Sanu Arora group

The focus of the Arora lab is to explore the natural diversity of the Pisum (pea) species for environmental resilience

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Janneke Balk group

The Balk lab explores how plants balance the uptake of iron with cellular and developmental demands

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Mark Banfield group

The Banfield lab explores the structure and function of intracellular disease resistance proteins, plant receptors which detect non-self molecules released by pathogens on infection

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Philippa Borrill group

The Borrill group focuses on understanding the wheat genome to improve the nutritional value of wheat grain

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James Brown group

James Brown’s group studies the evolution of plant diseases, especially fungal diseases of crops and trees

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Kelsey Byers group

The Byers Group studies the evolution and diversification of floral scent at a wide range of scales, from genus-wide evolutionary patterns (lots of species) to floral scent evolution of pairs of species with different pollination systems

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Phil Carella group

The Carella group’s research aims to better understand how the diversity of land plants defend against pathogen infection

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Myriam Charpentier group

The Charpentier group works on nuclear calcium signalling in plants and how these signals are produced in response to environmental and biological stimuli

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Enrico Coen group

The Coen lab combine molecular, genetic, imaging, population, ecological and computational approaches to investigate how small groups of cells in microscopic buds turn themselves into the diverse flower and leaf shapes we see around us

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Caroline Dean group

The Dean lab dissects mechanisms underlying epigenetic regulation of gene expression

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Yiliang Ding group

The Ding group investigates the role of RNA structure in gene regulation, such as translation, spicing and degradation

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Ray Dixon group

The Dixon group focuses on molecular understanding of biological nitrogen fixation in bacteria and its regulation in response to environmental cues

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Antony Dodd group

The Dodd lab investigates the adaptation of plants to fluctuating environments, focusing on circadian regulation and signal transduction

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Claire Domoney group

The Domoney group investigates the genetic basis for seed quality traits in legumes, using pea both as a research tool and as a crop which is important to UK agriculture

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Christine Faulkner group

Research in the Faulkner lab addresses how cell-to-cell communication in plants contributes to the initiation and execution of plant immune responses

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Dmitry Ghilarov group

Dmitry’s group is investigating protein molecular machines to discover, design and develop better antimicrobials

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Simon Griffiths group

The Griffiths group studies height and flowering time in bread wheat and the genes which control the interaction between these traits to influence yield

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Saskia Hogenhout group

Saskia’s group works on insect-plant interactions and insect-vectored bacterial plant pathogens using molecular biology, biochemistry and (functional) genomics tools

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Martin Howard group

The Howard group combines simple, predictive mathematical modelling with long-lasting experimental collaborations, to dissect complex biological phenomena

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Matt Hutchings group

Matt’s group works on the specialised metabolites made by Streptomyces species and closely related actinomycete bacteria, which include more than half of all known antibiotics

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Tung Le group

Tung Le’s group studies how the bacterial chromosome is organised spatially and segregated faithfully

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George Lomonossoff group

The Lomonossoff group uses nanotechnology to create virus-like particles which can be used for immune recognition and vaccine development

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Jacob Malone group

The Malone group investigates how bacterial signal transduction pathways respond to inputs from the environment, and how this in turn regulates bacterial behaviour

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Cathie Martin group

The Martin group works on biofortification and using plant metabolic engineering to enhance foods nutritionally

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Tony Maxwell group

The Maxwell lab investigates the structure and mechanism of DNA topoisomerases and associated proteins, with a particular emphasis on

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Tony Miller group

The Miller group investigates plant nitrogen content and how a balance between nitrate and ammonium is facilitated by nitrogen transporters to maintain pH within the cell

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Graham Moore group

The Moore group research aims to understand chromosome pairing within wheat and enable the incorporation of genes from wild relatives into the wheat genome

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Richard Morris group

The Morris lab are interested in how plants carry out this information processing to guide their responses to external challenges

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Laila Moubayidin group

The Moubayidin group aims to reveal the mechanism at the cellular, molecular and genetic level that determines organ symmetry in plants

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Paul Nicholson group

The focus of the Nicholson lab’s research is on investigating the genetic basis of resistance to a number of pathogens of wheat and barley

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Anne Osbourn group

The Osbourn group investigates plant natural product biosynthesis and a synthetic biology platform for rapid gram-scale production

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Lars Østergaard group

The Østergaard group investigates the genetic and hormonal regulation of fruit development in the Brassicaceae family

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Steve Penfield group

The Penfield group works to understand how weather and climate affect plant reproductive development and seed quality

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Robert Sablowski group

The Sablowski lab works on the genetics and cell biology of meristem and early organ development in the model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana and in related crop species

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Diane Saunders group

The Saunders group focuses on (re-)emerging plant pathogens that pose a significant threat to agriculture

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Susan Schlimpert group

The Schlimpert lab studies cell division and multicellular development in Streptomyces and related bacteria

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David Seung group

The Seung group aims to develop a full molecular understanding of how plants make starch

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Richard Smith group

The Richard Smith group's research uses mathematical and computer simulation techniques to investigate questions in plant development

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Andy Truman group

The Truman group is focused on biosynthesis of natural products, genome-led discovery of new natural products and understanding the role of natural products in nature

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Cristobal Uauy group

The Uauy lab is focused on using genetics and genomics to improve both yield and quality components in wheat

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Michael Webster group

The Webster group focuses on the molecular machines that express photosynthetic genes

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Barrie Wilkinson group

The Wilkinson group researches the discovery and biosynthesis of microbial natural products

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