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Chris Hawes was a researcher affiliated with Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. Their academic work focused primarily on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular attention to Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Plant Science, Parasitology, and Biotechnology as subfields of study.

Their research covered a variety of topics including:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

Chris Hawes contributed to several scientific publications, with frequent appearances in these venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Journal of Microscopy
  • Methods in molecular biology

Recent significant papers included:

  • "p24 Family Proteins Are Involved in Transport to the Plasma Membrane of GPI-Anchored Proteins in Plants" (2020) published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "Functional characterization of Schistosoma mansoni fucosyltransferases in Nicotiana benthamiana plants" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Functional organisation of the endomembrane network in the digestive gland of the Venus flytrap: revisiting an old story with a new microscopy toolbox" (2020) published in Journal of Microscopy
  • "Differences in intracellular localisation of ANKH mutants that relate to mechanisms of calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease and craniometaphyseal dysplasia" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Make It Shine: Labelling the ER for Light and Fluorescence Microscopy" (2024) published in Methods in molecular biology

Throughout their career, they collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Verena Kriechbaumer, Kim van Noort, D. Linh Nguyen, Cornelis H. Hokke, and A. Schots. These collaborations reflect a network of scientific inquiry spanning molecular and cellular biology fields.

Best Publications

  • Rapid, transient expression of fluorescent fusion proteins in tobacco plants and generation of stably transformed plants.

    Imogen A Sparkes;John Runions;Anne Kearns;Chris Hawes

  • Stacks on tracks: the plant Golgi apparatus traffics on an actin/ER network†

    Petra Boevink;Karl Oparka;Simon Santa Cruz;Barry Martin

  • A Rab1 GTPase Is Required for Transport between the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Golgi Apparatus and for Normal Golgi Movement in Plants

    Henri Batoko;Huan-Quan Zheng;Chris Hawes;Ian Moore

  • Mapping the Arabidopsis organelle proteome

    Tom P. J. Dunkley;Svenja Hester;Ian P. Shadforth;John Runions

  • Characterisation of programmed cell death during aerenchyma formation induced by ethylene or hypoxia in roots of maize (Zea mays L.)

    Arunika H. L. A. N. Gunawardena;Deborah M. Pearce;Michael B. Jackson;Chris R. Hawes

  • Endoplasmic reticulum export sites and Golgi bodies behave as single mobile secretory units in plant cells.

    Luis L.P. daSilva;Erik L. Snapp;Jürgen Denecke;Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

  • Membrane Protein Transport between the Endoplasmic Reticulum and the Golgi in Tobacco Leaves Is Energy Dependent but Cytoskeleton Independent: Evidence from Selective Photobleaching

    Federica Brandizzi;Erik L. Snapp;Alison G. Roberts;Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

  • Electron microscopy of plant cells

    J. L. Hall;C. R. Hawes

  • Redistribution of membrane proteins between the Golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum in plants is reversible and not dependent on cytoskeletal networks.

    Claude M Saint-Jore;Janet Evins;Henri Batoko;Federica Brandizzi

  • The Destination for Single-Pass Membrane Proteins Is Influenced Markedly by the Length of the Hydrophobic Domain

    Federica Brandizzi;Nathalie Frangne;Sophie Marc-Martin;Chris Hawes

  • Immunological evidence that plants use both HDEL and KDEL for targeting proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum

    R. M. Napier;L. C. Fowke;C. Hawes;M. Lewis

  • Plant neurobiology: no brain, no gain?

    Amedeo Alpi;Nikolaus Amrhein;Adam Bertl;Michael R. Blatt

  • Plant N-Glycan Processing Enzymes Employ Different Targeting Mechanisms for Their Spatial Arrangement along the Secretory Pathway

    Claude Saint-Jore-Dupas;Andreas Nebenführ;Aurélia Boulaflous;Marie-Laure Follet-Gueye

  • Photoactivation of GFP reveals protein dynamics within the endoplasmic reticulum membrane

    John Runions;Thorsten Brach;Sebastian Kühner;Chris Hawes

  • N-glycans harboring the Lewis a epitope are expressed at the surface of plant cells.

    A C Fitchette-Lainé;V Gomord;M Cabanes;J C Michalski

  • The C‐terminal HDEL sequence is sufficient for retention of secretory proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) but promotes vacuolar targeting of proteins that escape the ER

    Veronique Gomord;Lise-Anne Denmat;Anne-Catherine Fitchette-Laine;Beatrice Satiat-Jeunemaitre

  • Movement and Remodeling of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Nondividing Cells of Tobacco Leaves

    I. Sparkes;J. Runions;C. Hawes;L. Griffing

  • Biosynthesis and Immunolocalization of Lewis a-ContainingN-Glycans in the Plant Cell

    Anne-Catherine Fitchette;Marion Cabanes-Macheteau;Laure Marvin;Barry Martin

  • The plant cytoskeleton, NET3C, and VAP27 mediate the link between the plasma membrane and endoplasmic reticulum

    Pengwei Wang;Timothy J. Hawkins;Christine Richardson;Ian Cummins

  • Plant Microtechnique and Microscopy

    Chris Hawes

Frequent Co-Authors

Federica Brandizzi
Federica Brandizzi Michigan State University
Lorenzo Frigerio
Lorenzo Frigerio University of Warwick
Petra C. Boevink
Petra C. Boevink James Hutton Institute
Karl J. Oparka
Karl J. Oparka University of Edinburgh
Colin M. Lazarus
Colin M. Lazarus University of Bristol
David G. Robinson
David G. Robinson Heidelberg University
Richard Strasser
Richard Strasser BOKU University
Mark D. Fricker
Mark D. Fricker University of Oxford
David Evans
David Evans University of Bristol
Chris R. M. Grovenor
Chris R. M. Grovenor University of Oxford

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