We are super excited and very thankful to the Wolfson Foundation for the recently announced round of funding which includes new support for expanding our plant research facilities in the Lancaster Environment Centre. This will enable us to expand and improve our capabilities to investigate plant response to change spanning from the whole plant level to physiological, biochemical, and molecular […]
Big welcome to Jacqueline who has joined us starting from today! She’s here for a 7 month research visit from Brazil to continue her postdoc work looking at plant responses to silica nanoparticles.
A slightly delayed but nonetheless warm welcome to Armida and Caty who join the team to work on the RIPE project. Armida joins as a postdoc and Caty is joining as a biochemistry technician. They’ll both be contributing to our work on rubisco regulation in cowpea and soybean to contribute to delivering improved varieties to farmers, particularly those in sub-Saharan […]
Update: applications are now closed. A new role in the team is now advertised as part of work on photosynthesis, Rubisco and wheat with Elizabete. This Plant Physiologist postdoc role is 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 […]
If you or someone you know are looking to do a MRes in plant science, and have an interest in photosynthesis, and the potential of agricvoltaics to contribute to cleaner energy production on farms, then this position could be just right. Sam & Elizabete have a MRes position advertised which aims to better understand the potential benefits of solar-tracking PV, […]
Fay has recently joined us to begin a PhD on the heat tolerance of photosynthesis in cowpea. She’ll be working with Elizabete and Sam. Welcome to Lancaster Fay!
Congrats and well done to PhD student Duncan who submitted his thesis on Rubisco Activase shortly before the Easter break!
Within the Lancaster Environment Centre a PhD project is available on carboxysome engineering, which is aiming to build upon our previous work towards assembling a cyanobacterial carboxysome in plant chloroplasts. This is the central part of attempts to build a cyanobacterial CCM within plants to boost photosynthetic efficiency. This project will involve in vitro and in planta analysis of existing transgenics […]
We are currently recruiting several team members including a Specialist Biochemistry Technician, which is a different type of role and can be a better fit for how some people want to contribute to the research. Rhiannon, one of our RIPE team members and Specialist Molecular Biology Technician shares some thoughts about why this role really suits her: ‘I have been […]
Updated 20/03/23: DTP applications for this year are now closed, but the LEC project below is open until March 31st. Details below We have 2 PhD positions open to application, based wholly or partly at Lancaster! These are both led by Doug, with different collaborators and program specifics. Some details are below but please carefully read the linked pages for […]
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