A new PhD project has just been advertised in Elizabete’s group as part of the NorthWestBio DLA which Lancaster is a part of. Details below, please note all applications must be submitted via links below, email applications will not be accepted. Harnessing the impact of Rubisco engineering on plant metabolism for improved crop performance Supervisors: Prof Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster […]
Big welcome to Jess Pritchard who today starts her 1851 Commission Fellowship looking at CAM Rca! Jess is joining Elizabete’s group for 3 years as a Research Fellow, having done her PhD in CAM with James Hartwell (Liverpool) and a postdoc in pyrenoid engineering with Alistair McCormick (Edinburgh). Looking forward to all the exciting CAM Rca science to come!
A big thanks for a busy summer of help from outgoing intern Amy. Amy has been supporting many activities centred around our screening of transgenic plants. She now heads into her Masters year and keeps with photosynthesis by looking at C2, C3, and C4 with Marj Lundgren in her Masters project.
Well done to a team led by Hu Sun and Stefan Timm at the University of Rostock in Germany, and including a contribution from Rhiannon and Elizabete here in Lancaster. The publication Multi-Subunit Engineering of Photorespiratory Glycine Decarboxylase Refines Photosynthesis, Growth and Metabolic Robustness of Arabidopsis is now online in Plant, Cell and Environment.
Well done to Fay Biney who recently submitted her PhD thesis on her work with Elizabete and Sam on heat stress in cowpea. A big achievement to get this done, and to already have some of the work submitted as manuscripts.
We’re excited to share that Amy, a Lancaster undergrad, will be joining Doug’s group for the summer on an EPSRC funded summer vacation studentship. Amy will be working with us on our plant synthetic biology work to learn and experience a research environment whilst making a real contribution to ongoing research at Lancaster.
A warm Lancaster welcome to Tiziano who is here for a collaborative visit as part of his PhD work at ITQB-NOVA in Lisbon. As part of his PhD within ITQBs Plant sciences unit, he’s here for some exciting experiments in rice.
Massive well done to PhD student Connor Nehls-Ramos who has recently had his first publication appear in the Journal of Experimental Botany. As part of Connors work on the regulation of Rubisco by CA1P and the phosphatase CA1Pase he investigated just how much we know (and don’t know!) about how different groups of plants utilise CA1P as a night time […]
Our newly revamped website is now live! Thanks to the efforts of Rachel and contributions of many in the team, you can now find more about us, and links to other information more easily. We’ll keep updating with news, photos, and available positions when they occur!
Thanks for stopping by! We are currently reorganising our website to update it with new team members, and a new look, for a refresh in the coming weeks. To learn about us you can check out newly updated Lancaster Environment Centre discipline group pages, including the Plant Biology website HERE. If you are here looking for recently advertised PhD […]
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