Professor Alex Webb

 

My research focuses on working out how plants measure time by studying a 24-hour timing device called the circadian clock and identifying how the circadian clock provides benefits to plants to maximise plant growth and productivity. My group is particularly interested in how the circadian oscillator regulates physiology (e.g. Ca2+ signalling) and how the oscillator is regulated by physiological signals (e.g. sugars from photosynthesis).

 

 

Teaching

• 1A Biology of Cells - 6 lectures on Intracellular Signalling
• 1B Plant and Microbial Sciences - 3 practical classes on Arabidopsis Transformation
• 1B Cell and Developmental Biology - 2 lectures on Intercellular Signalling
• Part II Plant Sciences - 9 lectures on Plant Signalling Netowrks

 

2006-present Head of Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

1998-2006 Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Cambridge 

1992-1998 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lancaster University

 

1988-1992 PhD, Lancaster University 

1985-1988 BSc Biology, University of Stirling

 

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