Personal profile
Career
Bibliographical Sketch
1984-1989 Mechanical Engineering, HTBL Graz, Austria, Ing.
1989-1996 B.Sc. Physics & MSc. Theor. Physics, Erzherzog Univ. Graz
1996-2000 PhD in Comp. Protein Cryst., EMBL & Karl-Franzens Univ. Graz.
2000-2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Crystallography - Dr. G. Bricogne, Cambridge
2002-2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Structural Bioinformatics - Prof. J. Thornton, EBI, Hinxton
2005- Project Leader in Computational & Systems Biology, JIC
2010- Head of Department, Computational & Systems Biology, JIC
Key Research Interests
Systems biology of plant-microbe interactions. The main research focus of my group is on the application of mathematical and computational models to help understand plant-microbe interactions. We are particularly interested in how biological entities process information and communicate through `noisy channels' to deliver biomechanical responses. The approaches range from standard numerical and theoretical physics techniques to methods of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational geometry, computer vision, information theory, Bayesian inference, evolutionary programming and the development of new algorithms.
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Aeciospore ejection in the rust pathogen Puccinia graminis is driven by moisture ingress
Bueno-Sancho, V., Orton, E. S., Gerrity, M., Lewis, C. M., Davey, P., Findlay, K. C., Barclay, E., Robinson, P., Morris, R. J., Blyth, M. & Saunders, D. G. O., 22 Oct 2021, In: Communications Biology. 4, 1216.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Control of mRNA translation by dynamic ribosome modification
Grenga, L., Little, R. H., Chandra, G., Woodcock, S. D., Saalbach, G., Morris, R. J. & Malone, J. G., 25 Jun 2020, In: PLoS Genetics. 16, 6, e1008837.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How water flow, geometry and material properties drive plant movements
Morris, R. J. & Blyth, M., Jul 2019, In: Journal of Experimental Botany. 70, 14, p. 3549-3560 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Shear-enhanced dispersion of a wound substance as a candidate mechanism for variation potential transmission
Blyth, M. & Morris, R., 15 Nov 2019, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 10, 1393.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The use of quantitative imaging to investigate regulators of membrane trafficking in Arabidopsis stomatal closure
Bourdais, G., McLachlan, D. H., Rickett, L. M., Zhou, J., Siwoszek, A., Häweker, H., Hartley, M., Kuhn, H., Morris, R. J., MacLean, D. & Robatzek, S., Feb 2019, In: Traffic. 20, 2, p. 168-180 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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