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Joanna Melonek completed her Master’s thesis at August Cieszkowski Agricultural University in Poznan, Poland, before pursuing a PhD in the Plant Cell Biology group led by Professor Karin Krupinska in Kiel, Germany. Her PhD studies focused on characterizing DNA-protein complexes in chloroplasts, which she completed in 2011. In 2012, she relocated to Perth, Western Australia, to start postdoctoral work at the University of Western Australia within the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, supervised by Professor Ian Small. Afterward, Joanna shifted her research focus to plant mitochondria, particularly Restorer Fertility (Rf) proteins crucial for developing hybrid cultivars of cereals. In 2022, she was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and accepted a Senior Lecturer and Group Leader position in the Division of Plant Sciences at the Research School of Biology at ANU, relocating to Canberra in October 2023. Her research group employs molecular biology and computational methods to investigate mitochondrial-nuclear genome interactions in plants, focusing on breeding high-yielding, stress-resistant hybrid crops. Joanna's collaborations extend to several institutions and companies, including Groupe Limagrain and the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, contributing significantly to the field of plant genetics and hybrid breeding applications.
Australian National University • Canberra, Australia
Leads a research group focusing on plant genetics and hybrid breeding.
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