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Department of Plant Sciences

 

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Biography

Lucía is a 4th year PhD student in the Kromdijk Group, where she studies the physiology of photosynthesis. Her research focus is on the comparative analysis of C3 and C4 photosynthesis under dynamic light conditions, and on the photoprotective responses of each photosynthetic pathway. She is co-funded by The Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust and Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology.

 

Qualifications

2019  MBiolSci in Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of Sheffield, UK

 

Key publications

Activation of CO2 assimilation during photosynthetic induction is slower in C4 than in C3 photosynthesis in three phylogenetically controlled experiments (January 4, 2023), Frontiers of Plant Science

The influence of stomatal morphology and distribution on photosynthetic gas exchange (October 4, 2019), The Plant Journal

 

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Research Assistant
Lucia Arce Cubas

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Department of Plant Sciences,
Downing Street,
Cambridge,
CB2 3EA