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Prof. Christine Foyer
Christine Foyer is the Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Leeds, UK. She is also a Professor at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. She obtained her BSc at the University of Portsmouth, UK and her PhD at Kings College, London, UK. She joined the Photosynthesis Research Group at University of Sheffield, UK for her post-doctoral research. She was appointed as Research Director with her own group at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Versailles, France in 1988. She then became Head of Department first at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research in Wales and then at the Institute of Arable Crops Research (Rothamsted Research) in Harpenden, UK. She joined Africa College at University of Leeds, UK in April, 2009.
Christine has always been fascinated by plant metabolism, particularly reduction/oxidation (redox) biology and associated signaling. The goal of Christine’s research is to understand how primary processes (photosynthesis, respiration) influence cellular redox processes and so signal changes in environmental factors to elicit appropriate responses underpinning acclimation/adaptation to fluctuating conditions. Christine considers that the identification of climate-resilient species and nutrient-use efficient cultivars is key to future agriculture. She is the need to focus greater research attention on grain legumes to increase the contribution of pulses to global food production and sustainable agriculture and so eradicate hunger and malnutrition.
Christine is the General Secretary of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biologists and a member of the French Academy of Agriculture. She is an Associate Editor for Plant, Cell and Environment and the Biochemical Journal. She received the Founders Award from Plant Physiology in 2011 and is an elected member of the Council of the American Society of Plant Physiologists.
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Jonathan Ingram
Jonathan obtained a DPhil at the University of Oxford through research on the regulation of malate decarboxylation in CAM plants, and continued work on the molecular basis of drought tolerance in resurrection plants under a Royal Society Research Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. Following a move to Trends in Plant Science with Elsevier, he then spent time as Managing Editor at New Phytologist and Commissioning Editor at Journal of Experimental Botany. At Wiley Jonathan has managed an evolving portfolio of life science titles with particular focus in plant and environmental sciences, including Plant, Cell & Environment, Physiologia Plantarum and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews.
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