Professor Julia Davies

  • • Head of Transport
  • • Professor of Stress Signalling
  • • Director of Postgraduate Education
Available to supervise doctoral students
Professor Julia Davies

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Julia Davies is Head of Transport at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Previous Positions

1997 to present - Head of Group - Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, England

1994 to 1996 - Royal Society University Research Fellow - University of York, England

1992 to 1994 - Postdoctoral Researcher - University of York, England

1991 to 1992 - Postdoctoral Researcher - McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1988 to 1991 - Postdoctoral Researcher - University of York, England

Qualifications

1988 - PhD in Membrane Biology - University of Liverpool and Marine Biological Association, Liverpool, England

1985 - BSc in Botany - University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales

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Awards & Fellowships

2017 - Certificate of Recognition for Student Support - Cambridge University Students Union

2016 to present - Darwin College Fellow - University of Cambridge, England

2009 - Pilkington Prize for Teaching - University of Cambridge, England

1994 - Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 1994

1996 - President’s Medal - Society for Experimental Biology

Research

Researh Group

Transport

Research Overview

My group investigates the roles of transport proteins in adaptation, nutrition and growth. We are particularly interested in roots and how they sense, then respond to changes in environmental conditions. For this, we concentrate on the plasma membrane and study the calcium channel proteins that can generate specific calcium signals governing adaptation and growth regulation. We have identified extracellular nucleotides as novel plant cell regulators and are now exploring how they are perceived at the plasma membrane and how this relates to growth and stress responses.

School of Biological Sciences Theme Affiliations

Organisms, Evolution and Ecology

Publications

Selected publications

The calcium transporter ANNEXIN1 mediates cold‐induced calcium signaling and freezing tolerance in plants 29 December 2020 The EMBO Journal Qiangbo Liu, Yanglin Ding, Yiting Shi, Liang Ma, Yi Wang, Chunpeng Song, Katie A Wilkins, Julia M Davies, Heather Knight, Marc R Knight, Zhizhong Gong, Yan Guo & Shuhua Yang DORN1/P2K1 and purino-calcium signalling in plants: making waves with extracellular ATP 6 January 2020 Annals of Botany Elsa Matthus, Jian Sun, Limin Wang, Madhura G Bhat, Amirah B Mohammad-Sidik, Katie A Wilkins, Nathalie Leblanc-Fournier, Valérie Legué, Bruno Moulia, Gary Stacey & Julia M Davies Phosphate Starvation Alters Abiotic-Stress-Induced Cytosolic Free Calcium Increases in Roots 29 January 2019 Plant Physiology Elsa Matthus, Katie A Wilkins, Stéphanie M Swarbreck, Nicholas H Doddrell, Fabrizio G Doccula, Alex Costa & Julia M Davies Salinity-Induced Calcium Signaling and Root Adaptation in Arabidopsis Require the Calcium Regulatory Protein Annexin1 25 July 2013 Plant Physiology Anuphon Laohavisit, Siân L Richards, Lana Shabala, Chen Chen, Renato D D R. Colaço, Stéphanie M Swarbreck, Emma Shaw, Adeeba Dark, Sergey Shabala, Zhonglin Shang & Julia M Davies Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth 27 March 2003 Nature Julia Foreman, Vadim Demidchik, John H F Bothwell, Panagiota Mylona, Henk Miedema, Miguel Angel Torres, Paul Linstead, Silvia Costa, Colin Brownlee, Jonathan D G Jones, Julia M Davies & Liam Dolan

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students

Teaching

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part 1A Biology of Cells

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos 1A Physiology of Organisms

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos 1B Plant and Microbial Sciences

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part II Plant Sciences