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Tom Simmons

Tom simmons

Personal Details

Name : Thomas Simmons
Email address : T.Simmons-2@sms.ed.ac.uk
Nationality : British
Postion : PhD student (2009-2013)

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons), Biochemistry, University of Leeds, UK (2006 - 2009)

Research and Funding

  • Characterisation of five GH16 glycanase and transglycanase activities and of their hemicellulosic substrates (PhD thesis): Cloning and characterisation of mixed-linkage glucan : xyloglucan endotransglucosylase from Equisetum. Recently, all species that were tested from the evolutionarily isolated genus Equisetum (horsetails) have been shown to contain a novel cell wall-acting enzyme activity – mixed-linkage glucan : xyloglucan endotransglucosylase (MXE). This work aims to identify the enzyme responsible for MXE activity and to study the biochemistry of the MXE reaction.

    Research funding: BBSRC (2009-2013)

Publications

Conferences

Poster presentations

  • Simmons, T., Fry, S.C.: Characterising MXE activity. In: Book of Abstracts - Scottish Plant Biology Meeting, 22nd April, 2010.
  • Simmons, T., Fry, S.C.: Characterising MXE activity (updated). In: Abstract Book of XII Cell Wall Meeting – Porto, Portugal, July 25-30, 2010

Oral presentations

  • Fry, S.C.(speaker), Franková, L., Mohler, K.E., Simmons, T.: Novel endo- and exo-transglycosylase activities in land plants and charophytic algae. In: Abstract Book of XII Cell Wall Meeting – Porto, Portugal, July 25-30, 2010, p. 32, T54.

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