Principal investigators in theme:
Name: Dr Sebastian Ahnert
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: sea31@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Network analysis, genotype-phenotype maps, biological self-assembly, protein quaternary structure, evolution complexity
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/ahnert-group
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sir David Baulcombe
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: dcb40@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Gene silencing and disease resistance
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/davidbaulcombe
Themes: plant biology, infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Carr
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jpc1005@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Resistance and pathogenicty mechanisms in plant-virus interactions
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/johncarr
Themes: plant biology, infection and immunity
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Coomes
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: dac18@cam.ac.uk
Topic: large-scale changes to forest structure and plant diversity, coexistence mechanisms, effects of invasive organisms
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/davidcoomes
Themes: plant biology, ecology and conservation
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Julia Davies
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jmd32@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Root biology and calcium signalling
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/juliadavies
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Paul Dupree
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: pd101@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Bioenergy, proteomics, bioinformatics and glycobiology
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/dupree
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, plant biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ian Furner
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: ijf@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Epigenetics and gene silencing, DNA methylation and siRNA in Arabidopsis thaliana
WWW: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/furner
Themes: functional genomics, system biology and genetic medicine, plant biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Beverley Glover
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: bjg26@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular genetics of plant development
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/beverleyglover
Themes: plant biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Howard Griffiths
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: hg230@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Integration of plant physiological ecology and photosynthetic variation using stable isotopes
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/howardgriffiths
Themes: plant biology, ecology and conservation
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jim Haseloff
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jh295@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development of Synthetic Biology tools and the engineering of lower plant systems
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/jimhaseloff
Themes: plant biology, developmental biology and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Yka Helariutta
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences (Sainsbury Laboratory)
Email: yrjo.helariutta@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication in plants
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/helariutta-group
Themes: plant biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ian Henderson
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: irh25@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Meiosis and Epigenetic Inheritance
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/ianhenderson
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Julian Hibberd
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jmh65@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Assembly and role of photosynthetic apparatus in specific cell-types and evolution of C4 photosynthesis
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/julianhibberd
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Christopher Howe
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: c.j.howe@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Biochemistry and evolution of photosynthesis
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/howe
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, plant biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Katja Jaeger
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: katja.jaeger@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanism of heat stress response and acclimation
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/jaeger-group
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, plant biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alexander Jones
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: alexander.jones@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Determining the mechanisms controlling plant hormone patterns and dynamics
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/jones-group
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Henrik Jönsson
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: henrik.jonsson@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development of live imaging techniques and Computational Morphodynamics models at the cellular level.
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonsson-henrik
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ottoline Leyser
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: ottoline.leyser@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Hormonal control of shoot branching and its plascicity
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/leyser-ottoline
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Devin O'Connor
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: Devin.OConnor@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Grass developmental genetics and auxin-transport mediated patterning.
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/oconnor-devin
Themes: plant biology, evolutionary biology, structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Giles Oldroyd
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: giles.oldroyd@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development of symbiotic associations in plants
WWW:
Themes: plant biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology,
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jerzy Paszkowski
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: jerzy.paszkowski@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The epigenetic regulation of transcription and on molecular mechanisms contributing to formation of transgenerationally stable epigenetic sates
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/paszkowski-jerzy
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Uta Paszkowski
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: up220@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and functioning of AM symbioses in rice and maize
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/utapaszkowski
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Mr Kourosh Saeb-Parsy
Dept: Department of Surgery
Email: ks10014@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Transplantation and regenerative medicine
WWW: http://surgery.medschl.cam.ac.uk/staff/saeb-parsy/
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine/transplantation
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sebastian Schornack
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: sebastian.schornack@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Developmental processes in plant-microbe interactions
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/schornack-group
Themes: plant biology, infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Alison Smith
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: as25@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Regulation of metabolism in plants and algae; algal-bacterial symbiosis; riboswitches
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/alisonsmith
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Edmund Tanner
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: evt1@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Growth and species diversity in tropical forests
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/edtanner
Themes: plant biology, ecology and conservation
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Alex Webb
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: aarw2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Circadian rhythms and calcium signalling
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/alexwebb
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Philip Wigge
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: philip.wigge@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Temperature sensing pathways in eukaryotes
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/wigge-phil
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, plant biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
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