Mike Deeks (PI)
Please see university profile (here) and ‘what we do,’ plants@exeter.
Amber Connerton (PhD student)
Amber is working to understand how several different plant signalling pathways converge to guide exocytosis to sites of pathogen response. This requires a combination of microfabrication techniques, laser-scanning and spinning disk confocal microscopy, as well as molecular biology to generate Arabidopsis thaliana lines for imaging in mutant backgrounds.
Noah Walker (PhD student)
Noah is studying the production and function of antioxidants in phytopathogenic fungi. This project is highly collaborative with interactions with the Smirnoff laboratory to measure metabolites and with Prof Kim Hammond-Kosack at Rothamsted Research to synergise with national efforts to improve wheat crop protection.
Hannah Kilford (PhD student)
Hannah is an EPSRC-funded PhD student supervised by Wolfram Moebius but based for much of her PhD within our plant molecular laboratory. Hannah is using multiple strains of Tobacco Etch Virus (TEV) to test models of viral population dynamics in plants. This has required the construction of plasmid-encoded viruses and whole-plant fluorescence imaging.
