Plant Stress Biology at Manchester University |
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Current group members:Mariela Aguilera - PhD student (Chile) - Oxygen uptake and the plastid terminal oxidase Norazreen Binti Abd Rahman - PhD student (Malaysia) - Acclimaiton to Temperature Pablo Calzadilla - Post Doc (BBSRC) - Plastid Terminal Oxidase as a route to improve crop stress tolerance Beata Czajkowska - technician (BBSRC) - Plastid Terminal Oxidase as a route to improve crop stress tolerance Armida Gidalli - PhD student (BBSRC) - The role of soil nitrogen in controlling acclimtion to the environment Helena Herrmann - PhD student (BBSRC) - Understanding plant acclimation to the environment Giles Johnson - group leader Chloe Kirkwood - MSci student - Acclimation to cold and the role of nitrogen in wheat Josef Oliver - PhD student (BBSRC) - Understanding metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for biotechnology applicaitons Past group members and visitors:Patten Smith - MBiol student - Role of fumarase concentration in controlling acclimation. Mohammed Fauzihan Karim - PhD student (Malaysia) - Stress responses and acclimation Stephen Chapman - PhD student (BBSRC) -
Photosynthetic acclimation of Chalmydomonas Beth Dyson - BBSRC funded post-doc working on the accumulation of fumarate in Arabidopsis plants; previously BBSRC funded PhD student Matthew Miller - PhD student (NERC) - Photosynthetic acclimation in Arabidopsis Chukwuma Ogbaga - PhD student (Nigeria) - Stress responses in Sorghum Furzani Pa'ee - PhD student (Malaysia) - Acclimation of photosynthesis to decreasing light Sashila Abeyratne - PhD student (Sri Lanka) Regulation of photosynthesis under stress in rice. Milton Lima Neto - Post doctoral fellow,
Brazil, regulation of electron transport. Habib-ur-Rehman Athar - HEC funded post-doc - Betaine accumulation in transgenic tobacco Mohamed Turan Boodhoo - PhD (BBSRC-DTC Systems Biology) - Effects of GPT2 expression on Metabolite Partitioning Kafi James - MSc - FNR as a controlling factor in cyclic electron flow Mahmood Esna Ashari - (Iran) - Visiting Scholar Yiping Chen (China) - Visiting Scholar. Concepcion del Carmen Molina Jiron (Panama) - MSc student - Photosynthetic acclimation in Wheat Ruiqiong An - MSc - Chilling stress in
Cucumber Mostofa Kamal - MSc - Salt stress in Barley Fakhra Shamim - Visiting researcher, HEC Pakistan- Drought stress in tomato varieties Shun Hasegawa - visiting student (Japan) - Acclimation of photosynthesis in different Arabidopsis accessions. Piotr Stepien - EU Marie Curie post doctoral fellow (Poland) - Salt tolerance of the halophyte Thellungiella halophilla Beena Nandha - BBSRC funded PhD student carrying out spectroscopic analyses of electron transport Rachel Webster - BBSRC funded research technician working on the molecular characterisation of T-DNA insertion lines and application of RNAi to produce knock-out plants Simon Hald - BBSRC funded post doctoral research associate working on functional characterisation of knockout mutants of Arabidopsis Kleovoulous (Kleo) Athanasiou (PhD) - Cyprus: Acclimation of photosynthesis to changes in growth light Kevin Crawford - UK -research technician Maclin Dayod (MPhil) - Indonesia - effects of waterlogging on barley photosynthesis Eduardo Perez Torres - Chile - regulation of photosynthesis in Antarctic vascular plants Alison Golding (PhD) - UK - role of cyclic electron flow in resisting drought stress in barley Sophia Semerdjieva (PhD) - Bulgaria - effects of UV stress in arctic shrub vegetation Joanne Clarke (PhD) - UK - effects of temperature on the regulation of photosynthesis Michael Rosevear (PhD) - NERC funded student, Acclimation of Native British Species Zu Hua Yin - NERC funded post doc -
Plant acclimation to fluctuating light
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