Mary J. Beilby Mary J. Beilby B.Sc., Ph.D. UNSW, MAIP, Grad. I study electrical properties of membranes surrounding living plant cells.
Many life processes involve moving ions in and out of the cell.
My new project investigates the role of some of these transporters play in the cell response to varying salinity of the outside medium. The patch clamp technique is also employed to measure single channel currents in the inner cell membrane, the tonoplast. Selected Publications Voltage dependence of the Chara proton pump revealed by current-voltage measurement during rapid metabolic blockade with cyanide. The effect of ATP removal and zero turgor. Accepted by J. Membrane Biol.