Dr. Lee T. Hickey
Contact details
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Room S503, Level 5, Hartley Teakle Building [#83]
The University of Queensland, Brisbane
QLD 4072 Australia
Work: +61 7 3365 4805
Mobile: +61 4 0821 0286
Fax: +61 7 3346 0539
Email: l.hickey@uq.edu.au
Website: http://www.qaafi.uq.edu.au/hickey
Twitter: @DrHikov
Education
2012: PhD in Quantitative and Molecular Plant Breeding, The University of Queensland
2012: Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation, The University of Queensland
2007: B.Agr Sc (Hons Class I), The University of Queensland
Research positions
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Research Fellow: Winter Cereal Pre-Breeder, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture
and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland (Nov 2012 – current)
PhD candidate, School of Agriculture and Food Science, The University of
Queensland (Jan 2007 – Jan 2012)
Biometrics Teaching Assistant, School of Land, Crop and Food Science, University
of Queensland (Mar 2008 – Jun 2009)
Maize Research Intern, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Dallas Center, IA,
USA) (Jun – Dec 2008)
Research Assistant, School of Land, Crop and Food Science, University of
Queensland (Feb – Jun 2008)
Research Technician, CSIRO, Plant Industry (Oct 2005 – Jun 2010)
Awards & Scholarships
Fresh Science National Finalist, 2013
Paul Johnston Memorial Award, 2013
Finalist for The University of Queensland UniQuest Trailblazer
Competition, 2011
School of Agriculture and Food Science Postgraduate Travel Award, 2011
The University of Queensland Graduate School Travel Award, 2010
Travel Scholarship from the Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and
Veterinary Science, 2010
Australian Postgraduate Award, 2008
Grains Research Top-Up Scholarship awarded by GRDC, 2008
Valedictorian for the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences and the
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Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science, The
University of Queensland, 2007
Bell Memorial Medal, 2007
Ben Brown Memorial Medal for Agricultural Science, 2007
Edwin Munro Scholarship in Agricultural Science, 2007
Student award to attend the 11th International Symposium on Pre-harvest
Sprouting in Cereals in Mendoza, Argentina, 2007
Undergraduate Honors Scholarship awarded by GRDC, 2007
Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement (Semesters 1 & 2 2006,
Semester 1 & 2 2007)
Year 12 Agricultural Science Medal for Ferny Grove State High School,
2002
Current research projects
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Validation of rapid gene transfer methodology in barley (UQ)
Delivery of wheat root traits that contribute to water limited yield stability (GRDC)
Barley Pre-Breeding for multiple disease resistance (GRDC)
Mining novel disease resistance genes in wheat landraces from the VIR (N I
Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry) collection (UQ)
Accelerating the utilisation and deployment of durable adult plant resistance to leaf
rust in barley (GRDC)
Resistance to pathogens (CSIRO)
Introgression of rust resistance and grain dormancy into backgrounds of four
Longreach elite wheat lines (Longreach)
Selected publications
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Hickey LT, Lawson W, Platz GJ, Fowler RA, Arief V, Dieters M, Germán S,
Fletcher S, Park RF, Singh D, Pereyra S, Franckowiak J (2012) Mapping
quantitative trait loci for partial resistance to powdery mildew in an Australian
barley population. Crop Science 52:1021–1032
Hickey LT, Lawson W, Arief VN, Fox G, Franckowiak J, Dieters MJ (2012) Grain
dormancy QTL identified in a doubled haploid barley population derived from two
non-dormant parents. Euphytica 188:113–122
Hickey LT, Lawson W, Platz GJ, Dieters M, Franckowiak J (2012) Origin of leaf
rust adult plant resistance gene Rph20 in barley. Genome 55:396–399
Hickey LT, Lawson W, Platz GJ, Dieters M, Arief VN, Germán S, Fletcher S, Park
RF, Singh D, Pereyra S, Franckowiak J (2011) Mapping Rph20: a gene conferring
adult plant resistance to Puccinia hordei in barley. Theoretical and Applied
Genetics 123:55–68
Hickey LT, Wilkinson PM, Knight CR, Godwin ID, Kravchuk OY, Aitken EAB,
Bansal UK, Bariana HS, DeLacy IH, Dieters MJ (2011) Rapid phenotyping for
adult plant resistance to stripe rust in wheat. Plant Breeding 131:54-61
Hickey LT, Dieters MJ, DeLacy IH, Christopher MJ, Kravchuk OY, Banks PM
(2010) Screening for grain dormancy in segregating generations of dormant × nondormant crosses in white-grained wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Euphytica 172:183195
Hickey LT, Dieters MJ, DeLacy IH, Kravchuk OY, Mares DJ, Banks PM (2009)
Grain dormancy in fixed lines of white-grained wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown
under controlled environmental conditions. Euphytica 168:303-310
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