Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Training (EST)
Integrative Biology Research Group
sensing and the biological response to the environment in plants
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Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Training (EST) |
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Integrative Biology Research Group |
sensing and the biological response to the environment in plants |
three year and six month Fellowships from October 2006 |
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Dr Meriel G Jones (Co-ordinator) |
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Dr Andy Bates |
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| Lecturer in plant physiology. Investigates responses to stress (particularly nutrients, pathogens and temperature). Plant secondary metabolism. | Lecturer in biological chemistry/ molecular biology. Studies DNA topology and the mechanism and role of type II topoisomerases; their inhibition by drugs and toxins. Nucleic acids in the construction of nanomaterials. | ||||
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Dr Mark X Caddick
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Dr
Anthony Hall
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| Senior Lecturer in genetics and molecular biology. Focus on signalling and regulatory response effected by nutrient availability and pH. Interested in molecular genetic analysis of eukaryotic gene expression. | Lecturer in plant molecular biology. Investigates the circadian clock mechanism and associated temperature effects in Arabidopsis, using new imaging technologies and new luciferases. Research also focuses on post-transcriptional regulation by the clock and investigating the biological function of the clock using state of the art metabolomic technologies. | ||||
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Dr James Hartwell |
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Dr Lesley Iwanejko | ||
| Lecturer in plant metabolism. Investigates the molecular basis for the circadian regulation of plant metabolism, focusing on Crassulacean acid metabolism in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Interested in plant adaptation to salt and drought stress. Technologies include imaging in transgenic plants, proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolite analysis. | Lecturer in genetics. Interested in DNA repair and mutagenesis and their involvement in ageing. Directed evolution to generate enzymes with improved biocatalytic activities. | ||||
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Martin Mortimer
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Professor A Brian Tomsett
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| Reader in plant population biology. Studies issues underlying global food security from the perspectives of invasive species and the impact of global climate change on plant abundance. | Professor in molecular genetics. Focus on gene switches in transgenic plants to study gene function in plant growth and development and plant-insect interactions in agriculture. | ||||
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Recent publications of IBRG |
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