Catherine Nock BSc (UNSW), MSc, PhD (SCU) Cathy is Laboratory Manager, Southern Cross Plant Science and manages the the Centre’s genetics laboratories and plant propagation facilities, including physical containment (PC2) and quarantine-certified genetics and tissue culture laboratories and glasshouses. Following undergraduate studies at UNSW in biology, she worked for several years in palaeontology before relocating to the north coast. She attained an MSc on the molecular evolution of Australia's elapid snakes and a PhD in conservation genetics. Main interests include evolution, phylogenetics, DNA barcoding and population genetics of Australian species. Current research is focused on the application of next generation sequencing to the identification of plant species and varieties.
Journal articles
Application of large-scale sequencing to marker discovery in plants (with Robert J. Henry, Mark Edwards, Daniel LE Waters, Gopala Krishnan S, Peter Bundock, Timothy R. Sexton, Ardashir K. Masouley, and Julie Pattemore), Journal of Biosciences (2012)
Advances in DNA sequencing provide tools for efficient large-scale discovery of markers for use in...
Chloroplast genome sequence confirms distinctness of Australian and Asian wild rice (with Daniel LE Waters, Ryuji Ishikawa, Nicole Rice, and Robert J. Henry), Ecology and Evolution (2012)
Chloroplast genome sequences from total DNA for plant identification (with Daniel LE Waters, Mark A. Edwards, Stirling G. Bowen, Nicole Rice, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, and Robert J. Henry), Plant Biotechnology Journal (2011)
Chloroplast DNA sequence data are a versatile tool for plant identification or barcoding and establishing...
Population structure, effective population size and adverse effects of stocking in the endangered Australian eastern freshwater cod Maccullochella ikei (with Jennifer R. Ovenden, Gavin L. Butler, Ian Wooden, Anthony Moore, and Peter R. Baverstock), Journal of Fish Biology (2011)
Microsatellite markers were used to examine spatio-temporal genetic variation in the endangered eastern freshwater cod...
Phylogenetics and revised taxonomy of the Australian freshwater cod genus, Maccullochella (Percichthyidae) (with Martin S. Elphinstone, Stuart J. Rowland, and Peter R. Baverstock), Marine and Freshwater Research (2010)
Determining the phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships among allopatric populations can be difficult, especially when divergence...
Theses
Conservation genetics of the endangered eastern freshwater cod, Maccullochella ikei, PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW (2010)
Fragmentation over evolutionary time scales following vicariant and dispersal events has long been recognised as...
Molecular phylogenetics of the Australian elapid snakes: (Serpentes: Elapidae, Hydrophiinae), MSc thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW (2001)
Evolutionary relationships within the Elapidae have been examined using a wide range of morphological and...
Conference proceedings
Chloroplast genome sequence indicates Australian wild rice represents a source of diversity for rice improvement (with Robert J. Henry, Daniel LE Waters, Nicole Rice, Stirling G. Bowen, and R Ishikawa), Plant and Animal Genome XIX Conference (2011)
Rice (Oryza sativa Japonica) was probably domesticated from wild populations of Oryza rufipogon in Asia....
Plant DNA barcoding using chloroplast genome sequences (with Daniel LE Waters, Mervyn Shepherd, Peter C. Bundock, and Robert J. Henry), XVIII International Botanical Congress (2011)
Chloroplast DNA sequence data have played a critical role in the development of plant DNA...
Whole organelle genomes from total plant DNA sequencing (with Daniel LE Waters, Mervyn Shepherd, Peter C. Bundock, and Robert J. Henry), Southern Cross Plant Science research papers (2011)
Short gun sequencing of whole plant DNA preparations provides short reads that includes good coverage...
Whole genome sequence (WGS) analysis for exploring plant relationships (with Nicole F. Rice, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Daniel LE Waters, Stirling Bowen, and Robert J. Henry), Plant and Animal Genomes XVIII Conference (2010)
Shotgun sequencing plant genomic DNA preparations generates large quantities of sequence data in a single...