Renee Lee
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+441183785209
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Associate Professor
- Admissions Tutor in BSc Biological Sciences
- Programme Director in BSc Biological Sciences
- School Director of Placements and Employability
- Deputy School Director of Recruitment and Admissions
- Visiting Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Areas of interest
- Compound/species-specific biomarkers (molecular fossils)
- Biomineralisation in coccolithophores
- Coccolith-associated polysaccharides (CAPs) and calcification
- Microbial diversity in caves
- Understanding microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP)
- Trace metal homeostasis in biology (metalloenzymes and isotopic fractionation)
- Evolution carbon concentrating mechanisms in coccolithophores
Postgraduate supervision
Supervision of the following PhD students
- Ana Heureux (University of Oxford)
- Maeve Eason-Hubbard (University of Oxford)
- Louis Claxton (University of Oxford)
Teaching
Module convenor:
- BI3PROA Research Project - Ecology and Evolution
- BI3PROB Research Project - Biomolecular
- BI3IP17 - Individual Project
- BI2BM45 Key Skills in Biomedicine 2
- BI2EZ45 Key Skills in Ecology and Zoology 2
- BI2PLA Summer Placement
- BI2PEX Professional Experience
Other teaching:
- BIOBF1 Foundation Programme: Biology
- BI1BEC1 Building Blocks of Life
- BI1S1 Introductory Microbiology
- BI1BAC2 Bacteriology and Virology
- BI1AP12 Anatomy and Physiology
- BI2MBC Marine Biology and Conservation
- BI2BPB5 Physiological Biochemistry
- BI3S78 Seminars in Biology
Research centres and groups
Collaborators
- Prof. Rosalind Rickaby, University of Oxford
- Prof. Alex Halliday, University of Oxford
- Prof. Ann Pearson, Harvard University
- Prof. Colin Brownlee, Marine Biological Association
- Dr Fabio Nudelman, University of Edinburgh
- Dr Chris Day, University of Oxford
- Dr Louise Maurice, British Geological Survey
- Dr Debbie Salmon, University of Exeter
Websites/blogs
Publications
- Walker, J. , Marzec, B. , Lee, R. , Vodrazkova, K. , Day, S. , Tang, C. , Rickaby, R. , Nudelman, F. (2019) Polymorph selectivity of coccolith-associated polysaccharides from Gephyrocapsa oceanica on calcium carbonate formation in vitro. Advanced Functional Materials , 29 (1). ISSN: 1616-3028 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201807168
- Wilkes, E. , Lee, R. , McClelland, H. , Rickaby, R. , Pearson, A. (2018) Carbon isotope ratioss of coccolith-associated polysaccharides of Emiliania huxleyi as a function of growth rate and CO2 concentration. Organic Geochemistry , 119 pp. 1-10. ISSN: 0146-6380 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.02.006
- Heureux, A. , Young, J. , Whitney, S. , Eason-Hubbard, M. , Lee, R. , Sharwood, R. , Rickaby, R. (2017) The role of Rubisco kinetics and pyrenoid morphology in shaping the CCM of haptophyte microalgae. Journal of Experimental Botany , 68 (14). pp. 3959-3969. ISSN: 0022-0957 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx179
- Rickaby, R. , Hermoso, M. , Lee, R. , Rae, B. , Heureux, A. , Balestreri, C. , Chakravati, L. , Schroeder, D. , Brownlee, C. (2016) Environmental carbonate chemistry selects for phenotype of recently isolated strains of Emiliania huxleyi. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography , 127 pp. 28-40. ISSN: 0967-0645 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.02.010
- Monteiro, F. , Bach, L. , Brownlee, C. , Bown, P. , Rickaby, R. , Poulton, A. , Tyrell, T. , Beaufort, L. , Dutkiewicz, S. , Gibbs, S. , Gutowska, M. , Lee, R. , Riebesell, U. , Young, J. , Ridgwell, A. (2016) Why marine phytoplankton calcify. Science Advances , 2 (7). ISSN: 2375-2548 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501822
- Lee, R. , Mavridou, D. , Papadakos, G. , McClelland, H. , Rickaby, R. (2016) The uronic acid content of coccolith-associated polysaccharides provides insight into coccolithogenesis and past climate. Nature Communications , 7 ISSN: 2041-1723 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13144
- Horner, T. , Lee, R. , Henderson, G. , Rickaby, R. (2013) Nonspecific uptake and homeostasis drive the oceanic cadmium cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 110 (7). pp. 2500-2505. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213857110
- Lee, R. , Smith, J. , Rickaby, R. (2013) Cloning, expression and characterization of the δ‐carbonic anhydrase of Thalassiosira weissflogii (Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology , 49 (1). pp. 170-177. ISSN: 1529-8817 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2012.01226.x