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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James Brown group
James Brown’s group studies the evolution of plant diseases, especially fungal diseases of crops and trees
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Mark Buttner group
Research in the Buttner lab focuses on the biological processes underpinning Streptomyces sporulation, the master regulators that control these processes, and the regulatory networks that link them
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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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Xiaoqi Feng group
The Feng group investigates epigenetic reprogramming in plant germlines
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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
Research in the Hogenhout group spans (functional) genomics, molecular genetics, entomology, plant pathology, virology, bacteriology, population biology and mechanistic modelling
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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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Dale Sanders group
The Sanders group explores the transport of ions across plant cell membranes and the roles of ions in signalling and nutrient status
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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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Alison Smith group
The Smith group investigates the genetic, biochemical and molecular control of starch degradation in leaves and storage organs, and how this is coordinated with plant growth
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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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Barrie Wilkinson group
The Wilkinson group researches the discovery and biosynthesis of microbial natural products
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Brande Wulff group
The Wulff group explores the genetics of disease resistance in wheat and how microbial effector proteins, their host targets, and plant immune receptors co-evolve
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Daniel Zilberman group
The Zilberman group studies cytosine methylation as a mechanism for epigenetic inheritance
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