Research Interest:

Signal transduction pathways in cyanobacteria

Selected Publications:

• Emlyn-Jones, Daniel., Mark K Ashby and Conrad W. Mullineaux. A gene required for the regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting in the cyanobacteria synechocystis 6803. Molecular Microbiology. 33 .5 (1999): 1050-58.
  
• Ashby, Mark K., and Conrad W. Mullineaux. Cyanobacterial Ycf27 gene products regulate energy transfer from phycobilisomes to photosystems I and II. FEMS Microbiology letters 181 .2 (1999): 253-60.
  
• Ashby, Mark K., and Conrad W. Mullineaux. The role of ApcD and ApcF in energy transfer from phycobilisomes to PS I and PS II in a cyanobacterium. Photosynthesis Reserarch 61 .2 (1999): 169-79.
  
• Ashby, Mark K., Jean Houmard, and Conrad W. Mullineaux. The Ycf27 gene from cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae: Distribution and implications for chloroplast evolution. FEMS Microbiology letters 214 .1 (2002): 25 -30.

Graduate students

• S. Budall
• N. Burnett
• S. Morrison