prep)