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Professor of Quantitative Plant Development appointed

Dr James Locke has been appointed as the Professor of Quantitative Plant Development at the University of Cambridge, a new single tenure professorship that will build on the University’s strengths in plant science research.

Festival of Plants 2023

Join the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) at this year's Festival of Plants on Saturday 10 June 10:00 - 17:00. The Cambridge University Botanic Garden's annual Festival of Plants is a day for exploring the wonderful world of plants

Models of the structures of FOLD proteins from a pathogen (blue) and a symbiotic fungus (orange) superimposed onto each other to show how similar they are. Image by Albin Teulet

Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi may use similar molecular tools to manipulate plants

Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi that interact with plants are distantly related and don’t share many genetic similarities. C omparing plant pathogenic fungi and plant symbiotic fungi, scientists at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) have discovered that these remote relatives are using a similar group of proteins to manipulate and live within plants.

Sebastián Moreno Ramirez working with Arabidopsis thaliana plants

Meet Sebastián Moreno Ramirez

Humans of SLCU Taking inspiration from Humans of New York, each week we will feature people from our SLCU community. Meet Sebastián… Dr Sebastián Moreno Ramirez | Research Associate Twitter @seba_moreno_r Sebastián is a plant development biologist studying stem cells, in particular the shoot apical meristem dynamic (SAM)...

Meet Cara Bootman

Humans of SLCU Taking inspiration from Humans of New York, each week we will feature people from our SLCU community. Meet Cara... Cara Bootman | Senior HR Co-ordinator Cara joined SLCU in March this year as our Senior HR Co-ordinator. Cara's office is in the Admin Office on the Ground Floor and she holds a HR drop-in...

Meet Sonal Yadav

Taking inspiration from Humans of New York, each week we will feature people from our SLCU community. Sonal joined SLCU in January 2023 as a Research Associate and is working in three research groups - Alexander Jones, Henrik Jönsson and Elliot Meyerowitz. She recently defended her PhD from IISER Mohali under the guidance of Dr Ram Kishor Yadav.

Modelling the evolution of novelty

Understanding the evolution of novelty through computational modelling The most striking outcome of evolution is the emergence of novel forms of life, with new abilities and interesting shapes, colours and sizes. In an Essays in Biochemistry review , Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University’s (SLCU) Enrico Sandro Colizzi...

Meet Albin Teulet

Taking inspiration from Humans of New York, each week we will feature people from our SLCU community. Albin's research f ocuses on understanding the molecular strategies employed by beneficial/symbiotic microorganisms to facilitate their interaction with their host. He is specifically interested in investigating how these microorganisms are able to suppress the host's immune response by utilising effector proteins.

Meet Raymond Wightman

Taking inspiration from Humans of New York, each week we will feature people from our SLCU community. Ray joined SLCU in 2011 as a postdoc in Elliot Meyerowitz’ group working on shoot apical meristem development. Together with a small team, he now runs SLCU's microscopy facility where they train and support researchers in the use of light and electron microscopes.

Science of the extremes – what does it take for plants to survive?

Dora's research focuses on understanding how plants respond and adapt to weather extremes. Her work is revealing just what it takes for plants to survive, including work that has identified a mechanism that plants use to cope with cold at dawn

Plant science at Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is home to one of the largest concentrations of plant research anywhere in the world. Visit the below organisations to find out about their work in sustainable agriculture, conservation and fundamental research.

Department of Plant Sciences

Crop Science Centre

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Cambridge University Herbarium

CambPlants Hub

Cambridge Global Food Security

Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology

Conservation Research Institute

Plants at Cambridge Hub

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