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Biography
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9204-8030
Twitter ID: razda5
2018 - Current: Assistant Professor
2015 - 2018: Nottingham Research Fellow (Probationary Lecturer)
2013-2015: Newton International Fellow (University of Nottingham)
2011-2013: Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow (UGent, Belgium)
Jun 2007- May 2011 PhD research (UQ, Australia)
2005-2007 - Research Officer (QLD DPI&F, Australia - Forestry Research)
Selected Awards:
2018: Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa
2017: UoN nominee for Philip Leverhulme Prize (Early Career academic)
2015: Rank Prize New Lecturer Award
2009: UniQuest Trailblazer open winner (Commercialisation competition)
2009: Queensland International Fellowship (PhD exchange to Europe)
2004: The 2004 Science and Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (RIRDC)
Expertise Summary
Teaching Summary
Module Convenor:
C112P1 Plant Science Level 1
D236P7 Plants and the Soil Environment Level 3
Module Contributor:
C11LOE Life on Earth Level 1
C11BE1 Tutorials/Dissertation in Environmental Science Level 1
D223P8 Applied Plant Physiology Level 2.
D224E5 Research and Professional Skills for Environmental Scientists 2 Level 2
C135E8 Arctic Ecology Field Course Level 3.
Undergraduate Research Projects Level 3
D24C08 Resource Capture by Crops Level 4. (Masters)
Teaching Projects
Hunting for Answers: Linking lectures with the real world using mobile treasure hunt app. Ethics approval: BIO-1718-0003.
Education Publications
A Rasmussen, R Rossini, L Kuchel (2011) Is it worth taking time out of first year science courses to explicitly teach team skills? 34th HERDSA Annual International Conference 34, 238-252.
Research Summary
I'm a plant ecophysiologist so I'm interested in how plants respond to their environment. In particular my lab studies adventitious (stem) root physiology from regulation of their formation and… read more
Recent Publications
RASMUSSEN, AMANDA, HU, YUMING, DEPAEPE, THOMAS, VANDENBUSSCHE, FILIP, BOYER, FRANCOIS-DIDIER, VAN DER STRAETEN, DOMINIQUE and GEELEN, DANNY, 2017. Ethylene Controls Adventitious Root Initiation Sites in Arabidopsis Hypocotyls Independently of Strigolactones: Journal of Plant Growth Regulation Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. BRACKIN, RICHARD, ATKINSON, BRIAN S., STURROCK, CRAIG J. and RASMUSSEN, AMANDA, 2017. Roots-eye view: Using microdialysis and microCT to non-destructively map root nutrient depletion and accumulation zones PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT. 40(12), 3135-3142 BIANKA STEFFENS and AMANDA RASMUSSEN, 2016. The Physiology of Adventitious Roots Plant Physiology. 170, 603-617 RASMUSSEN, AMANDA, HOSSEINI, SEYED ABDOLLAH, HAJIREZAEI, MOHAMMED-REZA, DRUEGE, UWE and GEELEN, DANNY, 2015. Adventitious rooting declines with the vegetative to reproductive switch and involves a changed auxin homeostasis JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY. 66(5), 1437-1452
Current Research
I'm a plant ecophysiologist so I'm interested in how plants respond to their environment. In particular my lab studies adventitious (stem) root physiology from regulation of their formation and emergence to differences in anatomy and how they take up water and nutrients.
Key projects:
Functional differences between maize root types. Funded by Nottingham Research Fellowship, Rank Prize New Lecturer award, BBSRC DTP Studentship.
Plants on the Pill: Crop root responses to wastewater pharmaceuticals. Funded by Agriculture and Food Security Research Priority Area pump priming grant
Apple root physiology. Funded by CTP PhD studentship in collaboration with NIAB-EMR.
Woody cutting propagation. Funding currently under negotiation.
More detail on our current research can be found at: http://www.arlab.co.uk/research.html