• 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. Edwin receives Thomas Davies award

    Edwin was awarded the prestigious Thomas Davies award from the Australian Academy of Sciences; congrats Edwin! https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/researchers-study-fairy-circles-tree-rings-smoke-signals

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2020/01/15/edwin-receives-thomas-davies-award

  2. Fiona Kang new PhD student in the lab

    We welcome Fiona Kang as anew PhD student in the lab. Fiona will work on cell wall-related research in Marchantia.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2020/01/15/fiona-kang-new-phd-student-in-the-lab

  3. Dispatch piece in Current Biol

    Ghaz and Staffan wrote a dispatch piece for Current Biology on a paper that outline a microtubule-independent guiding mechanism of the CESA complex from the Cohen …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2020/01/15/dispatch-piece-in-current-biol

  4. Paper accepted in Bioinformatics

    A paper outlining an automatic pipeline for our quantitative actin organization tool was accepted in Bioinformatics

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2020/01/15/paper-accepted-in-bioinformatics

  5. Orianne Montulet new PhD student in the lab

    We welcome Orianne in the lab; a joint student in the Max-Planck UoM PhD program!

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2020/01/15/orianne-montulet-new-phd-student-in-the-lab

  6. ARC success 2019

    Marc was awarded an ARC DECRA and Staffan was a co-CI on a new electron microscope in this years ARC announcements. Congratulations.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2020/01/15/arc-success-2019

  7. Paper online in Plant Physiology

    Our collaborative paper with Dabing Zhang’s lab on how RMD influences gravitropism in rice shoots by modulating the actin cytoskeleton is now online in Plant Physiology; …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/08/16/paper-online-in-plant-physiology

  8. Paper accepted in Plant Physiology

    Our collaborative paper with the group of Dabing Zhang on actin organization and shoot graviresponses is now accepted in Plant Physiology.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/07/15/paper-accepted-in-plant-physiology-2

  9. Paper highlighted in Development

    Our recent paper in Development was highlighted with an editorial piece in the journal: http://dev.biologists.org/content/146/10/e1001

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/05/27/paper-highlighted-in-development

  10. Huizhen Xu gets a Norma Hilda Schuster Scholarship

    PhD student Huizhen Xu just received a Norma Hilda Schuster Scholarship of $5,000. Congrats!!

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/05/16/huizhen-xu-gets-a-norma-hilda-schuster-scholarship

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