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5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Dr Adam Pellegrini. Research group . Ecosystem and Carbon Science Group. Research overview. My research leverages basic science to create a forward-looking research program that works with industry and

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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

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

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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.

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

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

5 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

5 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

5 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.

5 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

5 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

5 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.

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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"

5 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

5 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.

5 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

5 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).

5 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,

5 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

5 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

5 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

5 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"

5 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

5 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,

5 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

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Botany School building Grade 2 listed. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Wed, 19/07/2017 - 15:55. It was announced last week that our building - the Botany School has been listed by Historic England as Grade 2.

5 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

5 Jul 2024: The molecular changes to gene expression therefore require an amplification of pre-existing responses rather than evolution of new ones.

5 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Fri, 01/07/2016 - 09:14. This week Richard Smith-Unna from the Hibberd Lab features heavily in a Nature News article on the dirty

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Plant Sciences highly commended at Green Gown Awards. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Mon, 30/11/2015 - 10:17. Plant Sciences' project 'LEDing the way to greener plant growth' was honoured at the national

5 Jul 2024: Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 23/07/2019 - 15:52. Congratulations to Dr Giles Oldroyd, who has been elected as the new Russell R. ... As well as advancing crop science research at the University, Giles will help to lead the Crop Science Centre, and

5 Jul 2024: Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 12/05/2016 - 13:12. A new paper involving the Tanentzap group challenges the claim that mast seeding, which causes highly variable and synchronous ... New Phytologist. 210:419–430. Image. Snow tussock (Chionochloa

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year nomination. Submitted by Helen C. Scott on Thu, 11/02/2016 - 09:06. Congratulations to Dr Katharine Hubbard who until January this year was employed by the Department of

5 Jul 2024: The novel isoforms likely evolved new substrate specificities that allowed them to synthesise betalains from tyrosine precursors. ... The work is published in two linked papers in Molecular Biology and Evolution and the New Phytologist, and was funded by

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of Plant Sciences. Senior Academic Promotions 2020. Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 25/06/2020 - 10:36. We are delighted to be able to announce the following promotions from 1 October for members of our academic staff:.