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Pauline Stephenson Pauline is the Research Assistant of the lab. With her enthusiasm, overview and experience she keeps a tight lab and knows what everybody is doing. Pauline is the master mind behind our B. rapa TILLING population, and the quality of this population made all the hard work worth while. |
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Thomas Girin Thomas is a postdoc who joined the lab in October 2006. He is addressing fundamental questions regarding comparative tissue development between Arabidopsis and Brassica. He is also a ChIP champ and has identified several direct targets of IND. Finally, on Fridays he often exercises his talent as a bartender at the Happy Hour in the JIC Rec Centre. |
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Tom Wood Tom is continuing in the lab as a PhD student after finishing his MSc in October 2006. He is mainly interested in pod shatter and uses a synthetic B. napus population (POSH) to identify QTLs for shatter resistance. He is also studying natural variation in shattering in a range of Arabidopsis accessions.
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Sara Fuentes Sara rejoined the lab as a PhD student in October 2007 after a year of rotation. She is particular interested in the hormonal events that take place upon fruit initiation in Arabidopsis. At the moment she has also taken on the challenge of generating an EMS mutant population in the pi mutant background to screen for mutants with parthenocarpic development. |
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Evelyn Körner Like Sara, Evi joined JIC through the PhD rotation programme. After ten very productive weeks in the lab on a project addressing methyl halide production in plants, she decided to come back and continue this exciting study in June 2009. Her project is part of a collaboration with Prof. Bill Sturges at UEA, and we obtained funding from the Earth and Life Systems Alliance (ELSA). |
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Cassie Goldsack Cassie has been a Research assistant in the lab since June 2007 with a speciality in transforming B. rapa. B. rapa species are notoriously difficult to transform, but thanks to a collaboration with Dr. Penny Sparrow (funded by the Crop Science Initiative project, AdVaB), this is now (almost) routine. Cassie is still working to improve on efficiencies.
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Nicolas Arnaud Nicolas arrived in November 2007 and is a joint postdoc with Robert Sablowski. He aims to understand molecular mechanisms involved in the patterning of the fruit and decipher cis-regulatory code that controls this process. |
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Katrin Armeanu-D’Souza Katrin is an MSc student who is interested in the variation in methyl halide production among oilseed rape varieties. Katrin is a salinity expert by training, and is also testing the effect of NaCl treatment on methyl chloride emission from B. rapa. As for Evi, Katrin’s project is part of a collaboration with Prof. Bill Sturges at UEA. |
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Vicente Balanzá Vicente is a visiting PhD student from the lab of Cristina Ferrándiz in Valencia. Vicente will be here in July-August-September 2009, and he is interested in identifying downstream targets of FRUITFULL using ChIP (will be done in collaboration with Thomas), and he will also be doing confocal microscopy of PIN:GFP reporters in different mutant backgrounds. |
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Karim Sorefan Karim was the first postdoc in the lab (Oct. 05-March 09) and worked on auxin regulation of Arabidopsis fruit development. |
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Amandine Perez Amandine was a visiting student from Toulouse in June-September 2007. During this time, she worked on the B. rapa IND Orthologue (BraA.IND.a). |
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