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
Tamara Hernandez-Verdeja – Tamara is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate in photosynthetic biotechnology. She is leading the C2 photosynthesis transformation effort in the UKRI C2 engineering programme.
Hattie Roberts – Hattie Roberts is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in plant physiology and anatomy starting. She leads the C2 photosynthesis phenotyping effort in the UKRI C2 engineering programme.
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 is a technician supporting on the UKRI FLF project.
Visiting Researchers
Yang Zhao -Yang is studying the underlying mechanisms driving the remarkable fast growth in Paulownia trees.
PhD Students
Catherine Walsh – Catherine is funded by a Waitrose CTP to study how the C2 photosynthetic pathway influences the yield and flavour consistency of salad rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia) cultivars.
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.
Undergraduate Research Students
Thomas Benson – Tom is studying root structural changes in response to nutrient levels in plants using different photosynthetic types.
Lab Alumni
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)