Joshua L. Heazlewood
BIOSKETCH
Joshua Heazlewood holds a BSc (Hons) and PhD from La Trobe University (Australia) in the area of plant molecular biology. After receiving his PhD in 2001, he took a postdoctoral position with Harvey Millar and Jim Whelan in the Biochemistry Department at The University of Western Australia (UWA) examining mitochondrial function in plants using newly emerging proteomic techniques. In 2004 he received a UWA Post-Doctoral Fellowship and in 2005 received an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship to extend and further develop projects around the characterization of plant mitochondria and the respiratory chain complexes in plants. During this period he developed the SUBcellular Arabidopsis database (SUBA) to more easily classify the subcellular localization of proteins in Arabidopsis. He spent 2007 at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP) in Potsdam-Golm (Germany) as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in the group of Wolfram Weckwerth. During this period he employed advanced mass spectrometry techniques to examine protein phosphorylation. This resulted in the development of the first plant phosphorylation database (PhosPhAt), in collaboration with Waltraud Schulze.
Towards the end of 2007, he was invited to create a research team at the newly funded US Department of Energy, Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) in Berkeley, California (USA). JBEI is a mission driven research facility with the objective of advancing our capacity to utilize cellulosic material for advanced biofuel production. While at JBEI (2008 to 2014) he led the Plant Systems Biology research group which developed programs focused on the utilization of proteomics, imaging and bioinformatics on aspects of plant cell wall biosynthesis. This research program was tightly integrated within the Feedstocks Division at JBEI together with work conducted by Henrik V. Scheller, Pam Ronald and Dominique Loque. During this period he developed advanced separation techniques to isolate the Golgi apparatus from plants and developed data aggregation and visualization tools for the plant community (e.g. MASCP Gator).
In 2013, he was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship within the School of Botany at The University of Melbourne (Australia). The research objectives of the Future Fellowship are to relocate technologies and approaches developed at JBEI, principally around plant cell wall biosynthesis. This includes endomembrane separation technologies, computational approaches to investigate post translational modifications, a systems analysis of nucleotide sugar metabolism and the characterization of plant nucleotide sugar transporters.
Towards the end of 2007, he was invited to create a research team at the newly funded US Department of Energy, Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) in Berkeley, California (USA). JBEI is a mission driven research facility with the objective of advancing our capacity to utilize cellulosic material for advanced biofuel production. While at JBEI (2008 to 2014) he led the Plant Systems Biology research group which developed programs focused on the utilization of proteomics, imaging and bioinformatics on aspects of plant cell wall biosynthesis. This research program was tightly integrated within the Feedstocks Division at JBEI together with work conducted by Henrik V. Scheller, Pam Ronald and Dominique Loque. During this period he developed advanced separation techniques to isolate the Golgi apparatus from plants and developed data aggregation and visualization tools for the plant community (e.g. MASCP Gator).
In 2013, he was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship within the School of Botany at The University of Melbourne (Australia). The research objectives of the Future Fellowship are to relocate technologies and approaches developed at JBEI, principally around plant cell wall biosynthesis. This includes endomembrane separation technologies, computational approaches to investigate post translational modifications, a systems analysis of nucleotide sugar metabolism and the characterization of plant nucleotide sugar transporters.
Academic Appointments
2018 - Associate Professor in Plant Biochemistry, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2014 - 2018: ARC Future Fellow, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2014 - 2018: Guest Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
2008 - 2014: Director of Plant Systems Biology, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA
2008 - 2014: Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
2007: Humboldt Research Fellow, MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
2005 - 2007: ARC Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2004 - 2005: UWA Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2001 - 2004: Research Associate, Biochemistry Department, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2000 - 2001: Research Assistant, Deakin University, Australia
2014 - 2018: ARC Future Fellow, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2014 - 2018: Guest Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
2008 - 2014: Director of Plant Systems Biology, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA
2008 - 2014: Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
2007: Humboldt Research Fellow, MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
2005 - 2007: ARC Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2004 - 2005: UWA Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2001 - 2004: Research Associate, Biochemistry Department, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2000 - 2001: Research Assistant, Deakin University, Australia
