Dr Tamara Hernandez-Verdeja
Senior Research AssociateResearch Overview
Tamara research interest is to understand the molecular mechanisms that regulate plant development in response to environmental cues and challenges. In the course of her career she has successfully investigated this problem from physiological, biochemical, molecular and genetic perspectives using the model organisms Arabidopsis and poplar. Although chloroplast biogenesis and function are essential and required for proper plant development and adaptation to environmental stresses, the molecular mechanisms and their potential applications in crop biotechnology remain largely unexplored. Her previous research focused on plastid-to-nucleus signalling during chloroplast biogenesis, and currently she is leading the UKRI program to engineer C2 photosynthesis in C3 crops.
FLF
15/06/2023 → 15/10/2023
Research
Plastid Preview 2024
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Plant Cell Atlas
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
PhD Thesis defence (Event)
Membership of committee
XVII Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Fascination of Plants Day 2024
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Time traveling through Plant and Crop Sciences at Lancaster
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
The role of GLKs in C2 photosynthesis
Invited talk
Plastid Preview
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The challenges of turning green: Signalling during chloroplast development
Invited talk
PhD thesis defence (Event)
Membership of committee
Light Up Lancaster
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Plastid Preview 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Fascination of Plants Day
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Plastid Preview 2024 Best Poster Award
Prize (including medals and awards)