Education:

1974

B.S. Horticulture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

1977

M.S. Horticulture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
Thesis title: Tissue culture of Peperomia caperata and Sansieveria trifasciata "Hahni".

1985

Ph.D. Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Thesis title: The isolation and characterization of a Ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit gene in soybean.

1985-1987

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1987-1990

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Botany, University of Georgia.

Research Interests:

I have always been interested in metabolic pathways localized in organelles of photosynthetic organisms. I have studied the small subunit of Rubisco, the enzyme that catalyzes the first step in the Calvin cycle in photosynthesis, several enzymes of the chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway, and more recently the mitochondrial uncoupling protein in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Although I do not conduct research in these fields, I am actively interested in bioethics and the global use of genetically modified plants. I am also the chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee at UCCS and the administrator of the Master of Sciences program in Biology.

Selected Publications:

1. Berry-Lowe, S.L., T.D. McKnight, D.M. Shah and R.B. Meagher (1982) The nucleotide sequence,expression and evolution of one member of a multigene family encoding the small subunit of Ribulose1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase in soybean. J.Mol. Appl. Genetics 1, 483-498
2. Berry-Lowe, S.L. and R.B. Meagher (1985) Transcriptional regulation of a gene encoding the small subunit of Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase in soybean tissue is linked to the phytochrome response. Molecular and Cellular Biology 5, 1910-1917.
3. Berry-Lowe, S.L., B. Grimm, M.A. Smith and C.G. Kannangara (1992) Purification and characterization of glutamate semialdehyde aminotransferase from barley expressed in E.coli. Plant Physiol. 99, 1597-1603.
4. M. K. Newell and S. L. Berry-Lowe, Patent 7105718 Issued 12 September 2006. Compositions and Methods for Regulating Metabolism in Plants
5. M.K. Newell, S. L. Berry-Lowe, R. Tobin and O. Triplett, patent filed 6 October 2010, 'Compositions and methods for promoting fatty acid production in plants'.