Welcome (back) to new MRes student Nicole, who has now started her MRes with Sam on understanding solar parks impact photosynthesis in grasses growing under solar panels. Nicole is a returning alumni having previously done her dissertation with the group, contributing to this paper on cowpea. Welcome back Nicole!
A big Lancaster welcome to Dr Emma Raven, who has just joined to work on the RIPE project as a postdoc with Elizabete and Doug. Emma recently finished her PhD at the John Innes Centre, and will be working with us on Improving Rubisco regulation in cowpea and soybean.
[Update] Thanks to everyone who got in touch and applied, this round closed on Jan 6th. We hope to have projects advertised again for the next intake. Exciting news as we have 2 new PhD project opportunities advertised via the North West Bio program. There are projects with Sam and Doug. These projects are intended to be Lancaster-based, but with […]
A big Lancaster welcome to Anna and Quentin who this week begin their PhD journeys! Anna is joining Elizabete’s group to work on engineering Rubisco Activase thermotolerance, and Quentin joins Marjorie’s group to study C2 engineering in model species. Anna was previously a Masters student with Doug, while Quentin joins from the US having completed his undergraduate studies at the […]
Well done to Lundgren Lab PhD student Catherine Walsh, who together with Marj has just published a review article on “Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates” in Plants, People, Planet. Great work, and an important topic to understand as the climate continues to change and become more variable.
Very well done to Joana on her well deserved promotion to Senior Research Associate! Joana is a postdoc on the EU funded CAPITALISE programme, you can read more here about her and the programme.
Congrats to Ana Lobo on leading a publication with Doug and Elizabete that is now available in early access at the Biochemical Journal. This is part of work on understanding how to improve photosynthetic productivity in rice, within the EU funded PhotoBoost programme. The paper focuses on improving our understanding of the potential impacts of some chloroplast metabolites on the […]
A big welcome to Ed, Grace, and Gustavo who are all spending time with us on paid internships during the summer months. They’ll contributing to some of our research projects while getting experience in a research group and building new skills.
New review paper out on the ways we and many colleagues are working to improve photosynthetic efficiency. This is now available online at The Plant Cell, this was led Roberta Croce and includes contributions from many colleagues including Elizabete.
As part of continually looking at how we do our research from an ethical and sustainablity perspective, we’ve recently begun using new technology to generate antibodies against our favourite proteins like Rubisco Activase. This was part of a recently published book chapter by Elizabete and alumni Duncan, to generate very specific antibodies for our work that didn’t previously exist. You […]
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