Group - Madelaine Bartlett

Key Publications

Michael A. Fallon,  Hisham Tadfie,  Aracely P. Watson,  Madeline M. Dyke,  Christopher Flores,  Nathan Cook,  Zhangjun Fei,  Cynthia K. Holland. (2024). Molecular basis of one‐step methyl anthranilate biosynthesis in grapes, sweet orange, and maize. The Plant Journal, 119(5), 2363-2374. doi: 10.1111/tpj.16922

Madelaine Bartlett is a Group Leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory and an Associate Member of the Department of Plant Sciences, both within the University of Cambridge. She joined Cambridge in 2024 following a decade at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she progressed through Assistant, Associate to full Professor.

Research Interests

Research Interests

My research focuses on the molecular mechanisms and signalling networks underlying pollen-stigma recognition. Specifically, I have studied two critical aspects of pollen-stigma interactions: the role of signalling factors mediating cell-cell recognition and the programmed cell death of pollen tubes induced by self-incompatibility.

My research has always been focused to deciphering molecular basis of plant reproduction and development. I have a PhD in Plant biotechnology from Cinvestav Mexico where I was working on asexual reproduction in Agave plants. I started to work with maize as a model in a postdoctoral stay at the University of California Berkeley, carrying out protein-protein interaction analysis of new components on developmental signaling.