Dr
Catherine Green
Dr
Catherine Green
I completed my PhD in molecular biology at the University of Sydney in July 1998. My postgraduate research primarily focused on the isolation and characterization of representatives of the mariner family of transposable elements in the genome of the tephritid, Bactrocera tryoni (Queensland fruit fly). A preliminary investigation was also made of the mobility properties of constructs based on mariner elements, following their transient introduction into the embryonic soma of B. tryoni. These studies were undertaken to obtain an initial idea of the feasibility of developing a germline transformation system based on particular mariner elements for use with B. tryoni, and possibly other related tephritids. During 1999 I acted as a research consultant to the Fruit Fly Research Centre, University of Sydney.
As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the bee lab, I recently developed several microsatellite markers and am utilising these to investigate aspects of the reproductive behaviour of the Australian native stingless bee Trigona carbonaria.
Green, C.L., Frank, P., Oldroyd, B.P. (2001). Characterization of microsatellite loci for Trigona carbonaria, a stingless bee endemic to Australia. Molecular Ecology. In press.
Coates, C.J., Turney, C.L., Frommer, M., O'Brochta, D.A., Warren, W.D. and Atkinson, P.W. (1995) The transposable element mariner can excise in non- drosophilid insects. Mol Gen Genet 249: 246-252.
Frommer, M., Meats, A., Sharkey, D., Shearman, D., Sved, J. and Turney, C. (1996) Sequences from eye-colour genes, chorion gene and mariner-like transposable elements in the Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni. In: Fruit Fly Pests: A World Assessment of Their Biology and Management (McPheron, B.A. and Steck, G.J., eds), pp. 209-220. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Florida.
Coates, CJ, Turney, CL, Frommer, M., O'Brochta, D.A. and Atkinson, P.W. (1997) Interplasmid transposition of the mariner transposable element in non-drosophilid insects. Mol Gen Genet 253: 728-733.
Turney, CL and Frommer, M. (in preparation) The genome of the tephritid fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni contains multiple representatives of the mariner family of transposable elements.