Big congrats to the Dr Gustaf Degen, who has successfully completed his PhD viva on his thesis research into Rubisco Activase in wheat. He was supervised by Elizabete Carmo-Silva and Martin Parry. He’s made a number of interesting findings, you can see some of these in a recent paper he led with Dawn and Elizabete, with more in the works. […]
Well done to Doug Orr and Elizabete Carmo-Silva who have recently contributed to an article characterizing Rubisco small subunit mutants published in the Journal of Experimental Botany. This work was led by our friends in the McCormick lab at the University of Edinburgh with contributions from a number of collaborators. It was led by PK who has recently completed his […]
Well done and great job by Cris Sales, Anabela Bernardes da Silva (Lisbon) and Elizabete Carmo-Silva who have recently published an article in the Journal of Experimental Botany and a related protocols piece. This has been a big effort led by Cris to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of determining Rubisco activity and activation state, including ease […]
The Lancaster Photosynthesis Team is excited to be recruiting two new Postdoctoral positions to contribute to the large multinational project RIPE: Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency for Sustainable Increases in Crop Yield. We are seeking two enthusiastic postdocs (Research Associates) to work in Plant Biochemistry and Plant Bioinformatics. These roles will contribute to the goal of improving Rubisco and its regulation […]
Organising a conference: Plastid Preview 2018 By Rhiannon Page, Plastid Preview organising team member. Plastid Preview is a small, friendly meeting for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) working in the area of chloroplast biology and I had been fortunate enough to attend twice, both in Edinburgh in 2016 and in Cambridge in 2017. So when I was given the opportunity to […]
A new PhD position has just been advertised on the Lancaster Environment Centre website to join the photosynthesis team and work on Rubisco Activase from diverse plants. This project is to work with two of our PIs: Elizabete Carmo-Silva and Marjorie Lundgren If you or someone you know is interested, please head here for more information, the application process, and […]
We are recruiting a postdoctoral plant molecular physiologist. This would be perfect for someone who has recently finished a PhD and wants to get some further experience by contributing to our synthetic biology project Super-Rice! While it is a short term post (8 months because the project ends 30/06/2019), it comes with lots of perks! The post holder will visit […]
One of our new projects as part of IWYP aims to increase wheat genetic yield potential by speeding up the response of photosynthesis in shade-sun transitions. We are excited about it and made a video to let the world know about it! https://twitter.com/LancasterUni/status/1007245235745902592 A number of us at the photosynthesis group attended the IWYP Annual Meeting in Norwich, UK, June 2018, […]
This year’s retreat at Grasmere felt like a real treat!! Not only was the weather perfect to enjoy the Lake District at its best, we had a full day of productive scientific discussions focused on each project, and plenty of time to discuss science and the challenges and opportunities we face as scientists! A great opportunity to be together as […]
On Saturday 12 May, three Portuguese-speaking members of our team took part in the Native Explorers science education and outreach activity, co-organized by Lancaster University and the Native Scientist project. Cristina, Catarina and Elizabete were so fortunate to take this opportunity to talk to Portuguese teenagers living in the Manchester area about photosynthesis research going on at LEC. Seeing the […]
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