Ute Roessner

Professor Ute Roessner AM FAA (born 1971) is a biochemist who specialises in plant metabolomics. Until 2022, she has been professor and head of the School of Biosciences at the University of Melbourne. In 2022, she joined The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

Ute Roessner

AM FAA
Born1971
NationalityAustralian, German
EducationUniversity of Potsdam, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiogy
Employer(s)University of Melbourne
Australian National University
Known forPlant metabolomics
TitleProfessor

Early life and career

Roessner received a Diploma in Biochemistry, from the University of Potsdam and the John Innes Institute in Norwich, in the UK. She then was awarded a PhD in Plant Biochemistry, from the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Germany.

Her career involves conducting work in metabolomics, biochemistry and lipidomics, as well as mass spectrometry. Roessner played a role in establishing a metabolomics platform research in 2003, within the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, and also in 2007, in Metabolomics Australia.[1]

Roessner's research has received media attention, from her early life in East Berlin, regarding the Berlin Wall coming down,[2] as well as a Nature paper on the genome of Chenopodium quinoa [3] and research on insecticides, showing low doses of insecticides can reduce insect survival rates.[4] Roessner was also involved in research on how invasive fungal diseases, which can be life-threatening, can be able to adapt and then survive within human populations.[4]

Roessner's research has involved using mass spectrometry to understand spatial metabolite and the analysis of lipids, to further understanding of the metabolism of roots under saline stress. Roessner has been awarded funding for mass spectrometry research on lipids, metabolites and proteins in plants.[5] She has been head of school, Biosciences at the University of Melbourne, between 2018 and 2022.[6]

In 2021 Roessner was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia the Queen's Birthday Honours for "significant service to tertiary education, particularly to the biosciences".[7] She was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women as a Trailblazer in 2021[8] and elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022.[9]

Prizes and awards
Prizes and awards
Year Award
2013 Australian Research Council Future Fellow[10]
2021 Member of the Order of Australia[10]
2021 Victorian Honour Roll of Women[10]
2022 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science[9]

References
  1. "Roessner Lab". Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  2. Vilisoni Wilson, Lito (8 November 2019). "When the Wall came down". Pursuit. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  3. Jarvis, David E.; Ho, Yung Shwen; Lightfoot, Damien J.; Schmöckel, Sandra M.; Li, Bo; Borm, Theo J. A.; Ohyanagi, Hajime; Mineta, Katsuhiko; Michell, Craig T.; Saber, Noha; Kharbatia, Najeh M. (February 2017). "The genome of Chenopodium quinoa". Nature. 542 (7641): 307–312. Bibcode:2017Natur.542..307J. doi:10.1038/nature21370. hdl:10754/622874. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 28178233. S2CID 4447822.
  4. "'Insect Armageddon': Low doses of the insecticide, Imidacloprid, cause blindness in insects: Findings show even small doses of insecticides reduce capacity of insects to survive". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  5. "Vanderbilt and University of Melbourne fund $344,000 in joint research projects". Vanderbilt University. 9 November 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  6. "Professor Ute Roessner AM". ARC Research Hub for Smart Fertilisers. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  7. "Professor Ute Roessner". It's an Honour. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  8. "Victorian Honour Roll of women inductees". www.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  9. "Academy announces 2022 Fellows for outstanding contributions to science". Australian Academy of Science. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  10. Smith, Katherine (24 June 2021). "Australian Honours". About us. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
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