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14 Aug 2023: http://haseloff.plantsci.cam.ac.uk (note: these pages are suitable for direct printing) Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge.

14 Aug 2023: Teaching resources for courses on plant development and biotechnology. These pages contain information for a variety of different courses on plant development and biotechnology that are provided by Jim Haseloff at the University of Cambridge. They

14 Aug 2023: Cross-section of the Marchantia polymorpha thallus. Photosynthetic cells are enclosed within chambers below the upper epidermal surface of the thallus. Specialised cells form an air pore to facilitate gas exchange and limit water loss. The lower

14 Aug 2023: Resources to support work with plant systems. This section of the website contains links to various local resources that we have developed. Hopefully some may be directly useful, others for survey or to trigger plant-inspired ideas. OpenPlant is a

14 Aug 2023: Outreach activities. We play a major role in promoting accessible technologies for interdisciplinary activities, bringing biologists together with engineers, physical scientists and social scientists. These activities range from student-led

14 Aug 2023: Marchantia polymorpha. The liverworts (or Marchantiophyta) are descendants of the earliest terrestrial plants. The group is characterised by morphological simplicity, and this seems to be matched by simple underlying genome structures. Liverworts

14 Aug 2023: Liverwort hunting at the XIIIth Australian Bryophyte Workshop—Flinders Ranges and Adelaide, South Australia. The workshop was held near Quorn in the Flinders Ranges, in August 2016 and was followed by identification sessions and expert workshops

14 Aug 2023: Growth in soil. Marchantia polymorpha is a weed, and the plants are very easy to grow. We have experimented with a number of media and growth conditions. For very vigorous growth, we have used jiffy-7 pots, which are supplied as compressed dried peat

14 Aug 2023: Marchantia polymorpha has 9 chromosomes and a genome size of around 290MB. The dominant form is the haploid gametophyte. The plant is dioecious, with sex determined by segregating X and Y chromosomes. The Y chromosome has been sequenced recently

14 Aug 2023: Your Album (Click to Change). http://haseloff.plantsci.cam.ac.uk (note: these pages are suitable for direct printing) Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge.

14 Aug 2023: http://haseloff.plantsci.cam.ac.uk (note: these pages are suitable for direct printing) Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge.

14 Aug 2023: Biology will never be the same. The remarkable scientific success of biology in describing, explaining, and manipulating natural systems is so well recognized as to be a cliche—but the engineering application of that scientific knowledge is just

14 Aug 2023: Genomics, Epigenetics & Synthetic Biology. Part II Plant Sciences Module L1. Synthetic Biology: Prof. Jim Haseloff. Supplementary material:. Click here to find relevant papers as downloadable PDFs. Click here to find sample essay questions. Click

14 Aug 2023: Microscopy of GFP-expressing plant tissues. The major advantage of GFP is that it is intrinsically fluorescent, and the protein is be directly visible in living tissues where it is being expressed. There are many benefits to working with live samples

14 Aug 2023: Cambridge team for the iGEM2012 Synthetic Biology competition. Cambridge iGEM2012 team project. iGEM teams have characterised an array of biosensor components, but outputs are often inconsistent and, despite common assembly standards, it remains

14 Aug 2023: Macrophotography in the field. The documentation of liverworts in the field, growth room or laboratory can be a challenge. The small size of the plants means that plant features may need to be captured at sub-millimetre, almost cellular scales.

14 Aug 2023: The student team. Each year we recruit 6-12 undergraduate students to participate in the iGEM competition. The students work as an interdisciplinary team to construct an engineered biological system from DNA components, including design and

14 Aug 2023: Synthetic Biology Explained: Bridge8. Synthetic Biology: Overview - Victor de Lorenzo. Early Synthetic Biology talk: Tom Knight. E.O. Wilson: Synthetic Biology Will Radically Change the World. Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge.

14 Aug 2023: Cambridge iGEM2011 Bactiridescence project. Inventive constructions using BioBricks. Bioluminescence and the science of Christmas. Glowing trees could light up city streets. How 'bioluminescent' trees that glow like fireflies could one day replace

14 Aug 2023: Plant and microbial microscopy and visualisation. The last twenty years have seen a revolution in the application of optical techniques to the study of biological systems. This largely due to the development of highly specific fluorescent labelling