PERSSON, Staffan

　　Title: Professor

　　Address: University of Melbourne, School of Biosciences, Parkville VIC 3010, Melbourne, Australia

　　Tel: +61390353637

　　Email: Staffan.persson@unimelb.edu.au

　　Education Background:

　　2003  Ph.D., NCSU , US/Lund University, SWE

　　Working Experiences:

　　2015-present  Professor in Plant Cell Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

　　2008-2014  Max-Planck Research Group Leader at MPI-MP, Potsdam, Germany

　　2013  ChangJiang Scholar, visiting Professor and Foreign expert, HZAU, China

　　2004-2007  Post Doctoral fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford, CA, USA

　　2003  PhD, Plant Physiology/Plant Biochemistry, North Carolina State University (NCSU)/ Lund University, SWE

　　Research Interests:

　　My group is interested in the field of plant cell wall biology, and we have addressed several longstanding questions in this area, including the use of co-expression to infer functionally related genes, the principles behind how cellulose synthesis is guided by the cytoskeleton, the mechanism behind how plants are internalizing proteins and compounds, and recently the mechanism for how plants can maintain their cellulose producing capacity during salt stress.

　　Professional Activities:

　　Peer review of numerous scientific journals and governmental funding agencies.