Global Council for Innovation in Rapeseed and Canola
Members' Directory
Last name :
PARKIN
First name :
Isobel
Entrance year :
2021
Occupation :
Research Scientist
Company :
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Email :
isobel.parkin(at)agr.gc.ca
Address :
107 Science Place, S7N 0X2 Saskatoon / Canada
Main fields of interest :
- Seeds, genetics
- Plant physiology
- Agronomy
Professional experience : * 1991-1994: Research Assistant, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK: Development and application of RFLP markers for genetic analysis of Brassica species
* 1994-1997: Postdoc, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK: Comparative mapping between Brassica and Arabidopsis
* 1997-1999: NSERC Visiting Fellow, AAFC, Saskatoon Research Centre: Establishment of genomics tools for Brassica physical mapping and functional characterisation of candidate genes
* 1999-present: Brassica Genomics Research Scientist, AAFC, Saskatoon Research Centre
* 2004-present: Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan
Education : * 1989-1990: MSc in Computer Science, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
* 1991-1995: PhD, University of East Anglia: Genetic analysis of the amphidiploid genome of Brassica napus
Selected publications : https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=MPmUDd4AAAAJ&hl=en
* EE Higgins, EC Howell, SJ Armstrong, IAP Parkin. A major quantitative trait locus on chromosome A9, BnaPh1, controls homoeologous recombination in Brassica napus. New Phytologist 229 (6), 3281-3293.
* NJ Larkan, L Ma, P Haddadi, M Buchwaldt, IAP Parkin, M Djavaheri, ... The Brassica napus wall‐associated kinase‐like (WAKL) gene Rlm9 provides race‐specific blackleg resistance. The Plant Journal 104 (4), 892-900.
* S Perumal, CS Koh, L Jin, M Buchwaldt, EE Higgins, C Zheng, D Sankoff, ...A high-contiguity Brassica nigra genome localizes active centromeres and defines the ancestral Brassica genome. Nature Plants 6 (8), 929-941.
* S Kagale, C Koh, J Nixon, V Bollina, WE Clarke, R Tuteja, C Spillane, ...The emerging biofuel crop Camelina sativa retains a highly undifferentiated hexaploid genome structure. Nature Communications 5 (1), 1-11.
* B Chalhoub, F Denoeud, S Liu, IAP Parkin, H Tang, X Wang, J Chiquet, ...Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome. Science 345 (6199), 950-953.
I* AP Parkin, C Koh, H Tang, SJ Robinson, S Kagale, WE Clarke, CD Town, ...Transcriptome and methylome profiling reveals relics of genome dominance in the mesopolyploid Brassica oleracea. Genome Biology 15 (6), 1-18
