Webinar: Jiří Friml and Nicola Patron

Jiří Friml: (Title TBA) 

Jiří Friml is a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Austria. He received PhDs from the University of Cologne, in Germany, and Masaryk University, in Brno, Czech Republic. Before moving to IST, he was a Group Leader and Professor in Tübingen, Göttingen, and Ghent. He has won numerous awards including ASPB’s Charles Albert Shull Award, the EMBO Gold Medal, and more recently the Neuron Award for Contribution to Science from the Czech Republic. His research focuses on mechanisms underlying plants’ adaptability during embryonic and postembryonic development, with a particular interest in the mechanisms of polar auxin transport.

 

Nicola Patron: (Title TBA) 
Nicola Patron is a Group Leader at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK. She has a PhD in plant molecular biotechnology and did post-doctoral research at the John Innes Centre and University of British Columbia (Canada). After a research stint in Australia, she returned to the UK to head a new Synthetic Biology venture at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich before moving to the Earlham Institute. Her research focuses on engineering photosynthetic organisms for industrial biotechnology and crops that are healthier to consume and less environmentally damaging to cultivate. @nicolabiologist

 

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
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