2010- present : Lecturer 2004 - 2010: Senior Research Officer, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK 2002 - 2004: Research Scientist, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK 1998 - 2002: PhD in plant molecular biology, Department of Disease & Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK 1992 - 1998: Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Plant adaptations to environmental stress

Natural variation of water productivity Transcriptional networks of drought stress responses

Post translational protein modifications (PTMs)

Role of PTMs in stress signalling pathways Application of PTMs as biomarkers during stress

Bechtold U., Lawson T., Meyer R.C., Mejia-Carranza J., Brown I.R., Altmann T., Ton J. and Mullineaux P.M. (2010) Constitutive salicylic acid defences do not compromise seed yield, drought tolerance and water productivity in the Arabidopsis accession C24. Plant Cell & Environment, 33:1959- 1973 Waring J., Klennell M., Bechtold U., Underwood G. and Baker N. (2010) Light-induced responses of oxygen photoreduction, reactive oxygen species production and scavenging in two diatom species. Journal of Phycology, 46: 1206-1217 Bechtold U., Rabbani N., Mullineaux P.M. and Thornalley P.J. (2009) Quantitative measurement of specific biomarkers for protein oxidation, nitration and glycation in Arabidopsis leaves. The Plant Journal, 59: 661-671 Bechtold U., Richard O., Zambon A., Gapper C., Geisler M., Pogson B., SchöfflF., KarpinskiS. and MullineauxP.M. (2008) Impact of chloroplastic- and extracellular-sourced ROS on high light responsive gene expression in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany 59: 121-133 Flors C., Fryer M.J., Waring J., Reeder B., Bechtold U., Mullineaux P.M., Nonell S., Wilson M.T. and Baker N.R. (2006) Imaging the production of singlet oxygen in vivo using a new fluorescent sensor, Singlet Oxygen Sensor Green® Journal of Experimental Botany 57: 1725-1734 Bechtold U., Karpinski S. and Mullineaux P. (2005) The influence of the light environment and photosynthesis on oxidative signalling responses in plant-biotrophic pathogen interactions. Plant Cell & Environment 28: 1046-1055 Ball L., Accotto G-P., Bechtold U., Creissen G., Funck D., Jimenez A., Kular B., Leyland N., Meija-Carranza J., Reynolds H., Karpinski S., and Mullineaux P.M (2004) Evidence for a Direct Link between Glutathione Biosynthesis and Stress Defense Gene Expression in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 16: 2448 -2 462 Bechtold U., Murphy D.J., and Mullineaux P.M. (2004) Arabidopsis Peptide Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase 2 prevents cellular oxidative damage in long nights The Plant Cell 16: 908-919 Gustavsson N., Kokke B.P.A., Härndahl U., Silow M., Bechtold U., Poghosyan Z., Murphy D.J., Boelens W.C. and Sundby C. (2002) A peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase highly expressed in photosynthetic tissue in Arabidopsis thaliana can protect the chaperone-like activity of a chloroplast-localized small heat shock protein. The Plant Journal 29: 1-10 Bechtold U., Pahlich E. and Lea P.J. (1998) Methionine sulphoximine does not inhibit pea and wheat glutamate dehydrogenase. Phytochemistry 49: 347-354