Aberdeen Mycorrhiza Research Group

Pamela Parkin

Research Assistant

The Macaulay Institute

E-mail: p.parkin@macaulay.ac.uk

Research interests

Soil Plant and Microbial Interactions
Fungal molecular ecology - development and application of molecular fingerprinting techniques to analyse soil fungal communities.

Publications

Anderson, I. C., Bastias, B. A., Genney, D. R., Parkin, P. I. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2007). Basidiomycete fungal communities in Australian sclerophyll forest soil are altered by repeated prescribed burning. Mycological Research (in press).
Anderson, I. C. & Parkin, P. I. (2006) Detection of active soil fungi by RT-PCR amplification of precursor rRNA molecules. Journal of Microbiological Methods 68: 248-253.
Paterson, L. Mutch, P. Dhillon, R. & Harrier, L.A. (2001) Isolation and study of carbon sensing gene homologues from the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae. Plant microbial interactions. Positive interactions in relation to crop production and utilisation, Aspects of Applied Biology, 63, 111-116.

Selected poster presentations

Bougoure, D. S., Parkin, P. I., Cairney, J. W. G., Alexander, I. J. & Anderson, I. C. (2006) Scots pine trees influence fungal diversity in understorey ericaceous roots. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhizae (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
Anderson, I. C., Mutch, P. I. & Campbell, C. D. (2004) Fungal diversity and community structure in soil amended with sewage sludge rich in cadmium, copper and zinc. Tenth International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME10), Cancun, Mexico.
Harling, R. Darling, D. Mutch, P. Suwanto, A. Dubickas, A. Gladstone, G. Cochet, A. Cazor, A. (2003) Pseudomonas fluorescens: Role of biosurfactant viscosin in aerial surface ecology and disease in broccoli. ICPP, January 2003, Auckland, New Zealand.
Paterson, L. Mutch, P. & Harrier L.A. (2002) Isolation and study of carbon sensing gene homologues from the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae. 6th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, 6-9th April 2002, Pisa, Italy.
Walsh, D.J, Mutch, P. & Harrier L.A. (2002) Gene identification in the pre-symbiotic stage of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora rosea by Expressed Sequence Tag analysis. Scottish Microbiology Society/British Society for Plant Pathology, Plant- Microbe Interactions meeting, 4th September 2002, Paisley University.
Walsh, D.J, Mutch, P. & Harrier L.A. (2002) Gene identification in the pre-symbiotic stage of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora rosea by Expressed Sequence Tag analysis. 4th Annual meeting of the Scottish Root Group in association with The Scottish Soils Discussion group- Roots and their associated microbes: Their role in sustainable systems, 18th September 2002, SAC, Edinburgh.
Walsh, D.J, Mutch, P. & Harrier L.A. (2002) Gene identification in the pre-symbiotic stage of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora rosea by Expressed Sequence Tag analysis. SEERAD Genomics Workshop, 1st October 2002, Rowett Research Institiute.
Walsh, D.J, Mutch, P. & Harrier L.A. (2002) Gene identification in the pre-symbiotic stage of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora rosea by Expressed Sequence Tag analysis. Scottish Mycology and Plant Pathology Club, SCRI, Invergowrie, Dundee, 26th November 2002.
Harrier, L.A., Paterson, L., Mutch, P., Dhillon, R. (2001) Isolation and study of carbon sensing and metabolic genes of Glomus mosseae in its symbiotic association with tomato roots. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the International Society of Root Research, November 11-15, Hagoya, Japan pp436-437.
Paterson, L. Mutch, P. & Harrier L.A. (2001) Isolation and study of carbon sensing gene homologues from Glomus mosseae (Nicol & Gerd,.) Gerdemann & Trappe. Roskilde, Denmark, 25-28th January 2001.

Research Experience

2003 - Research Assistant, Environmental Sciences Group, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.
1999 - 2003 Research Assistant, Crop Science Dept, Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh. Identification and study of functional genes expressed during pre-symbiotic and symbiotic growth of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Isolation of the biosurfactant gene from Pseudomonas fluorescens

Education & Background

1999 - BSc (Hons) Applied Biosciences and Chemistry (2:2), School of Applied Sciences, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.