RACHEL DENT (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Email: racheld at uclink4.berkeley.edu

Degrees:

• B.Sc. (1991) (Hons) Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
  
• M.Sc. (1993) University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
  
• Ph.D. (1997) Cambridge University, England

Research interests: Functional genomics of photosynthesis and photoprotection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Selected Publications:

• Afithile MM, Dent RM, Cowan AK (1993) Changes in carotenoid concentration in senescing leaves of Hordeum vulgare L. cv Dyan. J Plant Physiol 142: 43-49
  
• Dent RM, Cowan AK (1994) Abscisic acid-induced senescence in light- and dark-incubated detached leaves of barley. South African Journal of Botany 60: 340-344
  
• Dent RM, Han M, Niyogi KK (2001) Functional genomics of plant photosynthesis in the fast lane using Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Trends in Plant Science 6: 364-371.