Posted by Jill Harrison, on 13 November 2019
Supervisors: Jill Harrison and Tom Gorochowski Project Description Summary: Plant shape is a primary determinant of productivity and yield because it affects light interception and photosynthesis. As plant cells are ...Posted by Jill Harrison, on 13 November 2019
Supervisors: Jill Harrison, Keith Edwards and Chris Burt (RAGT Seeds) Project Description Summary: Ensuring continuous global food security will be a major challenge of the 21st century, and wheat contributes ...Posted by Jill Harrison, on 24 August 2018
Very excited to invite applications from post-doctoral researchers to join my lab to work on a Leverhulme Trust- funded project to look at the mechanisms regulating branching in Selaginella kraussiana. ...Posted by Jill Harrison, on 1 August 2018
A perspective on our recent paper ‘CLAVATA was a genetic novelty for the morphological innovation of 3D growth in land plants’1. In the 1950’s, the German botanist Walter Zimmermann ...Posted by Jill Harrison, on 17 October 2017
Supervisors: Dr Jill Harrison and Dr Martin Homer. Plant shapes range from tiny string or mat-like forms to massive multilayered upright forms with complex organ systems such as shoots, roots ...Posted by Jill Harrison, on 17 May 2024
I am recruiting to an open post-doctoral position on the origin of apical growth in plants. The project is collaborative and will involve: Moss mutagenesis and a screen for mutants with defective sporangia Establishment of a method forSelaginella transgenesis using extensive preliminary data to guide experiments Reverse genetic analysis of Selaginella CLAVATA gene function. There […]
Posted by Jill Harrison, on 15 February 2024
Very excited to be able to advertise a post-doc opening to join a HFSP project on the origin of apical growth in vascular plants. The project focusses on lycophytes, and ties together analyses of fossil and living lycophyte morphology with transcriptomic and developmental and genetic studies. It will involve collaboration with partners in Edinburgh (Sandy […]
