Cara and Pablo featured in Duke Today article for their new paper!
Winter, C.M., Szekely, P., Popov, V. et al. SHR and SCR coordinate root patterning and growth early in the cell cycle. Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06971-z
Shahan R+, Hsu C-W+, Nolan TM#, Cole BJ#, Taylor IW, Greenstreet L, Zhang S, Afanassiev A, Vlot AHC, Schiebinger G, Benfey PN*, Ohler U* (2022) A single cell Arabidopsis root atlas reveals developmental trajectories in wild type and cell identity mutants. Developmental Cell. 57(4): 543-560. DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.01.008
+ authors contributed equally. # authors contributed equally. *corresponding authors.
Dr. Susan Duncan from the John Innes center visited our lab from October – November of 2018.
About Dr. Duncan (from her webpage):
In plants, the circadian clock is vital for measuring day length and aligning development with the changing seasons. Circadian gene regulation has been associated with many important agronomic traits including flowering time, dormancy, water use efficiency, nitrogen metabolism and vegetative yield. Recent work also points toward a close involvement with stress and plant/pathogen interactions and the clock. My project aims to develop the tools and resources to investigate the role and function of the clock in important crop species. Specifically, I am collecting high-throughput measurements of circadian rhythms and using a range of approaches to investigate Arabidopsis clock gene homologues. I will also collaborate with colleagues at the John Innes Centre to assess agronomic traits of clock mutants in field experiments.
Previously I completed a PhD at the John Innes Centre where I investigated the impact of climate change on vernalization. I also developed a single molecule RNA FISH (smFISH) method for plants and used it to explore sense/antisense transcription at the cellular level. During a previous post doc I used smFISH and Golden Gate Cloning approaches to test hypotheses generated from mathematical models.
Looks like her dog George is now a Dukie as well!
Looks like George also enjoys reading about plants!
Our second-year PhD student, Niba Nirmal, has won second place in the Seeing Science fair!
Curated by The Durham Hotel and local Durham artist, Iris Gottleib, the Seeing Science Fair was an evening of edible insects, erupting volcanoes and a wide-array of tri-fold displays. Guests stepped into an interactive pop-up playground of exhibits and experiments touching on all angles of our weird and wonderful universe.
Read more: https://www.instagram.com/p/BuR-pp-BXfe/
