Rate My Professor Nathan Tivendale

Tivendale's research specializations include plant biochemistry, plant hormone biology with a focus on auxins, plant proteomics, metabolism, cell and molecular biology, secondary metabolism, and natural products for drug discovery. His academic interests center on energy use and efficiency in plants, particularly protein synthesis and degradation. Current projects encompass protein turnover and energy investment in cereal crops, linking protein age with function, and evolving enzymes to extend their working life and improve plant performance. He returned to academia in 2019 as a Research Fellow in the Millar lab group at The University of Western Australia. Tivendale's contributions have garnered over 300 citations, influencing understandings of auxin signaling, enzyme stability, and metabolic engineering. Key publications include 'Enhancing the nutritional value of fava beans: Challenges and emerging strategies for minimization of antinutrients' (Khan, F. et al., Food Chemistry, 2025), 'How is auxin linked with cellular energy pathways to promote growth?' (Tivendale, N.D. & Millar, A.H., New Phytologist, 2022), 'In vivo homopropargylglycine incorporation enables sampling, isolation and characterization of nascent proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana' (Tivendale, N.D. et al., Plant Journal, 2021), 'Knockdown of Succinate Dehydrogenase Assembly Factor 2 Induces Reactive Oxygen Species-Mediated Auxin Hypersensitivity Causing pH-Dependent Root Elongation' (Tivendale, N.D. et al., Plant & Cell Physiology, 2021), and 'The number of catalytic cycles in an enzyme's lifetime and why it matters to metabolic engineering' (Hanson, A.D. et al., PNAS, 2021). He has produced 17 research outputs, including articles and reviews.