Vivien (Viv) is a biologist with a keen interest in tackling complex biological, developmental and physiological processes using a combination of molecular biology and state-of-the-art microscopy. Before working on plants, Viv worked with one of the most widely used animal model for genetic and developmental studies: Drosophila (fruit fly). Viv completed a PhD with Dr. Juergen Knoblich (IMBA, Austria) on the balance between proliferation and cell differentiation in neural stem cell lineages. Keen to apply his broad skill set to a new field, Viv decided to do a short postdoc with Professor Marilyn Ball (ANU), where he studied in vitro and in vivo embolism resorption in angiosperms, using advanced microscopy. Viv then did a postdoc with Professor Dean Price and Prof. Murray Badger (ANU) during which he worked on enhancing photosynthesis by implementing components of the cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating mechanism into higher plants, with the long-term goal of improving crop yield.

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Rolland V, Badger MR and Price GD (2016). Redirecting the Cyanobacterial Bicarbonate Transporters BicA and SbtA to the Chloroplast Envelope: Soluble and Membrane Cargos Need Different Chloroplast Targeting Signals in Plants. Front. Plant Sci. 7:185. Cited 1 time. Long BM, Rae BD, Rolland V, F?rster B and Price GD (2016). Cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating mechanism components: function and prospects for plant metabolic engineering. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 31, 1–8. Cited 1 time. Rolland V, Bergstrom D, Lenne,T et al (2015). Easy Come, Easy Go: Capillary Forces Enable Rapid Refilling of Embolized Primary Xylem Vessels, Plant Physiology, vol. 168, pp. 1636-1647. Cited 5 times. Bowman SK, Rolland V, Betschinger J, Kinsey KA, Emery G, Knoblich JA (2008). The tumor suppressors Brat and Numb regulate transit-amplifying neuroblast lineages in Drosophila. Dev Cell. 2008 Apr;14(4):535-46. Cited 209 times. Lauren?on A, Dubruille R, Efimenko E, Grenier G, Bissett R, Cortier E, Rolland V, Swoboda P, Durand B (2007). Identification of novel regulatory factor X (RFX) target genes by comparative genomics in Drosophila species. Genome Biol. 2007;8(9):R195. Cited 65 times.