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    • Infection and Immunity
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    • Bioscience Impact
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    • Trace Element Analysis
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Alex Webb

  • Group Lead, Department of Plant Sciences
Alex Webb

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Alex Webb performs physiological, genetic, systems and computational studies to understand how the circadian clock is incorporated in to the biology of the cell. Learn more about Alex's research.

 

Research Areas

  • Plant
  • Physiology
  • Signalling
  • Circadian

Techniques

  • Imaging
  • Transcriptomics
  • Genetics

Research Theme

Organisms, Evolution and Planetary Resilience 

 

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