{"id":105,"date":"2020-04-21T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:11:41","slug":"sophie-young","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/dr-marjorie-r-lundgren\/people\/sophie-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-329 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_6995-scaled-e1670429331151-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_6995-scaled-e1670429331151-245x300.jpg 245w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_6995-scaled-e1670429331151-836x1024.jpg 836w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_6995-scaled-e1670429331151-768x940.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_6995-scaled-e1670429331151-1254x1536.jpg 1254w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_6995-scaled-e1670429331151.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> Contact me<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>s.young5@lancaster.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster Environment Centre<br \/>\nLancaster University<br \/>\nLancaster, LA1 4YQ<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeunesophie\">Twitter<\/a>: @jeunesophie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=K2__LXgAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Sophie_Young18\">ResearchGate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Interests<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>My research interests lie in plant ecophysiology, specifically photosynthesis. My PhD research investigates photosynthetic diversity in Euphorbiaceae\u00a0 in order to understand why C4 photosynthesis is so rare in trees. Despite over 60 independent origins, C4 has only been found in one group of true trees, which are Hawaiian endemics in <em>Euphorbia<\/em>. I am investigating the physiology, ecology and biogeography of these trees and their relatives in Euphorbiaceae in order to understand how the C4 trees evolved, and why they are so rare.<\/p>\n<p>This work is in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/sourcedb.scib.cas.cn\/yw\/rck\/201612\/t20161220_4724101.html\">collaborators<\/a> at the Chinese Academy of Sciences campus at the South China Botanical Garden in Guangzhou, which houses a collection of trees in Euphorbiaceae.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Publications<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"citation__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Sophie N R Young, Marjorie R Lundgren,<\/strong> C<sub>4<\/sub> photosynthesis in <i>Paulownia<\/i>? A case of inaccurate citations, <em>Plants, People, Planet,<\/em> 1 December 2022 (<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ppp3.10343\">Link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie N R Young<\/strong>, Luke T Dunning, Hui Lui, Carly J Stevens, <strong>Marjorie R Lundgren<\/strong>, C<sub>4<\/sub> trees have broader niches than their close C<sub>3<\/sub> relatives, <em>Journal of Experimental Botany<\/em>, 16 March 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jxb\/erac113\">(Link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Royles,<strong> Sophie N R Young<\/strong>, Howard Griffiths, Stable isotope signals provide seasonal climatic markers for moss functional groups, <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em>, Volume 289, Issue 1967, 19 January 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2021.2470\">(Link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie N R Young<\/strong>, Lawren Sack, Margaret J Sporck-Koehler, <strong>Marjorie R Lundgren<\/strong>, Why is C<sub>4<\/sub> photosynthesis so rare in trees?, <em>Journal of Experimental Botany<\/em>, Volume 71, Issue 16, 6 August 2020, Pages 4629\u20134638, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jxb\/eraa234\">(Link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie N R Young<\/strong>, The fab C4, <em>The Biologist<\/em>, 5 June 2020 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsb.org.uk\/biologist-features\/158-biologist\/features\/2363-the-fab-c4?highlight=WyJ0aGUiLCIndGhlIiwiZmFiIiwiYzQiLCJ0aGUgZmFiIiwidGhlIGZhYiBjNCIsImZhYiBjNCJd\">Link)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Background<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2019-Present<\/span>: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Lancaster University- PhD in Plant Science<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Thesis title: Why does C<sub>4<\/sub> photosynthesis rarely evolve in trees?<\/li>\n<li>Funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.envision-dtp.org\/2019\/sophie-young\/\">NERC Envision DTP<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Supervised by <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/dr-marjorie-r-lundgren\/people\/dr-marjorie-r-lundgren-2\/\">Dr Marjorie Lundgren<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lec\/about-us\/people\/carly-stevens#phd-students\">Professor Carly Stevens<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2018-2019<\/span>: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>University of Cambridge- Research Assistant<\/p>\n<p>I worked on a variety of projects including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Moss ecophysiology: looking at the patterns of photosynthetic activity in mosses under different drying regimes, and how that affected their accumulation of soluble carbohydrates &#8211; find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/data.plantsci.cam.ac.uk\/moss_ecophysiology\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk\/research\/environmental-plant-physiology\">Maize canopy light fluctuations<\/a>: developing a field set-up for monitoring how light levels in the maize canopy fluctuate during the day and how this relates to the weather conditions in the field.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk\/research\/physiological-ecology\">Chlamydomonas reinhardtii EPYC1<\/a>: looking at the origins of EPYC1, an important protein in the algal pyrenoid, and how it interacts with Rubisco.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2015-2018<\/span>: \u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Pembroke College, University of Cambridge- BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences, 2:1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact me s.young5@lancaster.ac.uk Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YQ United Kingdom Twitter: @jeunesophie Google Scholar ResearchGate Interests My research interests lie in plant ecophysiology, specifically photosynthesis. My PhD research investigates photosynthetic diversity in Euphorbiaceae\u00a0 in order to understand why C4 photosynthesis is so rare in trees. Despite over 60 independent origins, C4 has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/dr-marjorie-r-lundgren\/people\/sophie-young\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sophie Young&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1137,"featured_media":0,"parent":94,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/330"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lundgrenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}