Ewan Plant

Dept. Cell Biol. & Mol. Genet.                                                             ewan@wam.umd.edu

University of Maryland                                                                               (301) 484-1758

College Park, MD 20842                                                                              Nationality:  New Zealand

 

Postdoctoral Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow for Jonathan Dinman studying programmed ribosomal frameshifting

2002-present: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park.

2000, Sept – Dec 2001: Dept. Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

 

Professional Employment

Research Assistant for Dr. M. Maw (hereditary deafness)

2000, May – Aug: Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Research Assistant for Professors J. Kalmakoff and D. Jones (Iridoviruses of grass grubs & Clostridium species identification)

1993, Oct  – May 1994: Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

 

Education

PhD in Biochemistry supervised by Dr. R. Poulter (retrotransposons in Candida albicans) 2000: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Diploma for Graduates in Personnel Management

1995: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

MSc & BSc in Biochemistry

1995 &1992: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

 

Publications

Plant, E. P., Becher, D. and R. T. M. Poulter. 1998.  The  SPL1 tRNA Splicing Gene of Candida maltosa and Candida albicans.  Yeast 14: 287-295.

Plant, E. P., Goodwin, T. G. D., and R. T. M. Poulter. 2000.  Tca5, a Ty5-Like Retrotransposon from Candida albicans.  Yeast 16: 1509 – 1518.

Dinman, J.D., Richter, S., Plant, E.P., Taylor, R. Hammell, A.B. and Rana, T.M.  2002. The frameshift signal of HIV-1 involves a potential intramolecular triplex RNA structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 5331-5336.

 

Posters

“A Shift Towards Killing the Messenger” Translational Control Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2002.

“Tca5, a Ty5-Like Retrotransposon from Candida albicans” 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution and 46th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Australia, Brisbane, Australia, 1999.

“Tca5, a Ty5-Like Retrotransposon from Candida albicans” The 8th Annual Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting, Queenstown, NZ, 1998.