Juliet Coates

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Juliet Coates’s research interest is in understanding development and evolution, particularly in plants and green algae. She runs a research group that works primarily with moss, green seaweed and Arabidopsis, but also with liverworts, spikemoss, grasses and green microalgae. Her group uses molecular genetics, cell biology and ‘omics approaches to understand gene and protein function in these systems. She also uses more culture-based and physiological assays to understand plant and algal development and growth. One of her key research interests is in evolutionarlly ancient protein families that are required for multicellular development across eukaryotic kingdoms. Her lab is also interested in signalling mechanisms that control biological processes. These developmental processes are of huge agricultural importance and are critical for plant growth responses to changing environments. Her group plans to use data from model organisms to inform research to manipulate root development in cereals and grasses.

Dr Coates plans to use high-throughput technologies to understand how green algae grow and develop. As algae are an under-exploited resource for food, fuel and pharmaceuticals, understanding their basic biology is an important direction for future research.

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Thomas Wichard

  • Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

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Bénédicte Charrier

  • Sorbonne Université

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Kristian Ullrich

  • University of Marburg

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Olivier de Clerck

  • Ghent University

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Jinhong Yuan

  • Univ Freiburg

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Kerrie BArry

  • Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute

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Daniel Holloway

  • University of Birmingham

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Anna Lipzen

  • Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute

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R Tewari

  • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

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Gianmaria Califano

  • Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

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Jeremy Schmutz

  • Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute

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Manuel Hiss

  • University of Marburg

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Jane Grimwood

  • HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL

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Avinash Sreedasyam

  • HudsonAlpha Inst Biotechnol
  • HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL

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Mojgan Amirebrahimi

  • Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute

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Junyan Lin

  • Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute

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Haodong Chen

  • Peking University

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Deborah Kohn Damiano

  • University of Birmingham

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Katherine Tagg

  • University of Birmingham

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Xiaoguang Liu

  • Jiangsu Univ

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Anouchka Guyon-Debast

  • Inst Jean Pierre Bourgin

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Daniel Lang

  • Helmholtz Zentrum München

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Mariana Ricca

  • University of Zurich

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Miguel Camara

  • University of Nottingham

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Z Xu

  • IN2P3
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Gary Stacey

  • Univ Missouri

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Wesal Tanko

  • University of Birmingham

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Hansol Bae

  • Danish Tech Univ

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Bernd Reiss

  • Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

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Ning Sun

  • Peking University

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Kirsty Jones

  • University of Birmingham

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Daniel McLeod

  • University of Birmingham

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Kiran Kaur Bansal

  • University of Birmingham

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Catherine Rameau

  • Inst Jean Pierre Bourgin

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Sandrine Bonhomme

  • Inst Jean Pierre Bourgin

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Tomomichi Fujita

  • Hokkaido University

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Nigel Halliday

  • University of Nottingham

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Helena Abreu

  • Travessa Alexandre da Conceição, ALGAplus Lda, Ílhavo, 3830-196, Portugal.

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Ute Voss

  • University of Nottingham

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Jan-Frieder Mohr

  • Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

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Henrik Toft Simonsen

  • Danish Technical University

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Christos Katsaros

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Roberto Bassi

  • Univ Verona

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Ellen Collas

  • University of Birmingham

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Julien Lavenus

  • University of Nottingham

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Susan Harding

  • University of Birmingham

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Ralf Reski

  • Univ Freiburg

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Bethany Burns

  • University of Birmingham

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