Alison Tidy

Contact

• workPlant Science
  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
• Alison.Tidy@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr. Alison Tidy is a Research Fellow in Prof. Zoe Wilson's lab group, in Plant and Crop Sciences.

Current Research areas are focused on understanding male development in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica which includes;

• Understanding the dynamics involved tapetal development pathway in anthers.
• Further understanding the role of the transcription factor ABORTED MICROSPORE in the regulation of tapetal development.
• Programmed cell death in male development
• Heat and cold stress during flower development

Dr. Alison Tidy (previously Ferguson) obtained her BSc. Hons in Biotechnology at the Univerisity of Nottingham in 2007. She then completed her Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Dr. Ranjan Swarup in 2012, before joining Prof. Zoe Wilson's lab as a Research Fellow.

Research Summary

Current Research areas include;

Understanding the effects of heat and cold treatment during flowering in Brassica. Developing regulatory networks for further understanding of the tapetum and pollen development within plants using a system targeted approach. This is being achieved by focusing on known mutants and using different techniques such as transcriptomics, ChIP analysis, Yeast-1-hybrid, protein-protein interaction, mutant studies and fluorescent tags to construct and functionally test the resulting networks.

Recent Publications

• JOSÉ FERNÁNDEZ-GÓMEZ, BEHZAD TALLE, ALISON TIDY and ZOE A WILSON, 2020. Accurate staging of reproduction development in Cadenza wheat by non-destructive spike analysis Journal of Experimental Botany.
• ZHAO, SHU-QING, LI, WEN-CHAO, ZHANG, YI, TIDY, ALISON C. and WILSON, ZOE A., 2019. Knockdown of Arabidopsis ROOT UVB SENSITIVE4 Disrupts Anther Dehiscence by Suppressing Secondary Thickening in the Endothecium PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY. 60(10), 2293-2306
• FERGUSON, ALISON C., PEARCE, SIMON, BAND, LEAH R., YANG, CAIYUN, FERJENTSIKOVA, IVANA, KING, JOHN, YUAN, ZHENG, ZHANG, DABING and WILSON, ZOE A., 2017. Biphasic regulation of the transcription factor ABORTED MICROSPORES (AMS) is essential for tapetum and pollen development in Arabidopsis NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 213(2), 778-790
• CHEW, BEE LYNN, FISK, IAN D., FRAY, RUPERT, TUCKER, GREGORY A., BODI, ZSUZSANNA, FERGUSON, ALISON, XIA, WEI and SEYMOUR, GRAHAM B., 2017. The effect of adenosine monophosphate deaminase overexpression on the accumulation of umami-related metabolites in tomatoes PLANT CELL REPORTS. 36(1), 81-87

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Dr. Alison Tidy has been involved in a number of public engagement activities including

• Developing a children's picture book around Plant Science 2019-2020
• After school science club - Sunny Side Spencer Academy 2019
• Peterborough STEM festival 2019
• Festival of Science and Curosity 2019
• Bluecoat Beechdale University Visits 2017

Past Research

Past Research areas include;

• CT scanning of Monocots during flowering as a technique to non-destructively stage material
• Understanding the role of AXR4 in AUX1/LAX family in protein transport from the ER to the plasma membrane
• Discovering novel ER accessory proteins in Arabidopis thaliana involved in escorting, guiding or transporting membrane proteins from the ER to their final destination

• JOSÉ FERNÁNDEZ-GÓMEZ, BEHZAD TALLE, ALISON TIDY and ZOE A WILSON, 2020. Accurate staging of reproduction development in Cadenza wheat by non-destructive spike analysis Journal of Experimental Botany.
• ZHAO, SHU-QING, LI, WEN-CHAO, ZHANG, YI, TIDY, ALISON C. and WILSON, ZOE A., 2019. Knockdown of Arabidopsis ROOT UVB SENSITIVE4 Disrupts Anther Dehiscence by Suppressing Secondary Thickening in the Endothecium PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY. 60(10), 2293-2306
• FERGUSON, ALISON C., PEARCE, SIMON, BAND, LEAH R., YANG, CAIYUN, FERJENTSIKOVA, IVANA, KING, JOHN, YUAN, ZHENG, ZHANG, DABING and WILSON, ZOE A., 2017. Biphasic regulation of the transcription factor ABORTED MICROSPORES (AMS) is essential for tapetum and pollen development in Arabidopsis NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 213(2), 778-790
• CHEW, BEE LYNN, FISK, IAN D., FRAY, RUPERT, TUCKER, GREGORY A., BODI, ZSUZSANNA, FERGUSON, ALISON, XIA, WEI and SEYMOUR, GRAHAM B., 2017. The effect of adenosine monophosphate deaminase overexpression on the accumulation of umami-related metabolites in tomatoes PLANT CELL REPORTS. 36(1), 81-87
• TRACY, SAOIRSE R., GOMEZ, JOSE FERNANDEZ, STURROCK, CRAIG J., WILSON, ZOE A. and FERGUSON, ALISON C., 2017. Non-destructive determination of floral staging in cereals using X-ray micro computed tomography (mu CT) PLANT METHODS. 13,
• YANG C, SONG J, FERGUSON A, KLISCH D, SIMPSON K, MO R, TAYLOR B and WILSON ZA, 2017. Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation. Plant physiology. (In Press.)
• PEARCE, SIMON, FERGUSON, ALISON, KING, JOHN and WILSON, ZOE A., 2015. FlowerNet: A Gene Expression Correlation Network for Anther and Pollen Development PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 167(4), 1717-U923
• FAN X, YANG C, KLISCH D, FERGUSON A, BHAELLERO RP, NIU X and WILSON ZA, 2014. ECHIDNA protein impacts on male fertility in Arabidopsis by mediating trans-Golgi network secretory trafficking during anther and pollen development. Plant physiology. 164(3), 1338-49
• PLACKETT ARG, FERGUSON AC, POWERS SJ, WANCHOO-KOHLI A, PHILLIPS AL, WILSON ZA, HEDDEN P and THOMAS SG, 2014. DELLA activity is required for successful pollen development in the Columbia ecotype of Arabidopsis. The New phytologist. 201(3), 825-36
• PÉRET, B., SWARUP, K., FERGUSON, A., SETH, M., YANG, Y., DHONDT, S., JAMES, N., CASIMIRO, I., PERRY, P., SYED, A., YANG, H., REEMMER, J., VENISON, E., HOWELLS, C., PEREZ-AMADOR, M.A., YUN, J., ALONSO, J., BEEMSTER, G.T.S., LAPLAZE, L., MURPHY, A., BENNETT, M.J., NIELSEN, E. and SWARUP, R., 2012. AUX/LAX genes encode a family of auxin influx transporters that perform distinct functions during Arabidopsis development The Plant Cell. 24(7), 2874-2885