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28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Dr Jeongmin Choi. Research group . Research overview. My research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underpinning how nutrient signalling regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in crops. The long-term

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. New EMBO members elected. Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 13:32.

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Intranet. Department of Plant Sciences. Intranet. This it the intranet for the Department of Plant Sciences. You need to log in with Raven. If you don't have a Raven account see Reception. If you are

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Baulcombe to be new President of the Biochemical Society. ... His research into gene silencing and epigenetics has influenced scientists globally and his findings have opened new avenues in areas like HIV and

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Professor Uta Paszkowski. Research group . Research overview. The mutually beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most widespread association between roots of terrestrial plants and fungi

28 Jul 2024: Dr Lauren Gardiner has started as the new Curator of the Cambridge University Herbarium, part of the Department of Plant Sciences, based in the Sainsbury Laboratory. ... has field experience in Madagascar, Indonesia and New Guinea, India, Laos, Colombia,

28 Jul 2024: Plant Biology, EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Genome Biology, Journal of Experimental Botany, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, New Phytologist, Phytopathology, Plant Physiology, Proceedings of the National Academy, Science, Scientific Reports,

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Professor Samuel Brockington. Research group. Evolution and Diversity. Research overview. Our research is both comparative and integrative, combining systematics, morphology, development, molecular genetics,

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. A new and unexpected metabolic pathway that underpins seedling establishment. ... Collaborative research between scientists at theand the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology has led to the

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Professor Jim Haseloff. Research group. Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth. School or Biological Sciences theme affiliations. Organisms, Evolution and Ecology. Websites. Key publications:. See

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Undergraduate. Department of Plant Sciences. Undergraduate. Plant Sciences at undergraduate level. Plant Sciences is taught within the Natural Sciences Tripos, which is the framework through which the

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. South African “living stone” plant adapts to extreme conditions in new ways. ... This is the first time such physiological flexibility has been observed in Lithops, and offers new insight into how plants

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Professor Nik Cunniffe. Research Group . Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology. Research Overview. I focus on modelling the spread, detection, evolution and control of plant pests and pathogens. My

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. News from the Davies group.

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Professor Julia Davies. Researh group. Research overview. My group investigates the roles of transport proteins in adaptation, nutrition and growth. We are particularly interested in roots and how they sense

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. News from the Glover Lab. ... Other lab news. Katrina Alcorn - is runner-up for the Functional Ecology JBS Haldane Young Investigator's Prize.

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Major funding for new crop sciences research centre announced. ... The new centre will provide a major boost to the University’s existing research initiatives around global food security.

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Baulcombe to receive first McClintock Prize. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 20/12/2013 - 07:56. Athens, Ga. – Sir David C. Baulcombe, University of Cambridge, U.K., is the first recipient of the

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. David Coomes promoted to Reader. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 19/06/2013 - 09:10. David Baulcombe is pleased to announce that David Coomes has been promoted to Reader. Congratulations to David for

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Tim Rudge and Fernan Federici hit the headlines. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/06/2013 - 10:06. Tim Rudge and Fernan Federici have been noticed by Scientific American for their images of bacterial

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. To Paris in 24 hours. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 28/05/2013 - 13:15. On Saturday afternoon, twelve cyclists (including James Cox from Epidemiology - third from the left) arrived at the Eiffel Tower

28 Jul 2024: More information at the Guardian and the Cambridge News.

28 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 11/08/2017 - 08:02. A new paper by Andrew Tanentzap in PLoS Biology provides a primer to the global challenge of reconciling forest ... The paper specifically provides an overview of how the economic valuation of

28 Jul 2024: The lab will be in a brand new building, housing a mix of expertise that will be exciting in future collaborations with their group. ... University of Bristol new life sciences building.

28 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 01/10/2013 - 10:39. In the new journal eLife, Williams, Johnston, Covshoff and Hibberd report a new mathematical approach that provides a theoretical

28 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 13/10/2016 - 08:50. In 1966, fifty years ago, a new photosynthetic pathway was discovered by Hal Hatch and Roger Slack. ... Julian documents the discovery of this new photosynthetic pathway, and the wide–ranging

28 Jul 2024: Scott on Tue, 10/11/2015 - 11:36. The Department has received the sad news that Dr Patrick Echlin has died.

28 Jul 2024: BBC News: UK scientists speak about Brexit pain.

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Thinking like a bee. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 05/08/2015 - 10:02. Professor Beverley Glover was interviewed by the BBC's Farming Today programme, describing how thinking about bee behaviour can

28 Jul 2024: Scott on Wed, 05/03/2014 - 10:06. Our own Suzy Stoodley appears in the University's new book (The Meaning of Success: Insights from Women at Cambridge) celebrating successful female

28 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 01/04/2015 - 10:42. The Henderson laboratory has published new work in eLife investigating the effect of natural genetic diversity on the recombination ... Together this reveals a new and unexpected effect for genetic

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. University Lecturer/Botanic Garden Curator. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/11/2014 - 16:09. I am pleased to announce the the post of University Lecturer/Botanic Garden Curator has been offered to

28 Jul 2024: a new UK synthetic biology centre - OpenPlant - to focus on the development of open technologies in plant synthetic biology and their application in engineering new crop traits. ... The project will fast-forward the design of new plant traits. It takes

28 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 28/07/2014 - 09:03. New research from the Tanentzap group that has been published in the journal Biology Letters and is featured by ... Science Magazine and in the 23 July issue of New Scientist.

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Congratulations to Chris Gilligan and Jim Haseloff. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 15/06/2015 - 09:55. Chris Gilligan has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for "services to plant

28 Jul 2024: The plants are being translocated to a new glasshouse that they have built at Sevan in one of three botanic gardens in Armenia.

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Recombination hotspots in plants. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 23/09/2013 - 09:43. Ian Henderson and colleagues report in Nature Genetics the fine-scale mapping of recombination rates in Arabidopsis

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Graduate tales. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 10/03/2014 - 09:23. Four Postgraduate students (Greg Mellers; Meredith Murphy Westwood; Elinor Thompson and Kit Wilkins) have shared their stories of

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. It takes two to tango. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 30/05/2017 - 13:21. The NOPE1 gene is required for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in maize. The causal gene is now identified using rice. It is

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Promotions ahoy. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Tue, 17/06/2014 - 08:47. The following promotions have been approved by the General Board:. Reader. Professor. These promotions are recognition of individual

28 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 23/10/2015 - 10:06. The Henderson laboratory have published a new paper investigating epigenetic control of recombination hotspots. ... Recombination is a major tool for crop breeding and improvement, which creates new

28 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 07/11/2016 - 14:05. A new paper by Tanentzap & Lee published in New Phytologist shows how traits that influence the responses of species ... New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14167. Image. Study site in South Island, New

28 Jul 2024: Scott on Fri, 17/01/2014 - 10:27. New research published in Science reveals how a critical plant transcription factor has undergone radical evolutionary change in DNA binding specificity. ... This work reveals a new mechanism for transcription factor

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Lab taster day for sixth-form students. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 30/06/2017 - 10:05. On 28 July 2017 members of the Carr and Smith research groups and teaching hosted 36 sixth-form students from

28 Jul 2024: New approaches to pest and disease management are needed that take into account these multiple services and the different stakeholders they benefit, as well as the likelihood of greater threats in

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Research Day 2013. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 18/12/2013 - 13:53. Department of Plant Sciences Research Day 2013 brought thought provoking and enjoyable presentations by the heads of groups,

28 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Pioneering researcher in meiotic recombination is remembered. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 30/05/2014 - 14:21. Robin Holliday 1932 -2014. Robin Holliday is a remembered in an excellent obituary in

28 Jul 2024: Cambridgeshire. The interest is in a new paper published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which he jointly led with two Canadian research groups. ... News articles. Quick links. Find us. Contact us. Phone: 01223 333900.

28 Jul 2024: It paves the way for new understanding of patterning mechanisms in plants, and for Yoan's future plans to identify the mechanisms underpinning the diversification of moss architecture.

28 Jul 2024: Scott on Fri, 25/09/2015 - 15:22. A new paper by the Tanentzap group has been published in this month's issue of PLoS Biology. ... Image. Pivot irrigator transforming sensitive dry land ecosystems in South Island, New Zealand (credit: Peter Scott).