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Curriculum Vitae

• 1975 BSc, MSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Auckland , New Zealand
• 1979 PhD Biochemistry, Cambridge
• 1980 Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St Louis, MO
• 1983 Postdoctoral Researcher, Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge
• 1985 Project Leader, Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge
• 1990 Head of Molecular Genetics Dept, IPSR Norwich and John Innes Centre
• 1997 Professor, University of East Anglia
• 2001 elected to EMBO
• 2009 Associate Research Director, and Acting Director, John Innes Centre
• 2010 Strategic Programme Leader and Deputy Director, John Innes Centre

Mike Bevan

Programme Leader

Cell & Developmental Biology

Contact details

michael.bevan@jic.ac.uk

Research interests

The Bevan lab is investigating the molecular control of plant growth in response to the availability of nutrients such as carbohydrate and nitrogen. 

The final size of plants seeds and organs is set by the duration of cell proliferation, which sets the number of cells entering organogenesis, and cell expansion. Using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system we are analyzing genes that influence these processes at the cellular, organ and whole plant level in response to sugars and nitrate. We have identified a variety of genes, many of which are involved in transcriptional regulation, that affect cell expansion and cell proliferation in response to sugar and nitrate availability. The regulatory networks we have identified have potential for understanding how crop plant growth responds to fertilizer levels and influences yield.

We also focus on genome analysis of wheat, using next-generation sequencing, physical and genetic mapping and comparative genomics to identify and map wheat genes onto the genome. Good progress is being made in analyzing genes identified in whole genome sequencing and in physical mapping of chromosome 3DL.