Emilie Knight

Emilie works as a Research Assistant within the Borrill group. Her role is to ensure the smooth running of the lab, whilst also carrying out her own project(s).

She is currently adapting a method used in Arabidopsis thaliana to wheat, using protoplasts as a means of identifying direct targets of transcription factors in vivo. She is also involved in a project investigating iron metabolism in the wheat grain.

Prior to joining the Borrill group, Emilie worked on various projects and plant species over seventeen years at the John Innes Centre. Notably, in Prof. Graham Moore’s group, she carried out projects on the PH1 locus and the KR1 crossability locus in wheat, and on the Gametocidal genes from the wild relative Aegilops sharonensis.