People
Information:
Nicolas Arnaud
Nicolas obtained his PhD in 2007 from
the University of Montpellier (France) working on the regulation of the
expression of Arabidopsis
FER1 ferritin gene in response to iron. He is
currently working as a post-doc in the lab since November 2007. Nicolas aims to
understand molecular mechanisms involved in the patterning of the fruit and
decipher cis-regulatory code that controls this process.
Pauline Haleux
Pauline obtained her Msc from the
University of Rennes (France) in 2009, working on water stress signaling with Pr Rossitza Atanassova. She was inspired to do her PhD at the John
Innes Centre while working on Brassica transformation
with Dr Nathalie Nesi from the INRA. After a summer
project at JIC with Phil Wigge in 2008, she joined
the John Innes Centre Rotation PhD Programme in 2009 and decided to work on DNA
damage responses in plant stem cells.
Katharina Schiessl
Katharina studied Applied Plant
Science with focus on Molecular Plant Breeding at the Universitaet
fuer Bodenkultur in Vienna,
Austria. For her Masters thesis, Katharina aimed to identify candidate genes
that contribute to Fusarium resistance in bread wheat by
transcription profiling. Before starting her PhD in this group she took part in
the Erasmus Internship programme for ten months, working on Brachypodium distachyon transformation in the BRACHYTAG initiative
at John Innes Centre, Norwich. Katharina is interested in how postembryonic
organ development and organ growth is regulated in plants. For her PhD project
she is focussing on the transcription factor JAGGED that has previously been
identified to be a key regulator of cell division in lateral organs in
Arabidopsis.
Swathi Kausika
Swathi has done most
part of her earlier studies in India and has graduated from the University of
Bangalore, India with major in Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Genetics. She
then moved to the UK to pursue her post graduation at the University of East
Anglia in Sustainable Biotechnology and as a part of her Master’s thesis
programme, worked on 6-months Bio refinery and Bio fuel Project. Since
graduation, she has worked with Dr. Kay Denyer for
two months before joining our lab in Jan, 2010. She is
currently modelling the shape of early floral organs using confocal
imaging to understand how floral organ identity genes and their target genes
(e.g. JAGGED)
control growth and cell division.
Cristina Pignocchi
Cristina obtained her PhD at Rothamsted
Research, UK in 2002 investigating the role of redox
state in cell signalling in tobacco. After completing a postdoc
at Imperial College London, UK on cell cycle regulation in mammalian cells, she
joined Prof David Baulcombe in The Sainsbury
Laboratory, Norwich, UK to work on small RNAs in
Arabidopsis. In 2006 Cristina joined Prof Doonan’s
lab at John Innes Centre, Norwich UK as postdoctoral
scientist working on a novel microtubule-associated protein essential for seed
development in Arabidopsis. Since 2009 she has been studying the role of ribosomes and translation in plant development.
Tom Lawrenson:
Tom obtained his BSc (Hons.) in Botany from the University of Bristol in 1998.
Tom has joined us in June 1999 as a research assistant. Tom is currently
involved in projects on fruit and stem development. He also helps to run the
lab efficiently.
Robert Sablowski
Robert was educated mostly in Brazil (Bsc Biology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas; MSc in Biochemistry, Universidade de São Paulo). After obtaining his PhD at the
John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, in 1995, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher
in Elliot Meyerowitz's laboratory at the California Institute of
Technology (Pasadena, USA), then returned to the John Innes
Centre as a group leader in 1999. Robert has also been a visiting Professor at Leeds
University since 2007 and became Head of the Cell and Developmental Biology Department at
JIC in 2009.
While running the group, Robert still
spends a significant part of his time in the lab, where he is currently
participating in the floral organ modelling project.
For additional information, please
contact:
Dr. Robert Sablowski
Dept. Cell and Developmental Biology
John Innes Centre
Norwich NR4 7UH
United Kingdom
FAX 44-1603-450045