Dr Tansy Chia

Tansy has a background in metabolic biology, molecular biology and biochemistry. She completed her PhD at the John Innes Centre, studying the effect of a coriander fatty acid desaturase gene on lipid content in developing embryos of transgenic rapeseed. She continued to progress in the field of metabolic biology through her work on a novel cytosolic glucosyltransferase critical to starch degradation and maltose metabolism in Arabidopsis.

She joined Niab in 2017 to work on the BBSRC-funded Designing Future Wheat programme with a focus on grain quality aspects (B-granule initiation, large embryo and high amylose phenotype).

From 2024, Tansy has been working in James Cockram's team in Niab's Department of Plant Genetics to deliver R&D activities across a range of funded projects, including activities in the Department of Pathology. This encompasses molecular genetics, genotyping (in particular, marker development) and phenotyping. She also occasionally provide training/supervision of new members of staff in lab and glasshouse based research techniques and is responsible for lab-maintenance.

Full publication list on OrcID.