Rate My Professor Thomas Martin

Prior to his current role, Martin was Lecturer in Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK, INRA Versailles, France, and IGF Berlin, Germany. At UWA, he delivers lectures in undergraduate levels 1-3 and postgraduate level 4 courses in biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics, coordinates teaching for genetics and molecular life sciences programs, and supervises PhD students. He co-chairs the Education Committee of the School of Molecular Sciences, serves on the Institutional Biosafety Committee, and has presented at UWA Open Days on Genetics and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology majors in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Key publications include "14-3-3σ (sigma) regulates proliferation and differentiation of multipotent p63-positive cells isolated from human breastmilk" (Cell Cycle, 2011), "Transporters in starch synthesis" (Functional Plant Biology, 2007), "Carbohydrate partitioning and sugar signalling in Cauliflower mosaic virus-infected turnip and Arabidopsis" (Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 2006), "The effect of nitrogen and phosphorus deficiency on flavonol accumulation in plant tissue" (2001), and "Arabidopsis Seedling Growth, Storage Lipid Mobilization, and Photosynthetic Gene Expression Are Regulated by Carbon:Nitrogen Availability" (2002).