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School of the Biological Sciences

 

 

 

Career Development Fellow, Sainsbury Laboratory

Chris Whitewoods aims to understand how plants pattern themselves in three dimensions, specifically how plants coordinate their overall leaf shape with intricate internal patterning to produce leaves that are exquisitely adapted to their function. Learn more. 

 

Research Areas


Plant morphogenesis
Leaf air space formation
Control of differential growth
Cell division and expansion
Intercellular adhesion

Techniques


Live imaging
Sector analysis
Inducable gene expression
Histology
Developmental modelling

Areas for Collaboration


Computational modelling of plant growth
Physiology of leaf air spaces
Cell wall mechanics 
 
 

 

Research Theme