• perssons

    Staffan Persson completed his PhD in Dec, 2003. The degree was a joint PhD degree between Lund University (Sweden) and North Carolina State University (US). He then pursued a postdoc at the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford University 2004-2007 with prof Chris Somerville. Staffan was appointed as a Max-Planck Group Leader at the MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP) in Potsdam in 2008, where he stayed until 2014. Since Jan 2015 Staffan is a R@MAP professor at the School of BioSciences at University of Melbourne. The research in his group aims at understanding how plants are producing cellulose, which is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth and a raw material for many industries, including paper, textiles and fuel.

  1. Collaborative paper accepted in Plant Biotech Journal

    Our paper on over-expression of primary wall CESAs with the Peng lab at HZAU, China was just accepted in Plant Biotech Journal

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/09/21/collaborative-paper-accepted-in-plant-biotech-journal

  2. Paper accepted in Plant Cell

    Our paper that outline two complementary mechanisms for how secondary wall synthesis is patterned was just accepted in Plant Cell.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/09/08/paper-accepted-in-plant-cell-2

  3. Paper accepted in Journal of Cell Science

    Our review on cell wall synthesis (part of the at a glance review series) was just accepted in Journal of Cell Science.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/08/17/paper-accepted-in-journal-of-cell-science

  4. Rene Schneider successful in getting CBRI grant

    Rene just got a CBRI grant (approx 20,000 AUD) to conduct research on the patterning of cell walls in collaboration with Eva Deinum and Edmund Crampin…congrats!

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/08/16/rene-schneider-successful-in-getting-cbri-grant

  5. We welcome Hsiang-Wen Chen to the lab

    Hsiang-Wen, a new PhD student who is part of the MPI/UP-UoM joint PhD program, just arrived to the lab.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/08/16/we-welcome-hsiang-wen-chen-to-the-lab

  6. Science Advances article online

    Our paper with the van de Peer group, led by Persson lab alumnus Colin Ruprecht, on ancient polyploidy events in plants is now online here http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1603195.full

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/07/06/science-advances-article-online

  7. PNAS paper on actin organization is online

    Our paper on quantification of actin organization and Golgi flow is now online in PNAS: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/26/1706711114.full

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/06/28/pnas-paper-on-actin-organization-is-online

  8. Staffan on editorial board of new journal, The Cell Surface

    Staffan is an editorial board member of the new journal “The Cell Surface” that targets the interface of membranes and cell walls in all species; https://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-cell-surface

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/06/21/staffan-on-editorial-board-of-new-journal-the-cell-surface

  9. New Phytologist paper online

    Our paper with the Mutwil group on the Brachypodium tissue atlas is now online http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14635/abstract

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/06/18/new-phytologist-paper-online

  10. Zheng Li awarded the Megan Klemm Postgraduate Research Award

    Congrats to Zheng for this years Megan Klemm Postgraduate Research Award!

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2017/05/30/zheng-li-awarded-the-megan-klemm-postgraduate-research-award

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