Dr. Kawinnat Sue-Ob
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EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK.
• M.Sc. in Biochemistry, Mahidol University, Thailand
• B.Sc. with First Class Honors in Biological Science, Silpakorn University, Thailand

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Bioinformatics and system biology
• Gene regulation and epigenetics in plants
• Plant genomics
• Crop improvement

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
Part-time Data Scientist (March – December 2023) at Computational Biology Facility, University of Liverpool

• Gene identification in model organisms using bioinformatic approaches
• Proteomic analysis
• Website administration and design

PhD research title: Profiling the SUMOylation machinery in Asian cultivated rice and its role in abiotic stress responses (Prof. Drs. Andy Jones, University of Liverpool and co-supervisor Ari Sadanandom, Durham University).

• Transcriptomics analyses
• Identification of genes in plants (Arabidopsis and crops i.e. rice)
• Experiments at Durham University (4 months)

M.Sc. research title: Molecular mechanism Arabidopsis thaliana under high ambient temperature (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Varodom Charoensawan)

• Analyzed, compared and visualized ~100 transcriptomic data of Arabidopsis thaliana.

B.Sc. research title: Temperature effects and 2-step cultivation on biomass production and carotenoid accumulation in green microalga Scenedesmus PY215 (Assist. Prof. Dr. Thanyanan Wannathong Brocklehurst)

• Identified a new isolated microalga (morphology/molecular)
• Optimized culture conditions to obtain more carotenoid yield from the microalga.

PUBLICATIONS

• Kawinnat Sue-ob, Cunjin Zhang, Rahul Bhosale, Ari Sadanandom, and Andrew R Jones. Ubiquitin-like SUMO protease expansion in rice (Oryza sativa), submitted to a journal.
• Ghosh, S., Mellado Sanchez, M., Sue-Ob, K., Roy, D., Jones, A., Blazquez, M. A., & Sadanandom, A. (2024). Charting the evolutionary path of the SUMO modification system in plants reveals molecular hardwiring of development to stress adaptation. The Plant Cell, 36(9), 3131-3144.
• Mukkawar, V., Roy, D., Sue-Ob, K., Jones, A., Zhang, C., Kumar Bhagat, P., … & Sadanandom, A. (2024). SUMOylation of OsPSTOL1 is essential for regulating phosphate starvation responses in rice and Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15, 1274610.
• Clark, L., Sue-Ob, K., Mukkawar, V., Jones, A. R., & Sadanandom, A. (2022). Understanding SUMO-mediated adaptive responses in plants to improve crop productivity. Essays in biochemistry, 66(2), 155-168.
• Sue-ob, K., Sriden N., Cortijo S., Box MS., Wigge PA., and Charoensawan V. (2020). Roles of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR 4 (PIF4) in response to high ambient temperature of Arabidopsis thaliana hybrid (C24xCol). Proceeding in The 15th International Symposium of the Protein Society of Thailand. 237-245
• Sue-Ob, K, Brocklehurst TW. (2018). Temperature effect and two-step cultivation on biomass production and carotenoid accumulation in green microalga Scenedesmus PY215. KKU Science Journal. 2018;47(2):243- 56.
• Roy, D., Mehra, P., Clark, L., Mukkawar, V., Bellande, K., Martin-Arevalillo, R., Ghosh, S., Ingole, K. D., Bhagat,P. K., Brown, A., Sue-ob, K., Jones, A., Vermeer, J. E. M., Vernoux, T., Lilley, K., Mullineaux, P., Bechtold, U., Bennett, M. J., & Sadanandom, A. Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses. Science, 0(0), eadu1470. https://doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.adu1470
• Bruno Contreras-Moreira, Eshan Sharma, Shradha Saraf, Guy Naamati, Parul Gupta, Justin Elser, Dmytro Chebotarov, Kapeel Chougule, Zhenyuan Lu, Sharon Wei, Andrew Olson, Ian Tsang, Disha Lodha, Yong Zhou, Zhichao Yu, Wen Zhao, Jianwei Zhang, Sandeep Amberkar, Kawinnat Sue-Ob, Maria Martin, Kenneth L McNally, Doreen Ware, Zhi Sun, Eric W Deutsch, Dario Copetti, Rod A Wing, Pankaj Jaiswal, Sarah Dyer, Andrew R Jones (2025). A pan-gene catalogue of Asian cultivated rice. bioRxiv.
• Jason Banda, Shraboni Ghosh, Dipan Roy, Kishor D. Ingole, Lisa Clark, Eshan Sharma, Sumesh Kakkunath, Kawinnat Sue-ob, Rahul Bhosale, Leah Band, Srayan Ghosh, Darren Wells, Jonathan Atkinson, Malcolm J. Bennett , Kathryn Lilley, Andrew Jones, Miguel De Lucas, Anthony Bishopp and Ari Sadanandom (2025). Elucidating tissue and sub-cellular specificity of the entire SUMO network reveals how stress responses are fine-tuned in a eukaryote. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.08.647708 2025-04. – accepted to publish in Science Advance