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Career Brief
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1990 - present |
Facility Co-ordinator, ANU Electron Microscopy Unit |
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1988 - 1990 |
Research Fellow in Developmental Neurobiology, RSBS, ANU |
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1983 - 1988 |
Visiting Fellow, Depts.of Developmental Biology, Neurobiology, RSBS, ANU |
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1984 - 1988 |
Senior Technical Officer, ANU Transmission Electron Microscopy Unit, RSBS, ANU |
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1981 - 1983 |
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, RSBS, ANU |
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Research Interests |
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Optics and physiology of invertebrate eyes |
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Structural colours in lepidoptera |
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EM cryotechniques |
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Variable pressure SEM |
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Cell biology of Photoreceptor membrane turnover |
Selected PublicationsStavenga DG, Stowe S, Siebke K, Zeil J,
Arikawa K (2004
) Butterfly wing colours: scale beads make pierid wings brighter. Proc
Roy Soc
B 271:1577-1584 Stange G, Stowe S, Chahl J, Massaro A (2002) Anisotropic Imaging in the dragonfly median ocellus: a matched filter for horizon detection. J Comp Physiol A:188:455-467 Stange S, Stowe S (1999) Carbon-dioxide sensing structures in terrestrial arthropods. Microsc. Research and Technique, 47:416-427 (invited review). Stowe SJ, Robinson VNE.(1998) The use of Helium gas to reduce beam scattering in high vapour pressure SEM applications. Scanning 20:57-60 Blest AD, Stowe S (1997) A phosholipase inhibitor, manoalide, and a G-protein activator, Mas-7, both affect the turnover of phototransductive membranes by crab retinas in darkness- with a model for the regulation of rhabdomeral membrane turnover. J Comp Physiol.A 180:347-355 Stange G, Munro J, Stowe S, Osmond CB (1995) The CO2-sense of the moth Cactoblastis cactorum and its probable role in the biological control of the CAM plant Opuntia stricta. Oecologia. 102:341-352 Blest AD, Stowe S, Carter M, O'Gara E, Delaney A (1992) Light-dependent endocytosis of crab rhabdomeral membrane potentiated by okadaic acid is reduced by either of two inhibitors of protein kinase C, or by a Ca2+-channel-blocking agent, diltiazem. J Comp Physiol A 171:523-53 Stowe S, Davis, DT (1990 ) Anti-actin immunoreactivity is retained in rhabdoms of Drosophila ninaC photoreceptors. Cell Tissue Res. 260:431-434 Stowe S, Fukudome H, Tanaka K (1986) Membrane turnover in crab photoreceptors studied by high resolution scanning electron microscopy and by a new technique of thick-section transmission electron microscopy. Cell Tissue Res.245:51-60 Stowe S (1983) Phagocytosis of rhabdomeral membrane at dawn in crab photoreceptors. Cell Tissue Res. 234:463-467 Stowe S (1983) Light-induced and spontaneous breakdown of the rhabdoms of a crab at dawn:depolarisation vs calcium levels. J.Comp.Physiol. 153:365-375 Stowe S (1983) A theoretical explanation of intensity-independent variation in polarisation sensitivity of Crustacean retinula cells. J.Comp.Physiol.A 153:435-441 Shaw SR, Stowe S (1982) Photoreception. Review chapter for: "The Biology of Crustacea" Vol III. Series editor, D.Bliss, volume editors, HL Atwood and DC Sandeman. Academic Press, New York. pp. 292-363 Shaw SR, Stowe S (1982) Freeze-fracture evidence for gap-junctions connecting the axon terminals of Dipteran photoreceptors. J.Cell Sci.53:115-141 Stowe S (1982) Rhabdom synthesis in isolated eyestalks and retinae of the crab Leptograpsus variegatus. J.Comp.Physiol.148:313-321 Blest AD, Stowe S, Eddey W (1982) A labile Ca2+-dependent cytoskeleton in the rhabdomeral photoreceptor microvillus. Cell Tissue Res. 223:553-573 Stowe S (1981) Effects of illumination changes on rhabdom synthesis in a crab. J.Comp.Physiol.142:19-25 Stowe S (1980) Spectral sensitivity and retinal pigment movement in the crab Leptograpsus variegatus.(Fabricius). J.Exp.Biol.87:73-98 Stowe S (1980) Rapid synthesis of photoreceptor membrane and assembly of new microvilli in a crab at dusk. Cell Tissue Res.211:419-440 .141:53-65 Stowe S (1977) The retina-lamina projection in the crab Leptograpsus variegatus. Cell Tissue Res. 185:515-525 .18:1087
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Website contact: stowe#rsbs.anu.edu.au .. Last revised July 2002.
