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27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

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

27 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

27 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.

27 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.

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

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

27 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

27 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.

27 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

27 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

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

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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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.

27 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

27 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.

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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

27 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.

27 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.

27 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).

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Botanic gardens 'key to saving plants'. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 27/09/2017 - 08:43. A paper from the Brockington Lab published in Nature Plants has quantified how much diversity is conserved

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Science Festival 2015. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 20/03/2015 - 10:41. The Science Festival event on Saturday 14th March was a real success thanks to everyone who volunteered from the Department of

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Measuring crossovers with fluorescent pollen. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 11/10/2013 - 09:18. The Henderson laboratory have published a paper in Nature Protocols describing measurement of crossover

27 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 15/01/2019 - 10:52. Exciting new research from the Paszkowski lab has been published in Nature Communications Roth et al, 2019 reporting the identification of ... Roth et al thereby define a new plant-controlled stage

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plant Sciences receives Green Impact Silver Award. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 12/06/2015 - 14:24. Last Wednesday, Martin Howes, Colin Denston and Simon West attended the Green Impact awards ceremony

27 Jul 2024: Nothing new there, you might think. But two papers published recently by Nick Owen and Chandra Bellasio, postgrads in the Physiological Ecology Group, have both attracted editorial commentaries in their respective ... journals. Annie Borland and Xiaohan

27 Jul 2024: Using these new approaches, the lab investigated how distantly related plants use homologous genes to control the complex trait known as C. ... 4. photosynthesis. This new research showed that the same key control genes known as "transcription factors"

27 Jul 2024: Scott on Fri, 13/02/2015 - 11:49. The Department is saddened and shocked by the news of the death of Professor Oliver Rackham OBE, FBA. ... th. volume in the Collins New Naturalist series ("Woodlands"). Most recently he produced a volume on "The Ash Tree"

27 Jul 2024: A new article, written by Jacqueline Garget for Research Horizons magazine, outlines the complex issues facing the adequate supply of nutritious food in one of the world’s most populous countries, ... Partners in Cambridge and India will work together,

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Sixth formers explore plant sciences at Cambridge. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 01/07/2015 - 14:27. On 30. th. June, Plant Sciences welcomed 23 lower sixth students to the Teaching Lab as part of the