Assoc Prof Peter Beech
  Phone   +61 3 925 17341
Email   peter.beech@deakin.edu.au
Position   Associate Professor
Campus   Burwood
Research grouping   Biomolecular Sciences

Research interests

  1. Cell biology of protists
  2. Biology of the plant pathogen, Phytophthora

Career

PhD Melbourne 1989
1989 - 1991 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, University of Cologne.
1991 -1993: Rothmans Foundation Research Fellow, University of Melbourne.
1993 - 1995: Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Biology, Yale University.
1995 - 2000: ARC QEII Fellow, University of Melbourne and Deakin University.

Key publications

Beech, P.L., Heimann, K. & Melkonian, M. (1991) Development of the flagellar apparatus during the cell cycle in unicellular algae. Protoplasma 164:, 23-37 Springer Verlag, Wein

Kozminski, K., Beech, P.L. and Rosenbaum, J.L. (1995) The Chlamydomonas kinesin-like protein Fla10 is involved in motility with the flagellar membrane Journal of Cell Biology 131:, 1517-1527 Rockefeller Press, USA

Beech, P.L, Nheu, T., Schultz, T., Herbert, S., Lithgow, T., Gilson, P.A. and McFadden, G.I. (2000) Mitochondrial FtsZ in a chromophyte alga Science 287:, 1276-1279 AAAS, USA

Gilson, P.R., Yu, X.-C., Hereld, D., Barth, C., Savage, A., Kiefel, B.R., Lay, S., Fisher, P.R., Margolin, W. and Beech, P.L. (2003) Two Dictyostelium orthologs of the prokaryotic cell division protein, FtsZ, localize to mitochondria and are required for the maintenance of normal mitochondrial morphology Eukaryotic Cell 2, 1315 - 1326 ASM, USA

Kiefel, B., Gilson, P. R. and Beech, P. L. (2004) Diverse eukaryotes have retained mitochondrial homologues of the bacterial division protein, FtsZ. Protist 155, 105 - 115 Urban & Fischer, Germany

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Professional activities

Academic co-ordinator of the Deakin India Research Institute (DIRI)
Co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Biological Sciences (S123)
Editorial Board Member of the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Keith NivenRole of FtsZ proteins in mitochondrial division in Dictyostelium Dean PhillipsNovel inositol pathway proteins in Phytophthora William BurrageCopper transport in Phytophthora  

 

Teaching areas

Cell Biology SBB206
First-year biology SBB111 and SBB132
Creating Sustainable Futures SHD 201/301


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22nd September 2011