Anna Sheppard

Short CV

• 2010 onwards: Research scientist, Kiel, Germany
• 2006-2009: PhD, University of Adelaide, Australia
• 2005: Research Officer, University of Adelaide, Australia
• 2001-2004: BSc in Genetics + Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia

Research

• The genomic basis of host-parasite coevolution

Publications

• Lloyd AH, Rousseau-Gueutin M, Sheppard AE, Ayliffe MA, Timmis JN (2012) Promiscuous Organellar DNA. In: Bock R and Knoop V (eds.) Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria. In press.
• Rousseau-Gueutin M, Lloyd AH, Sheppard AE, Timmis JN (2012) Gene Transfer to the Nucleus. In: Bullerwell CE (ed.) Organelle Genetics: Evolution of Organelle Genomes and Gene Expression. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 147-171
• Sheppard AE, Madesis P, Lloyd AH, Day A, Ayliffe MA, Timmis JN (2011) Introducing an RNA editing requirement into a plastid-localised transgene reduces but does not eliminate functional gene transfer to the nucleus. Plant Mol Biol 76:299-309
• Sheppard AE, Timmis JN (2009) Instability of plastid DNA in the nuclear genome. PLoS Genet 5:e1000323 (Full text)
• Sheppard AE, Ayliffe MA, Blatch L, Day A, Delaney SK, Khairul-Fahmy N, Li Y, Madesis P, Pryor AJ, Timmis JN (2008) Transfer of plastid DNA to the nucleus is elevated during male gametogenesis in Tobacco. Plant Physiol 148:328-336 (Full text)