PhD student (John Innes Foundation rotation)
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I am a second-year PhD student on the John Innes Foundation Rotation PhD programme. My main project focuses on how the timing of leaf senescence in wheat is regulated, as this affects the nutritional properties of the wheat grain, such as yield and protein content. In particular, I am looking at transcription factors, and aim to both identify new transcriptional regulators of senescence and understand potential coordination between known transcription factors.
I completed my BA in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where I also obtained an MPhil in Plant Sciences, supervised by Dr. Tina Schreier and Dr. Julian Hibberd. During this project, I investigated the polar positioning of chloroplasts in bundle sheath cells of C4 plants.
Publications
Oddy, J., Chhetry, M., Awal, R., Addy, J., Wilkinson, M., Smith, D., King, R., Hall, C., Testa, R., Murray, E., Raffan, S., Curtis, T. Y., Wingen, L., Griffiths, S., Berry, S., Elmore, J. S., Cryer, N., Moreira de Almeida, I., & Halford, N. G. (2023). Genetic control of grain amino acid composition in a UK soft wheat mapping population. The Plant Genome. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20335
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