Author: Douglas Orr (Page 6 of 8)

Tomorrow Tuesday 18th May is 2021 Fascination of Plants Day!

Members of the team have prepared a range of activities, tips, quizzes and even recipes that link to our Lancaster Photosynthesis!

You can check out the details here and the team will be tweeting tomorrow to share!

As part of her UKRI Future Leaders work on C2 Photosynthesis, there are currently 3 opportunities to join her in this exciting area!

Links to the positions for further details, and to access to application portal, can be found via our twitter here.

As part of her recently funded UKRI FLF work on engineering C2 photosynthesis, there is an exciting opportunity to work with Marj for a 42 month Senior Postdoctoral Associate role, with the potential for this to be extended.

You can find more about the work here.  Or on her LEC page here.

Application details and further details are available via the Lancaster University jobs page portal.
*Please note that full instructions are at the above link, all applications must be submitted through the portal.

Well done to Alejandro, Peter, and Elizabete whose work on expression and translation of the different wheat Rubisco Activase isoforms has just been published in Photosynthesis Research.

You can check out the paper here: tinyurl.com/3cv9pu8h

Congratulations to Alex Sokolnik who successfully complete his MRes viva this week! Well done!

Alex was working on cowpea development, and like many had to adapt and dramatically change his (formerly lab-based) project part way through.

Really valuable publication recently out from a large group of people including Lancasters Sam Taylor and Marj Lundgren.

This new paper “A reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata” is just that, a set of advice and conventions for reporting your gas exchange.
This will help the community more easily share data on repositories and facilitate more detailed and larger meta-analyses, making everyones data and work even more valuable.

Check it out at Ecological Informatics

Congratulations are in order for team member Louis Caruana, who last week passed his MRes viva.
Well done Louis!
Louis’ did a great job having to adjust to an silico project like may others in the changing circumstances, and has produced some very nice work on Rubisco, Rca and related genes.

Thanks also to the internal and external examiners for an interesting and constructive conversation with Louis, with great feedback.

Louis is continuing with the team, now working on an ongoing project with wheat.

Well done to group members Louis Caruana and Alex Sokolnik who both recently submitted their Masters by Research theses, and are now preparing for their vivas.

Great job on all your hard work on this in challenging times!

A massive congrats to our resident C2 expert PI Marjorie Lundgren!

She has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to continue her exciting work on C2 here at Lancaster!

You can see the news item from Lancaster here, and check out a recent review by Marj.

In a new publication now online in New Phytologist, research led by former PhD student Gustaf with Doug and Elizabete shows how heat stress alters the amount of Rubisco activase in wheat leaves in an isoform-specific manner. Part of our International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP) research, this work is another step towards understanding not only how plants alter their photosynthetic apparatus during stress, but helping us identify ways we might be able to make wheat and other crops more resilient to future changes in climate.

Well done Gustaf for another publication from his recently completed PhD! He’s now a postdoc with Matt Johnson at the University of Sheffield.