John Innes Centre

Prof Enrico Coen

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Curriculum Vitae

  • 1979 BA King
  • 1982 PhD Genetics Cambridge
  • 1982 SERC Postdoc Fellow, University of Cambridge
  • 1982 Research Fellow St John
  • 1984-present Project Leader John Innes Centre
  • 1999 John Innes Foundation Professor at JIC and UEA
  • 1997 Linnean Gold Medal
  • 1998 Fellow of the Royal Society
  • 2001 Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sci
  • 2004 Darwin Medal

Enrico Coen

Project Leader

Cell & Developmental Biology

Contact details

enrico.coen@bbsrc.ac.uk

Research interests

We wish to understand how diverse biological forms develop and evolve. A combination of molecular, genetic, imaging and modelling approaches are being used to understand how genes and growth interact to create specific shapes during development and how this is related to patterns of evolutionary diversity. We exploit Antirrhinum and Arabdidopsis as model systems to study problems such as flower shape and asymmetry, leaf shape and plant architecture. Expertise includes genetics, transposon-tagging, in situ hybridisation, 3D imaging, image analysis and computer modelling of shape and growth.

Selected Publications

Kim M., Cui M. L., Cubas P., Gillies A., Lee K., Chapman M. A., Abbott R. J., Coen E. (2008)
Regulatory genes control a key morphological and ecological trait transferred between species
Science 322 1116-1119

Recent Publications

Feng X., Wilson Y., Bowers J., Kennaway R., Bangham A., Hannah A., Coen E., Hudson A. (2009)
Evolution of allometry in Antirrhinum
The Plant Cell 21 2999-3007
Bensmihen S., Hanna A. I., Langlade N. B., Micol J. L., Bangham A., Coen E. (2008)
Mutational spaces for leaf shape and size
HFSP Journal 2 (2) 110-120