Dr Imogen Sparkes

Dr Imogen Sparkes
BA(Cantab.), MA(Cantab.), PhD(Leeds)

Senior Lecturer

Area of research

Organelle dynamics in plant cells

Office 2B19
Life Sciences Building,
24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 39 41211
i.sparkes@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

Organelle movement is a seemingly chaotic event in the vast majority of cell types which can be imaged in plants (such as epidermal and spongy mesophyll cells). Movement appears more ordered in ...

Biography

2017- present: Senior lecturer in cell biology, University of Bristol

2015 - 2017 : Senior lecturer in cell biology, University of Exeter

2012 - 2015: Cell Biology lecturer, University of Exeter

2009 - 2012 ...

Memberships

School of Biological Sciences

Research groups

Plant and Agricultural Sciences

Latest publications

Perico, C & Sparkes, I, 2018, ‘Plant organelle dynamics: cytoskeletal control and membrane contact sites’. New Phytologist, vol 220., pp. 381-394
Sparkes, I, White, RR, Coles, B, Botchway, SW & Ward, A, 2018, ‘Using Optical Tweezers Combined with Total Internal Reflection Microscopy to Study Interactions Between the ER and Golgi in Plant Cells’. in: Chris Hawes, Verena Kriechbaumer (eds) The Plant Endoplasmic Reticulum: Methods and Protocols. Humana Press, pp. 167-178

School of Biological Sciences

Dr Imogen Sparkes