Cintia Kawashima, Research Associate

Cintia graduated in Biological Sciences from the North Fluminense State University, Brazil and received her MSc in plant biotechnology from the same university in 2000. She was granted a Mombukagakusho scholarship and carried out her PhD on sulphur metabolism in Arabidopsis in the group of Kazuki Saito at Chiba University, Japan. Cintia moved to the UK in 2004 and worked, as an academic visitor, on polyamine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis (Institute of Food Research, Norwich), and as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Tamas Dalmay, working on the role of miRNAs in the regulation of sulphate assimilation in Arabidopsis (University of East Anglia, Norwich), prior to taking up her current position in the 2Blades Lab..

 

Nicolas Champouret, Research Associate

Nico graduated in Plant Breeding from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. During his PhD he identified and characterized resistance genes from wild Solanum species for durable resistance against late blight. Prior to that, he worked as a trainee in the group of Tomas Boller at the University of Basel and as a visiting scholar in the group of Sophien Kamoun at the Ohio State University. He received his MSc in fungal biotechnology from The University of Bordeaux II in 2002, and his BSc in cell biology and physiology from Burgundy University in 2000. His current research focuses on mapping, cloning and characterizing new stem rust resistance genes in wild wheat relatives.

 

 

Matthew Moscou, Research Associate

Matthew graduated with Bachelor of Science degrees in Pure Mathematics and Physics from the University of California, Riverside, USA, in 2004. Subsequently, after spending a year as a Programmer in Dr. Timothy Close’s laboratory at UCR, he started his PhD at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, in 2005. His research focused on gene expression and regulation during the interaction of barley with different obligate biotrophic fungal pathogens. He was awarded a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in May 2010 and has joined the 2Blades group at The Sainsbury Laboratory. His current research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms that restrict the host range of cereal rusts.

 

 

Costas Bouyioukos, Bioinformatics Specialist

Costas recently submitted his PhD thesis on Computational Systems Biology at the University of East Anglia. Prior to that, he was a visiting student at the University of Pennsylvania working on sequence analysis of microRNAs. He earned a diploma (MSc equivalent) in Agricultural Biotechnology and an MSc in Advanced Biotechnology from the Agricultural University of Athens.

 

 

 

 

Inmaculada Hernandez-Pinzón, Research Assistant

Inmaculada graduated in Biology from the University of Seville in 1991 and received her PhD in Biochemistry from the same University in 1997. Before joining the 2Blades group in 2010, she worked as a postdoc on different aspects of Plant Biology at the John Innes Centre, the University of East Anglia and the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomes (Spain).

 

 

 

 

Phon Green, Research Assistant

Phon graduated with a BSc and MSc in Agriculture from Kasetsart University, Thailand in 1991 and 1996, respectively. She received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study for a PhD at the John Innes Centre, Norwich from 1997 to 2000 on transformation of Thai rice with pest and disease resistance genes, before moving to the University of Florida for her postdoc. More recently, she has worked as a research assistant at the University of East Anglia and John Innes Centre on inositol phospholipid metabolism and microtubule associated proteins. Phon joined the 2 Blades group in September 2011.

 

 

Andrew Dawson, Student

Andrew graduated in Applied Biology from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle in 2010, before completing an MSc in Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement delivered jointly by the University of East Anglia and the John Innes Centre. Andrew’s current project focuses on identifying cereal rust effectors

 

 

 

 

John Ferguson, MSc Student

John recently graduated in Ecology from the University of East Anglia and is currently studying for an MSc in Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement at the University of East Anglia and the John Innes Centre. For his research project, John has joined the 2Blades group to investigate the genetic basis of resistance in barley to the fungal pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, which causes stripe rust in many cereal crop plant species.

 

Stuart Harder, MSc Student

 

Matthew Gardiner, Intern

Matt recently graduated with a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of East Anglia.  He joined the 2Blades group in October 2011 and is studying the interaction of various grasses and cereal rusts.

Stephen Cranwell, Intern

Stephen graduated from Clydebank High School in June 2011 and decided to take a gap year to get some work experience. He recently moved down to Norwich from Glasgow to start working for the 2Blades group and has also completed his application to several universities where he hopes to study biology in 2012.

 

Richard Payne, Rotation Student

Richard graduated with a Masters degree in Biochemistry (MBiochem) from the University of Oxford in 2011, and is currently on the Rotation PhD programme offered by the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Lab. For his second rotation, he has joined the 2Blades group to study the genetic basis of non-host resistance in barley to stripe rust.

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