Dr. Marten Moore is a Research Fellow in Prof. Barry Pogson's laboratory at the Australian National University, where he leads investigations into post-transcriptional regulation mechanisms governing plant stress responses. With dual Australian-German nationality, Dr. Moore completed his PhD under Prof. Karl-Josef Dietz at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, focusing on cellular signal transmission and transcriptional regulation during abiotic stress responses.

Since joining ANU in 2017, Dr. Moore has established himself as a researcher in translational control mechanisms, currently acting as chief investigator on the ARC Discovery Project: ’Regulators of protein translation reveal new pathways to plant productivity’. His research integrates fundamental cellular stress biology with cutting-edge synthetic biology approaches aimed at improving plant performance.

Dr. Moore's research program centers on understanding how plants rapidly communicate cellular stress information through retrograde signaling pathways, particularly focusing on translational control mechanisms. His team investigates the cellular "emergency signals" that chloroplasts send to coordinate cellular responses during light stress—a communication system his team termed TraDeRS (Translation-dependent Retrograde Signaling).

Current research integrates these cellular stress responses with synthetic biology approaches to develop novel regulatory elements that enhance photosynthetic efficiency and stress resilience in plants. This work is directly aimed at developing climate-resilient crops capable of maintaining productivity under increasingly challenging environmental conditions.

Key research areas include:

• Retrograde translational control during high light acclimation
• Synthetic biology applications for crop improvement
• Advanced imaging techniques for live-cell mRNA visualization
• High-throughput biotechnology tool development