Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

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

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

Weatherill, K., Lambiris, I., Pickett-Heaps, J. D., Deane, J. and Beech, P. L. (2007) Plastid division in Mallomonas (Synurophyceae, Heterokonta). Journal of Phycology 43, 535-541

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Professional activities

Co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Biological Sciences (S123)
Editorial Board Member of the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

 

Postdoctoral fellows

NameProject title
Dean PhillipsA Novel Phospholipase from Phytophthora  

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Jeffory HowardStructural Analyses of a Novel Phospholipase from Phytophthora  

 

Teaching areas

Unit Chair for SLE111, Cells and Genes
Unit Chair for SLE132, Biology: Form and Function


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8th February 2013