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Visiting Scientist Seminar – Professor Alex Webb
Aug 3, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Professor Alex Webb – Circadian clock mechanisms in model plants and crops
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
WHEN: Thursday 3rd August 2023, 12pm
McLeod Theatre, Charles Hawker Building, Waite Campus
About the speaker
Professor Webb is a plant biologist who focuses on oscillating signalling networks. They are interested in determining how oscillating environmental and internal signals are decoded and transduced by plant cells. They have contributed to our understanding of circadian biology in plants by discovering that circadian clocks increase plant growth and performance, identifying and characterising a Ca2+-based signalling pathway that forms part of the circadian oscillator, demonstrating that the Arabidopsis circadian clock can entrain to photosynthesis-derived sugars and the molecular pathways involved, and providing insights in to the dynamic plasticity of circadian period and the mechanisms by which this occurs. These achievements were recognised by election as a Fellow of the Royal Academies of Belgium. Professor Webb is currently Deputy Head of the Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge and a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science Magazine.
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