Caroline White

Caroline is a member of the Dodd group.

The Earth’s rotation produces daily and seasonal environmental changes that have driven the evolution of biological clocks across all kingdoms of life. A circadian clock is a free-running, temperature compensated, endogenous timer that is consistently entrained to a 24-hour cycle via recurring environmental cues, allowing optimal alignment of biological processes with the abiotic and biotic environment. Circadian rhythms also have an important role in the modulation of intra- and interspecific interactions.

Caroline is completing a PhD as part of the ERC MicroClock project, in collaboration with LMU Munich and Leiden University. Using the circadian clock models Arabidopsis and Bacillus, her current focus is investigation of the contribution of circadian rhythm interactions between organisms and how these interactions influence organismal fitness.