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Cell function & responses to environment
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Professor Peter Grubb
Investigative Plant Ecology, retired
pjg12@cam.ac.uk
Dr David Hanke
Senior Lecturer, retired
deh1000@cam.ac.uk
Professor Enid Macrobbie
Professor of Plant Biophysics Emeritus, retired
eam1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Ed Tanner
Head of Tropical Ecology, Senior Lecturer, retired
evt1@cam.ac.uk
