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Hire Dr. Joanne B.

South Africa

Profile Summary

Postdoctoral research fellow in the Plant Stress Laboratory in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town. My PhD work focused on the metabolomics of desiccation tolerance in a medicinal shrub. Part-time science and language editor.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Plant Physiology
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Metabolomics
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Metabolism & Metabolic Disease

Services

• Writing
• Consulting
• Product Development

Work Experience

Postdoctoral research fellow

University of Cape Town

July 2018 - Present

Science and language editor

Accdon LLC

July 2016 - Present

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular and Cell Biology

University of Cape Town

June 2014 - December 2017

Master of Science

University of Cape Town

January 2011 - December 2013

Bachelor of Science Honours

University of Cape Town

January 2010 - December 2010

Bachelor of Science

University of Cape Town

January 2006 - December 2009

Certifications

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Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2019). Metabolomic Profiling of the Desiccation-Tolerant Medicinal Shrub Myrothamnus flabellifolia Indicates Phenolic Variability Across Its Natural Habitat: Implications for Tea and Cosmetics Production .

(2019). Metabolomics as a complement to phylogenetics for assessing intraspecific boundaries in the desiccation-tolerant medicinal shrub Myrothamnus flabellifolia (Myrothamnaceae) .

(2018). Classification of the Relhania generic group (Asteraceae, gnaphalieae) revisited using molecular phylogenetic analysis . Phytotaxa. 344. (2). p. 101-132.

Bentley, J., Verboom, G.A., Bentley, J., Verboom, G.A., Bentley, J., Verboom, G.A., Bergh, N.G.(2017). Species-level phylogenetic analysis in the relhania clade of ?everlastings? and a new generic treatment of species previously assigned to Macowania and Arrowsmithia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) . Taxon. 66. (6). p. 1421-1438.

(2016). The rediscovery of the Great Winterberg endemic Lotononis harveyi B.-E. van Wyk after 147 years, and notes on the poorly known Amathole endemic Macowania revoluta Oliv. (southern Great Escarpment, South Africa) . PhytoKeys. 62. (1). p. 113-124.

Bentley, J., Klaassen, E.S., Bergh, N.G.(2015). Philyrophyllum (Asteraceae) transferred from Gnaphalieae to Athroismeae based on phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data . Taxon. 64. (5). p. 975-986.

(2015). A molecular physiological review of vegetative desiccation tolerance in the resurrection plant Xerophyta viscosa (Baker) . Planta. 242. (2). p. 407-426.

Bentley, J., Verboom, G.A., Bergh, N.G.(2014). Erosive processes after tectonic uplift stimulate vicariant and adaptive speciation: Evolution in an Afrotemperate-endemic paper daisy genus . BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14. (1).

BOOK CHAPTER

Farrant, J. M., Cooper, K., Dace, H. J., Bentley, J., & Hilgart, A. (2017). 9: Plant Desiccation Tolerance. In: Plant stress physiology.

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Bentley, J. (2017). Dating the dragon: how tectonic uplift shaped speciation in Drakensberg paper daisies. Veld & Flora, 103(2), 61-64.

Clark, R., Zikishe, V., Bentley, J., Dold, T., & Barker, N.