Events

Seminar “Madelaine Bartlett “

Titel “‘What do we talk about when we talk about sex determination?’“

Date: 09.05.2025

Time: 15:00

Research interest:

We are interested in the molecular underpinnings of plant diversity. Which genes control the development of plants? And how have these genes changed over the course of evolution?

We focus specifically on the grasses to answer these fundamental questions about the genetic basis of plant development and morphological evolution. This remarkable family has diversified to occupy almost every terrestrial niche, and dominates many ecosystems. Multiple grass experimental systems allow us to dissect the molecular underpinnings of this diversity, and to reconstruct molecular and morphological evolution of key genes  and traits.

More information 

Madelaine recently moved from the University of Massachusetts to the Sainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University. Her lab studies plant EvoDevo, with a focus on grasses. They perform quantitative phenotyping, genetics, genomics, and comparative phylogenetic methods to discover how molecular evolution impacts the evolution of plant form.

https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/bartlett-group

The seminar will be about the evolution of floral sexuality, but her lab also studies development and evolution of grass awns, and evolution of conserved non-coding sequences in green plants. Let me know if you would like some time to talk with her about these other topics.