Lundgren Lab January 2025 at Soul Bowl, Morecambe, UK, including (front row, left to right) Yang Zhao, Marjorie Lundgren (and offspring), Hattie Robert, Carmen Hermida Carrera, and Tamara Hernandez-Verdeja and (back row, left to right) Jake Chandler, Alvaro Herrera Seller, Quentin Herzig, Catherine Walsh, and Dawn Worral.
Lundgren Lab April 2022 The Water Witch in Lancaster, including (Left, front to back) Brittany Heap, Sophie Young, and Duncan Bloemers and (Right, front to back) Marjorie Lundgren (with offspring), Roxana Khoshravesh, Freya Cook, and Tamara Hernandez-Verdeja.
Dr Marjorie R Lundgren– PI
Dr Lundgren is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Plant Environmental Physiology.
Research Staff
Catherine Walsh – Catherine is a research associate working on establishing the phenotype across diverse lineages as part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project.
Jake Chandler – Jake is a research associate working on C2 photosynthesis engineering in Camelina as part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project.
Dawn Worrall – Dawn is a research technician working on the C2 photosynthesis transformation effort as part of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project.
Ben Wilkinson – Ben was a technician supporting on the UKRI FLF project in 2024 and will rejoin the lab in the summer of 2025 as a Rank Prize Vacation Studentship researcher.
Visiting Researchers
Tamara Hernandez-Verdeja Tamara is a visiting researcher and collaborator working on the second phase of the UKRI C2 engineering programme.
Yang Zhao -Yang is studying the underlying mechanisms driving the remarkable fast growth in Paulownia trees.
Alana Batista Cruz – Alana is studying the phenotypic diversity of C2 grasses.
PhD Students
Alvaro Herrera Seller – Alvaro is working on engineering carboxysomes into plants. He is funded by a Lancaster University Faculty of Science and Technology studentship.
Quentin Herzig – Quentin is funded by the North West Bio DTP. His project aims to engineer components of the C2 photosynthesis phenotype into Arabidopsis.
Masters Students
Kevin Martin – Kevin is studying how Tilia trees will cope with climate change.
Lab Alumni
Hattie Roberts – Postdoctoral Research Associate (2023-2025)
Sophie Young – PhD Student (2019 – 2024)
George Rumble – MSci Student & Research Associate (2021 – 2024)
Matthew Perkins – MSci Student (2023-2024)
Duncan Bloemers – PhD Student (2019 – 2023)
Rosie Dunkley – Envision DTP Student (2022-2023)
Brittany Heap, Research Technician (2021-2022)
Roxana Khoshravesh, Senior Research Associate (2021-2022)
Megan Mason, Summer Research Intern (2022)
Freya Cook, UG Dissertation student and Technician (2021 – 2022)
Edward Mooney, MSc student (2021 – 2022)
Matthew Freeman, MSc student (2019 – 2020)
Qiumin Li, MSc student (2018-2019)