Research Interests
I am interested in cellular and molecular biology as well as biotechnology. Currently, I am involved in a number of projects including: (i) hop improvement for the brewing and emerging industries; (ii) the biosynthesis of commercially important hop compounds; (iii) developing polyploid breeding methodologies in commercial species of Acacia; (iv) using plant tissue culture for the improvement and conservation of rare and threatened Tasmanian plants; (v) the biosynthesis of dinoflagellate toxins; (vi) cytoskeletal dynamics in brassinosteroid pea mutants; (vii) laticifers and latex yield in Papaver somniferum (opium poppy); and (viii) thraustochytrid bioprospecting (omega-3 oils).
Research Areas:Teaching
- Head, School of Plant Science
- Bachelor of Biotechnology Coordinator
- KPA373 Cell Biology Coordinator
UnitsSelected Publications:- Harper JDI, Salisbury JL, John PCL, Koutoulis A, 2004, 'Changes in the centrin and microtubule cytoskeletons after metaphase arrest of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii met1 mutant', Protoplasma, 224, pgs. 159-169
- Knowles CL, Koutoulis A, Reid JB, 2004, '‘Microtubule Orientation in the Brassinosteroid Mutants lk, lka and lkb of Pea’', Journal of Plant Growth , 23, pgs. 146-155
- Sands RJ, Brown NR, Koutoulis A, 2003, '‘Micropropagation of two threatened Tasmanian species of Calocephalus (Asteraceae), with comments on phenotypic plasticity’', Australian Journal of Botany, 51, pgs. 415-420
- Roy Ashish, Leggett G, Koutoulis A, 2001, '‘In vitro tetraploid induction and generation of tetraploids from mixoploids in hop (Humulus Iupulus L.)’', Plant Cell Reports, 20, pgs. 489-495
- Gilmour CA, Crowden RK, Koutoulis A, 2000, 'Heat shock, smoke and darkness: partner cues in promoting seed germination in Epacris tasmanica (Epacridaceae)', Australian Journal of Botany , 48, pgs. 603-609
- Pazour GJ, Koutoulis A, Benashski SE, Dickert BL, Sheng H, Patel-King RS, King SM, Witman GB, 1999, 'LC2, the Chlamydomonas homologue of the t complex-encoded protein tctex2, is essential for outer dynein arm assembly.', Molecular Biology of the Cell , 10, pgs. 3507-3520
- Koutoulis A, Pazour GJ, Wilkerson CG, Inaba K, Sheng H, Takada S, Witman GB, 1997, 'The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ODA3 gene encodes a protein of the outer dynein arm docking complex', Journal of Cell Biology , 137, pgs. 1069-1080
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