About
Agriculture and Food Security
Emily Shorter
I completed my Molecular Biology and Genetics degree at the University of Westminster in 2017, where I conducted a research project investigating the relationship between salivary telomere length and childhood obesity. I continued this research in the form of a summer placement in the same lab. I…

Erin Casey
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a drought-adapted mode of photosynthesis which reduces water loss by fixing CO₂ at night…

Ewan Young
My research involves examining the rate of degradation of mRNA transcripts encoding secreted proteins when the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) has been induced within the model organism Aspergillus nidulans.…
Flora Hetherington
My project is investigating the relationship between potassium availability, hormone signalling pathways and root architecture, in the model organism, Arabidopsis thaliana.…
George Jervis
I am attempting to further our understanding of hormonal crosstalk in root development, particularly under osmotic stress.…