I am super chuffed to have been awarded a Human Frontiers grant with Tom Beeckman (VIB, Ghent), Rieko Fujinami (Kyoto University of Education) and Sandy Hetherington (Edinburgh University) to unmask key innovations enabling the origin of apical growth in vascular plants.
Weighted towards the ancient lycophyte group, our work aims to use fossils and phylogeny to identify the ancestral apex structure of vascular plants and to establish a lycophyte genetic model for comparative analyses of apical function in vascular plants.
Keep an eye out for four future post-doc positions to join us and work on this exciting project, and please get in touch if you are interested!
@HFSP, @BristolBioSci, @beeckman_tom, @fujinami_rieko, @Sandy_Heth, @InstMolPlantSci
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| Lycophyte (Selaginella kraussiana) shoot apices viewed by SEM |
