A big Lancaster welcome to Anna and Quentin who this week begin their PhD journeys! Anna is joining Elizabete’s group to work on engineering Rubisco Activase thermotolerance, and Quentin joins Marjorie’s group to study C2 engineering in model species. Anna was previously a Masters student with Doug, while Quentin joins from the US having completed his undergraduate studies at the […]
Well done to Lundgren Lab PhD student Catherine Walsh, who together with Marj has just published a review article on “Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates” in Plants, People, Planet. Great work, and an important topic to understand as the climate continues to change and become more variable.
Very well done to Joana on her well deserved promotion to Senior Research Associate! Joana is a postdoc on the EU funded CAPITALISE programme, you can read more here about her and the programme.
Congrats to Ana Lobo on leading a publication with Doug and Elizabete that is now available in early access at the Biochemical Journal. This is part of work on understanding how to improve photosynthetic productivity in rice, within the EU funded PhotoBoost programme. The paper focuses on improving our understanding of the potential impacts of some chloroplast metabolites on the […]
A big welcome to Ed, Grace, and Gustavo who are all spending time with us on paid internships during the summer months. They’ll contributing to some of our research projects while getting experience in a research group and building new skills.
New review paper out on the ways we and many colleagues are working to improve photosynthetic efficiency. This is now available online at The Plant Cell, this was led Roberta Croce and includes contributions from many colleagues including Elizabete.
As part of continually looking at how we do our research from an ethical and sustainablity perspective, we’ve recently begun using new technology to generate antibodies against our favourite proteins like Rubisco Activase. This was part of a recently published book chapter by Elizabete and alumni Duncan, to generate very specific antibodies for our work that didn’t previously exist. You […]
Congrats to several team members for 2 recent publications. Elizabete and team alumnus Emmanuel, along with a group of colleagues including others at LEC were involved in a wide ranging study of soybean in Europe, now out in Scientific Reports. Available online here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-57522-z Alejandro, who is now leading his own group at UCLAN, has also recently published work with […]
Applications have just opened for a Plant Physiologist postdoc role working with Elizabete as part of the BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme Delivering Sustainable Wheat. This project aims to decipher the mechanistic regulation of Rubisco synthesis and degradation and how this process impacts photosynthetic efficiency and nitrogen use efficiency in wheat. The wider project goal is to contribute to optimising the […]
Super exciting times with the news that Carmen’s MSCA Fellowship has been selected for funding by the European Commission! Her project will study epidermis and mesophyll development coordination in Arabidopsis, and be hosted in Elizabete’s group. Massive congratulations to Carmen for all the hard work that went into it, and looking forward to seeing the cool results in the coming […]
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