• 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. The Nature Comm research is featured in a Pursuit article

    Read more about this here: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/what-plant-proteins-can-tell-us-about-alzheimer-s

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/02/21/the-nature-comm-research-is-featured-in-a-pursuit-article

  2. Our paper in Nature Communication is now online

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08780-3

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/02/20/our-paper-in-nature-communication-is-now-online

  3. Paper accepted in Trends in Plant Science

    Our review on the evolution of cellulose synthesis and its components was just accepted in Trends in Plant Science

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/02/20/paper-accepted-in-trends-in-plant-science

  4. Staffan new section head at F1000

    Staffan will become new section head for plant cell biology section at Faculty 1000

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/02/08/staffan-new-section-head-at-f1000

  5. Development paper online

    Our collaborative paper with Zheng Yuan’s lab is now online: http://dev.biologists.org/content/early/2019/01/29/dev.173419

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/02/04/development-paper-online

  6. Collaborative paper accepted in Development

    Our paper on JAZ1 and rice development with the lab of Dabing Zhang and Zheng Yuan was just accepted in Development.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2019/01/23/collaborative-paper-accepted-in-development

  7. Staffan cited over 1000 times in 2018 at Google Scholar

    Staffan was cited over 1000 times in 2018 on Google Scholar; a nice barrier to break also for next year….

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/12/24/staffan-cited-over-1000-times-in-2018-at-google-scholar

  8. Paper accepted in Nature Communications

    Our follow-up story on the CC proteins and how they function was just accepted in Nature Communications. This was a great collaboration with the Oschkinat lab …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/12/24/paper-accepted-in-nature-communications-2

  9. Staffan awarded Thomas Davies Grant

    Staffan was awarded the Thomas Davies Research Grant for Marine, Soil and Plant Science via the Australian Academy of Sciences. https://twitter.com/Science_Academy/status/1074876257857286144

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/12/18/staffan-awarded-thomas-davies-grant

  10. Paper in Nucleic Acid Res online

    Our collaborative paper with A/Prof Chen Peng is now online: https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gky1205/5223939

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/12/03/paper-in-nucleic-acid-res-online

Number of posts found: 154