Chris Whitewoods
About
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
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