Webinar: Caroline Dean and Jorge Casal
Caroline Dean: ‘Vernalization: non-coding transcription and epigenetic switching at FLC’
Caroline Dean is a Royal Society Professor at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK. She received her Bachelor’s and PhD degrees from the University of York in England. She has received numerous awards including the Darwin Medal, the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award, and the Wolf Prize in Agriculture. Her research is focused on gene regulation and the intersection of chromatin, transcription, and non-coding RNAs. @CarolineDeanLab
Jorge Casal: ‘Shade-avoidance signalling warms up’
Jorge Casal is a Professor at Fundación Instituto Leloir, an institute owned jointly by the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and the University of Buenos Aires. He graduated in Agronomy and obtained his Master in Plant Production at the Univerity of Buenos Aires, and obtained his PhD at the School of Biological Sciences of Leicester University, UK. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Georg Forster Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation. His main research interest is the perception and transduction of signals from the light environment by plants, and his studies range from molecular and cellular mechanisms to functional implications.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020
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