Katherine J. Denby

Katherine J. Denby
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Scientific career
Fields	Plant science; plant pathology
Institutions	University of York
Thesis	Metabolic regulation of glyoxylate cycle gene expression in higher plants.  (1994)

Katherine J. Denby works at University of York, UK on plant resistance to disease .

Early life

Katherine J. Denby was awarded a B.Sc. in microbiology from the University of Bristol. She then undertook research in plant science at University of Oxford and was awarded a doctorate in 1994.

Scientific career

Denby is a professor at University of York in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products. Her research uses a wide range molecular and large-data approaches to understanding plant-pathogen interactions, in both the field and more controlled conditions like vertical farming.

She became editor-in-chief of The Plant Journal from January 2024.

Publications

Denby is the author or co-author of over 50 scientific publications. These include:

• Aled Jones, Sarah Bridle, Katherine Denby and 38 others (2023) Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation. Sustainability 15 issue 20
• Emily Breeze, Elizabeth Harrison, Stuart McHattie ... Katherine Denby and 21 others. (2011) High-resolution temporal profiling of transcripts during Arabidopsis leaf senescence reveals a distinct chronology of processes and regulation. The Plant Cell 23 pp 873–894.
• Daniel J Kliebenstein, Heather C Rowe and Katherine J Denby (2005) Secondary metabolites influence Arabidopsis/Botrytis interactions: variation in host production and pathogen sensitivity. The Plant Journal 44 pp 25–36.
• Ian A Graham, Katherine J Denby and Christopher J Leaver (1994) Carbon catabolite repression regulates glyoxylate cycle gene expression in cucumber. The Plant Cell 6 pp 761–772.