Michele Stanley

Telephone:+44 (0)1631 559295
E-mail: Michele.Stanley@sams.ac.uk


Scientific interests

• Lead Scientist of the BioMara Project
• The functional genomics of algal biofouling
• Adhesion and algal cell wall development
• Algal-bacterial interactions in terms of algal development
• The potential of algal biomass as a source of renewable energy

Current projects

BioMara: Sustainable fuels from marine biomass

Currently part of the Phaeodactylum genome annotation group looking for genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism, cell adhesion and cell wall development. Part of a team of experts assembled by the Irish company BioXL to carry out a review for Sustainable Energy Ireland on the scope for production of biofuel from marine algae in Ireland.


Teaching / supervising activities

Actively involved in lecturing to undergraduates on the BSc Marine Science degree course

Module leader for H2 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   


Publications

P G. Kroth, A Chiovitti, V Martin-Jezequel, T Mock, M Schnitzler Parker, M S. Stanley, A Kaplan, L Caron, A Gruber, T Weber U Maheswari, E. V Armbrust, C Bowler (2008). A model of the carbohydrate metabolism in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum deduced from whole genome analysis. PLoS One 3(1): e1426.

MS Stanley, JA Callow (2007). Whole cell adhesion strength of morphotypes and isolates of Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae). The European Journal of Phycology  42: 191-197

MS Stanley, R Perry and JA Callow (2005).  Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from the green alga Ulva linza (Chlorophyta).  The Journal of Phycology 41: 1219-1226

Humphrey, AJ, Finlay, JA, PETTITT, ME, STANLEY, MS, CALLOW, JA (2005). Effect of Ellman’s  Reagent and dithiothreitol on the curing of the spore adhesive glycoprotein of the green alga Ulva.  The Journal of Adhesion 81:791-803

M S Stanley, ME Callow, R. Perry, R.S Ablberte, R. Smith, JA Callow (2002).  Inhibtion of fungal spore adhesion by zosteric acid as the basis for a novel, non-toxic crop protection technology.  Phytopathology 9:378-383

JD O’Niel, M Bugno, MS Stanley, JB Barham-Morris, NA Woodcock, DJ Clement, NJW Clipson, MP Whitehead, DA Fincham, P Hooley (2002). Cloning of a novel gene encoding a C2H2 zinc finger protein that alleviates sensitivity to abiotic stresses in Asperigillus nidulans.  Mycological Research 106:491-498

JA Callow, MS Stanley, R Wetherbee, ME Callow (2000). Cellular and molecular approaches to understanding primary adhesion in Enteromorpha: an overview. Biofouling 16 (2-4): 141.

MS Stanley, ME Callow, JA Callow (1999).  Monoclonal antibodies to adhesive cell coat glycoproteins secreted by zoospores of the green alga Enteromorpha. Planta 210:61-71.

DJ Clement, MS Stanley, J O’Neil, NA Woodcock, DA Fincham, NJW Clipson, P Hooley (1999).  Complementation cloning of salt tolerance determinants from the marine hyphomycete Dendryphiella salina in Aspergillus nidulans. Mycological Research 103: 1252-1258.

J Edwards, D Chamberlain, G Brosnan, D West, MS Stanley, P Hooley, NJW Clipson (1998). A comparative physiological and morphological study of the marine hyphomycetes Dendryphiella salina and D. arenaria in relation to adaptation to life in the sea. Mycological Research 102: 1198-1202

N Attwell, DJ Clement, MS Stanley, NJW Clipson, P Hooley, DA Fincham  (1997). Salt sensitivity and arginase activity in Aspergillus nidulans. Biochemical Society Transactions 25, 98.

MS Stanley, ME Callow, JA Callow (1997). Production of MAbs to adhesive glycoproteins secreted by the marine biofouling alga, Enteromorpha. Phycologia 36: 107

D Clement, MS Stanley, NA Attwell, NJW Clipson, and DA Fincham, P Hooley (1996). Evidence for sltA1 as a salt sensitive allele of the arginase gene (agaA) in the ascomycete Aspergillus nidulans. Current Genetics 29: 462-472.

NA Attwell, D Clement, MS Stanley, NJW Clipson, P Hooley, DA Fincham (1995). Arginine interactions with Na+-H+ antiporter in protoplasts from Aspergillus nidulans. Journal of Physiological  489: 104-105.

MS Stanley, P Hooley, NJW Clipson (1995). A rapid method of heterologous gene cloning using cotransformation of lambda genomic DNA banks in Aspergillus nidulans. Fungal Genetics Newsletter 42, 76-77.

D Clement, NA Attwell, MS Stanley, NJW Clipson, P Hooley, DA Fincham (1994). Salt sensitivity and arginine toxicity in Aspergillus nidulans. Biochemical Society Transactions 22: S24-S24

MS Stanley, AE Brown (1994). Separation and degradation action of polygalacturonase isozymes produced by Colletotrichum musae. Journal of Phytopathology 141: 217-224.



Educational and career history

BSc(Hons) Biological Sciences, University of Wolverhampton (1989)

PhD in Mycological and Plant Pathology, The Queen's University of Belfast (1993)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wolverhampton (1993- 1996)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Birmingham (1996- 2006)