Janine Cooney, Ph.D.

Dr Janine Cooney is a chemist with Plant & Food Research's Biological Chemistry and Bioactives Group, and leads the Nutrigenomics Team. She is also head of Plant & Food's LCMS analytical and research facility. Janine's research focuses on developing and applying mass-spectrometry based methods for the comprehensive analysis of small molecules and proteins in complex biological systems. Within Nutrigenomics New Zealand Janine is the scientist responsible for proteomics research. 

Laing WA, Wright MA, Cooney J, Bulley SM 2007. The missing step of the L-galactose pathway of ascorbate biosynthesis in plants, an L-galactose guanyltransferase, increases leaf ascorbate content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(22): 9534-9539.

Laing, W., Bulley, S., Wright, M., Cooney, J., Jensen, J., Barraclough, D. and MacRae, E. 2004: A highly specific L-Galactose-1-Phosphate phosphatase on the path to ascorbate biosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 101, 16976-16981.

Blumenstein, M.; McMaster, M.T.; Black, M.A.; Wu, S.; Cooney, J,; McCowan, L.M.E.; Cooper, G.J.S.; North, R.A. 2009. A proteomic approach identifies early pregnancy biomarkers for preeclampsia: novel linkages between a predisposition to preeclampsia and cardiovascular disease. Proteomics  9, 1-17.

Nieuwenhuizen, N.J.; Beuning, L.L.; Sutherland, P.W.; Sharma, N.N.; Cooney, J.M.; Bieleski, L.R.F.; Schröder, R.; MacRae, E.A. and Atkinson, R.G. 2007: Identification and characterisation of acidic and novel basic forms of actinidin, the highly abundant cysteine protease from kiwifruit. Functional Plant Biology 34, 946-961.

Cooney, J.M., Jensen, D.J. and McGhie, T.K. 2004: LC-MS Identification of Anthocyanins in Boysenberry Extract and Anthocyanin Metabolites in Human Urine Following Dosing. J. Sci. Food Agric. 84, 237-245.

Rowan,D.; Hunt, M.; Austin, A.; Norling, C.; Cooney, J.; Jensen, D.; Lin-Wang, K.; Hellens, R.; Schaffer, R.; Allan, A. 2009: Environmental regulation of leaf colour in red 35S:PAP1 Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist, 182, 1, 102-115.