Dr Anne Rae: understanding sucrose transport and storage

Dr Anne Rae researches the cellular mechanisms of sugar transport and storage.

• 2 May 2006 | Updated 14 October 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications

Current activities 

Dr Anne Rae currently leads a project developing tools for tissue-specific and subcellular targeting.

She is also co-ordinating a new initiative on high-value sugar derivatives as alternative products for the sugar industry.

Recently, as part of the Sugarcane Improvement Group and the Cooperative Research Centre for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology, Dr Rae has investigated pathways of sugar transport and accumulation in sugarcane.

Background 

In 1994, Dr Rae joined CSIRO.

After completing her Doctorate, Dr Rae spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom, working on Rhizobium-plant interactions.

Since joining CSIRO she has continued to apply cell biology approaches to questions in plant development and metabolite transport.

Academic qualifications

Dr Rae undertook a Bachelor of Science at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and then completed an Honours program at the University of Melbourne, in 1984.

Dr Rae went on to be awarded a doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 1989, while working in the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre at the University of Melbourne on pollen-tube development.

See a list of scientific papers published by Dr Rae in her publishing history.