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Dr Natalie Ferry
My research is primarily focused on agricultural biotechnology. Climate change, population growth and the with-drawl of pesticide products from the EU threaten food security and innovation in this area is increasingly recognised as the means to tackle these problems. To this end my research focuses on the interactions between environment and organism and understanding the molecular interactions of the system.
Investigating Plant-Insect Interactions at the Molecular Level. Plant responses to insect feeding (and other forms of stress) are highly complex and multidimensional. A key focus is characterizing the plant responses to herbivory using proteomics approaches.
Investigating the environmental impact of GM crops. Plants expressing insecticidal proteins have the potential to have a deleterious impact on organisms at higher trophic levels (such as predators and parasitoids). This work focuses on the effects of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins, lectins and enzyme inhibitors on insect digestive physiology; specifically the ability of predators to respond to and overcome the effects of exposure to insecticidal proteins via up-regulation of digestive proteases or other enzymes; as well as binding of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins to the insect mid-gut and identification of Bt receptors.
Novel lignocellulose degrading enzymes. Biomass in the form of bioenergy provides about 10% of the global energy supply (50 EJ/year), and is the largest source of renewable energy. First generation biofuel has used starch and sugar from food crops which can be fermented to bioethanol. Second generation biofuels aim to use lignocellulosic material (plant cell walls) as the main carbohydrate source thus preventing food and fuel competing for agricultural land.
Biochemical conversion of biomass advantageously preserves the original carbohydrate structures in the form of monomeric sugars and enzyme technology is generally considered the most sustainable technology for saccharification. However, despite large efforts in the past, the (in)efficiency of enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials remains a key limiting step. My work aims to construct metagenomic libraries from the guts of invertebrates known to digest lignocellulose and screen for novel enzymes.
Plant peptides. Work recently begun aims to use regions of plant lectins to (a) specifically recognise cancer cells and (b) to deliver either a toxin or siRNA into a cell.
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openalex(2020)
Education + trainingno. 5 (2020): 581-598
mag(2014)
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Sociability: 5
Diversity: 2
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