Nick Fulcher

Nick graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2006 with a degree in biological sciences. Nick joined the lab in 2007 to study the effects of DNA damage on the Arabidopsis root meristem. After obtaining his PhD in October 2010, Nick started his postdoctoral work in Karel Riha’s lab at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna.

Leonardo Alves Jr.

After graduating in Biology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, Leonardo obtained a Master's degree in Genetics at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He then obtained his PhD from the Graduate School of Bioinformatics and Genome Researchat Bielefeld University, Germany, working on miRNA function in Arabidopsis. Leonardo joined the lab from June 2008 to work on modelling the effect of regulatory genes on floral organ growth, and left in December 2009 to take a position at Metanomics Health GmbH, Germany.

Gerardo Acosta-García (August 2005-August2008)

Gerardo graduated as a Biochemistry Engineer (Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya in Mexico). During his PhD studies at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados in Irapuato, México, he worked on the identification and characterisation of female gametophyte mutants in Arabidopsis.

Gerardo joined the group in August 2005 as Marie-Curie fellow, working on identifying genes and functions controlled by AG and how they are selected in vivo. After his postdoc at JIC, Gerardo returned to Mexico as a "Profesor Investigador" at the Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya.

Concepción Gómez-Mena (Ocober 2001-September 2007)

Concha obtained her degree in Biology at Universidad Autónomade Madrid in 1992. In1995 she received her MSc working in Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (Madrid). Her PhD project involved the identification and characterization of early floweringmutants of Arabidopsis and was developed in both Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias and Centro Nacional de Biotecnología graduating in 1999.

Concha joined the group in October 2001 to work on genes regulated by AGAMOUS during floral organ development, initially with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science, then with an European Union Marie-Curie fellowship and finally paid by a BBSRC responsive grant. After her postdoc here, Concha moved back to Spain with a 5 year Ramon y Cajal fellowship at the Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas, University of Valencia.

Mar Castellano (November 2003 - April 2007)

Mar graduated in chemistry at Universidad Autónomade Madrid. In 2001she received her PhD working at the Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa” (Madrid) on the regulation of DNA replication in Arabidopsis. Mar joined the lab initially as an EMBO fellow in November 2003 and later as a Marie-Curie fellow to work on the identity and maintenance of stem cells in the shoot meristem. After her postdoc at JIC, Mar returned to Spain with a 5 year Ramon y Cajal fellowship at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas in Madrid, and subsequently obtained a permanent position as a researcher at CNB.

Fabiana Nora (October 2001 to September 2006)

Fabiana obtained her degree in Agronomy in 1998 and her MSc in 2000, at Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Brazil).For her master’s degree she worked on transformation and regeneration conditions of melon (Cucumismelo L.). In 2001 Fabiana joined the group, funded by a PhD studentship from CNPq (Brazilian government) to work on genes that modify SHOOTMERISTEMLESS (STM) function. She obtained her PhD degree in 2005 and moved back to Brazil.

Silvia Gazzani (June 2003 to September 2004)

Silvia graduated in biology in 1998, at The Università degli Studi di Parma. She completed her PhD at the John Innes Centre, UK, on the control of flowering time in Arabidopsis. Silvia joined the group as a BBSRC-funded post-doctoral fellow, to work on mutants that suppress the phenotype caused by ectopic SHOOT MERISTEMLESS and subsequently moved to an industry position in Italy.

Jean-Luc Gallois (July 2000 to November 2003):

Jean-Luc obtained his PhD in 2000, working on chloroplast differentiation at the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France).He became a postdoctoral fellow in our lab in June 2000 to work on the function of NAC genes and on meristem development. After completing his postdoc, Jean-Luc moved to a permanent position as Charge de Recherche at the INRA, France.

Denis Headon (September 2001 to November 2002)

Denis received his BSc from University College Dublin in1996. For his Ph.D. he worked on mouse skin development at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas), and graduated in 2001. Denis joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2001, and worked on the role of the SHOOTMERISTEMLESS in Arabidopsis development. At the end of 2002, Denis started his own group as a Lecturer at Manchester University.

Claire Woodward (October 1999 to December 2002):

Claire obtained her BSc (Hons.) in Plant Science at Wye College, University of London, in July 1999. Claire joined the lab in October 1999 as a PhD student, to work on genes controlled by SHOOTMERITEMLESS during meristem establishment in Arabidopsis. After completing her PhD in our lab, Claire joined Keiko Torii’s group (Seattle, USA) as a postdoctoral fellow.

Carla Schommer (January 1999 to April 2002):

Carla joined our lab after studying biology at the University of Cologne and writing her Diplomarbeit at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Zuechtungsforschung, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jeff Schell. After obtaining her PhD in our lab, Carla moved to a postdoctoral position at Detlef Weigel’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen.

Manuela Costa (March 2001 to April 2002):

Manuela obtained her PhD at the John Innes Centre, UK, working on flowering time in Arabidopsis. She joined our lab with a post-doctoral fellowship from the Portuguese government, to work on AGAMOUS target genes, and subsequently moved to a postdoctoral position at Enrico Coen’s lab (JIC, UK), to work on floral symmetry, before moving back to Portugal as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minho.