Elizabeth Heather Jakobsen Neilson
Assistant Professor
Plant Ecophysiology Research Group
The Plant Ecophysiology Research Group aims to understand the molecular regulation, integration and evolution of plant general and specialized pathways, providing fundamental knowledge for application to environmental, agricultural and biotechnological platforms. This is achieved by utilizing a full “omics” toolbox, combing phenomics, metabolomics, proteomics and transcriptomics.
Scientific Highlights
- Evolution, structure, function and application of plant FMOs, with a focus on environmental stress resistance
- Role and regulation of specialized metabolism in Eucalyptus in response to biotic and abiotic stress using an integrated “omics” approach
- Identification and characterization of pathway partners involved in plant general and specialized metabolism, with a focus on cytochromes P450 and flavin containing monooxygenases (FMOs)
- Utilization of plant phenomics to visualize and improve drought tolerance and recovery in sorghum by redirection of nitrogen between specialized and general metabolism
- Evolution of general and specialized metabolite pathways in ferns
- Untargeted metabolomic approach to understand the detoxification of specialized metabolites by marsupials
Current Funding
2022 – 2026 DFF Sapere Aude (FTP) “SuperYUCCA: YUCCA multifunctionality for improved crop resistance”
2022 – 2024 DFF Project 1 (FNU; Inge Lehmann) “YUCCApro: Prevalence and Origin of YUCCA multifunctionality”
2019 - 2024 Novo Nordisk Emerging Investigator "liftOFF! Optimizing plant FMOs for Future production"
Previous Funding
2016 - 2021 VILLUM Young Investigator “How does climate change impact plants and their herbivores?”
2016 - 2021 Danish Council for Independent Research “Improved drought tolerance and recovery via redirection of nitrogen between specialized and general metabolism"
2014-2015 Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Grant "Plant adaptation to a changing environment"
2013-2019 VILLUM Research Center for Plant Plasticity (co-PI; Project Manager for two themes)
2006-2008 Holsworth Wildlife Research Fund
Current Group Members
Cecilie Cetti Hansen, Postdoc
Joachim Møller Christensen, PhD
Ingvild Ryde, PhD (University of Iceland)
Delphine Pottier, Research Assistant
Augustin Baussay, ERASMUS Visiting MSc
Former Group Members
Gunbileg Disan, Postdoc
Mette Sørensen, PhD
Sara Thodberg, PhD
Bruna Marques dos Santos, PhD
Amalie Bendtsen, MSc/Research Assistant
Xinxing Xia, PhD
Juliane Zibrandtsen, MSc
Thiago Veiga, Visiting research from Fedral University of Sao Paulo
Anne Jeppesen, MSc
Collaborating Partners
Prof Liz Gillam, University of Queensland
Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction of plant FMOs
Prof Ian Godwin, University of Queensland
Cereal biotechnology and gene editing
Prof Pablo Sobrado, Virginia Tech
FMO structure and function
Assoc. Prof Mattias Thelander, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
YUCCA functionality in moss
Prof Riikka Rinnan, University of Copenhagen
VOC emission and specialized metabolism in trees
Prof Ros Gleadow, Monash University
Regulation of growth and chemical defense in response to abiotic stress in Sorghum
Prof Philip Hugenholtz, University of Queensland
Specialized metabolite detoxification by marsupials: animal, microbe or both?
Dr Ben Moore & Dr Paul Rymer, University of Western Sydney
How does climate change impact wildlife systems? Eucalyptus and the koala
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Utilization of a high-throughput shoot imaging system to examine the dynamic phenotypic responses of a C4 cereal crop plant to nitrogen and water deficiency over time
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Glutathione transferases catalyze recycling of auto-toxic cyanogenic glucosides in sorghum
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Oximes: unrecognized chameleons in general and specialized plant metabolism
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