Postdoctoral Opportunities

This scheme provides travel bursaries for post-doctoral scientists to visit the John Innes Centre in order to discuss research opportunities.

Postdoctoral Opportunities Hosts and Topics

Host	Research Topics
Professor Mike Bevan	Growth control mechanisms and plant genomics
Professor Mervyn Bibb	Regulation and manipulation of secondary metabolism (including antibiotic production) in streptomycetes.
Dr Stephen Bornemann	Structure, function and engineering of enzymes involved in stress responses and starch synthesis.
Dr Margaret Boulton	The role of dwarfing genes in the tolerance of crops to environmental stresses.
Dr Lesley A Boyd	Genetics and mechanisms of adult plant resistance to yellow rust in wheat.
Dr James Brown	Population genetics of fungal diseases of cereals and genetics of durable resistance.
Dr Mark Buttner	Control of differentiation in Streptomyces; RNA polymerase and sigma factor function in Streptomyces; environmental stress responses in Streptomyces; transcriptomics.
Dr Mary Byrne	Genetic regulation of plant shoot architecture: meristem function and leaf patterning.
Professor Enrico Coen	Molecular genetic control of flower development and evolution.
Professor Caroline Dean	Molecular control of flowering time and vernalization response in Arabidopsis.
Dr Kay Denyer	Biochemical and genetic analysis of starch synthesis in cereal endosperms.
Dr Jo Dicks	The use of mathematical and computational techniques for the development of bioinformatics tools, to archive, visualise and analyse biological data, with particular emphasis on comparativegenomics.
Professor Ray Dixon	Signal transduction and transcriptional regulation in bacteria.
Dr Liam Dolan	Genetic analysis of root development with emphasis on the development of cell patterns and cell morphogenesis.
Dr Claire Domoney	The control of legume seed protein biosynthesis with emphasis on enzyme inhibitor protein families and elucidating their physiological roles in plants and animals.
Dr John Doonan	The control of legume seed protein biosynthesis with emphasis on enzyme inhibitor protein families and elucidating their physiological roles in plants and animals.
Professor Allan Downie	Analysing infection and initiation of nodule development in legumes by rhizobia. Understanding quorum sensing signalling events between bacteria in the rhizosphere.
Dr David Evans	Synthesis, structure and function of chemical analogues of enzyme active sites.
Professor Jonathan Jones	Understanding the mechanisms by which Cf- and RPP-plant disease resistance genes trigger defence responses.
Dr Stanislav Kopriva	Molecular mechanisms controlling plant nutrition.
Professor Chris Lamb	Genetic dissection of disease resistance signal pathways and defence mechanisms; Functional genomics of plant natural product biosynthesis.
Dr David Laurie	The isolation and characterisation of genes controlling flowering in cereals, particularly barley, with emphasis on homologues of genes that regulate the timing of flowering in Arabidopsis and rice.
Dr. David Lawson	X-ray crystallography of plant and microbial proteins including those involved in signalling, the nitrogen cycle pathways.
Professor Clive Lloyd	The cellular and molecular biology of multiple kinesins in Arabidopsis.
Dr Andy Maule	Exploring the molecular and structural interaction between viruses and their hosts.
Professor Tony Maxwell	DNA gyrase and DNA topoisomerase II: mechanism of action and drug targeting.
Dr Mike Merrick	Molecular, genetic and biochemical analysis of ammonium transporters. PII signal transduction proteins and the control of nitrogen metabolism.
Dr Graham Moore	Chromosome pairing and recombination in wheat and its relatives
Dr Richard Morris	Development and application of mathematical and computational techniques to describe, model and ultimately to predict the behaviour of biological systems.
Dr Paul Nicholson	Genetics and mechanisms of resistance or cereals to Fusarium and other pathogens.
Dr Annie Osbourn	Secondary metabolites and plant defence.
Dr Lars Ostergaard	Fruit development in Arabidopsis and Brassica; genomics tools in Brassica rapa.
Dr John Rathjen	Biochemistry of signal transduction in plant resistance to disease.
Dr Robert Sablowski	Cellular and molecular basis of meristem and floral organ development
Dr Ane Sesma	Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and fungal development in the cereal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea.
Dr Peter Shaw	Nuclear and chromosome architecture, the organisation of transcription and of RNA processing.
Professor Alison Smith	Post-genomic approaches to understanding the control of carbohydrate partitioning, in particular the synthesis and degradation of starch.
Dr Trevor Wang	Genetic approaches to understanding carbon partitioning and secondary metabolism in model legumes esp. Lotus japonicus.
Dr Philip Wigge	Signalling in plant development. Flowering time and temperature perception