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• Cell & Developmental Biology

Curriculum Vitae

• 1995 BSc, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
• 1997 MSc, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
• 2004 PhD (Genetics), University of Delhi, India
• Feb 2004 - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Delhi, India
• Jan 2006 - Postdoctoral Fellow, John Innes Centre, UK
• Sept 2011 - Project Leader, John Innes Centre, UK

Vinod Kumar

Project Leader

Cell & Developmental Biology

Contact details

Tel: +44 (0)1603 450235
vinod.kumar@jic.ac.uk

Research interests

The Kumar lab is a new research group in the Cell and Developmental Biology at the John Innes Centre studying how plants integrate environmental signals to mount an ecologically meaningful response. We are studying how environmental factors (e.g. temperature) affect plant-pathogen interactions. We seek to understand the molecular events that lead to defense gene activation and how environmental factors influence these.

Current projects include, but are not limited to:

(1) Mechanisms of gene regulation

(2) Environmental influence on plant defense responses

(3) Adaptation of gene regulatory mechanisms to local and dynamic environments

We use Arabidopsis thaliana as the discovery platform with a combination of genetics, molecular biology and biochemical approaches. We welcome enthusiastic and highly motivated researchers to join us in pursuing a novel area of research.