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 AreasPlant morphogenesis
Leaf air space formation
Control of differential growth
Cell division and expansion
Intercellular adhesion
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TechniquesLive imaging
Sector analysis
Inducable gene expression
Histology
Developmental modelling
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Areas for CollaborationComputational modelling of plant growth
Physiology of leaf air spaces Cell wall mechanics |
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