Professor Alex Webb

  • Head of Circadian Signal Transduction
Available to supervise doctoral students
Professor Alex Webb

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Alex Webb is Head of Circadian Signal Transduction at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Previous positions

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

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

1992 to 1998 - Postdoctoral Research Associate - Lancaster University, England

Qualifications

1992 - PhD - Lancaster University, England

1988 - BSc in Biology - University of Stirling, Scotland

Awards & Fellowships

Member - Académie royale de Belgique

Research

Research Group

Circadian Signal Transduction

Research Overview

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).

School of Biological Sciences Theme Affiliations

Organisms, Evolution and Ecology

Publications

Selected publications

Chronoculture, harnessing the circadian clock to improve crop yield and sustainability 30 April 2021 Science Gareth Steed, Dora Cano Ramirez, Matthew A Hannah & Alex A R Webb Circadian oscillations of cytosolic free calcium regulate the Arabidopsis circadian clock 20 August 2018 Nature Plants María Carmen Martí Ruiz, Katharine E Hubbard, Michael J Gardner, Hyun Ju Jung, Sylvain Aubry, Carlos T Hotta, Nur Izzati Mohd-Noh, Fiona C Robertson, Timothy J Hearn, Yu-Chang Tsai, Antony N Dodd, Matthew Hannah & et al Photosynthetic entrainment of the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock 23 October 2013 Nature Michael J Haydon, Olga Mielczarek, Fiona C Robertson, Katharine E Hubbard & Alex A R Webb The Arabidopsis Circadian Clock Incorporates a cADPR-Based Feedback Loop 14 December 2007 Science Antony N Dodd, Michael J Gardner, Carlos T Hotta, Katharine E Hubbard, Neil Dalchau, John Love, Jean-Maurice Assie, Fiona C Robertson, Mia Kyed Jakobsen, Jorge Gonçalves, Dale Sanders & Alex A R Webb Plant Circadian Clocks Increase Photosynthesis, Growth, Survival, and Competitive Advantage 22 July 2005 Science Antony N Dodd, Neeraj Salathia, Anthony Hall, Eva Kévei, Réka Tóth, Ferenc Nagy, Julian M Hibberd, Andrew J Millar & Alex A R Webb

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students

Undergraduate Natural Science Tripos Part 1A Biology of Cells - 6 lectures on Intracellular Signalling

Undergraduate Natural Science Tripos Part 1B Plant and Microbial Sciences - 3 practical classes on Arabidopsis Transformation

Undergraduate Natural Science Tripos Part 1B Cell and Developmental Biology - 2 lectures on Intercellular Signalling

Undergraduate Plant Sciences Part II Plant Sciences - 9 lectures on Plant Signalling Netowrks