• 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. Mike gives radio interview on plastic eating bacteria

    Mike Ogden did a radio interview on Nov 25th on plastic pollution and how to potentially mitigate it: link is here: https://www.3cr.org.au/radioblue

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/11/30/mike-gives-radio-interview-on-plastic-eating-bacteria

  2. Staffan on Clarivate/Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher list 2018

    For the third year in a row, Staffan is included as a highly cited researcher in the Clarivate’s (Thomson Reuter) list of top 1% cited researchers …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/11/30/staffan-on-clarivatethomson-reuters-highly-cited-researcher-list-2018

  3. Edwin receives William Stone grant

    Edwin received the prestigious William Stone Foundation grant of 30,000 for his work on pollen and thunderstorm asthma. Congrats!!

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/11/29/edwin-receives-william-stone-grant

  4. Staffan on the editorial board for International Journal of Molecular Sciences

    Staffan is now on the editorial board for International Journal of Molecular Sciences (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/sectioneditors/botany)

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/11/29/staffan-on-the-editorial-board-for-international-journal-of-molecular-sciences

  5. Ghaz and Felix successful with seed funding grants

    Ghaz and Felix were successful with their seed funding applications to the School of Biosciences’ cross-disciplinary scheme. Congrats!

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/11/29/ghaz-and-felix-successful-with-seed-funding-grants

  6. ARC success

    Staffan and Heather were successful in securing an ARC Discovery grant of $ 531,000. Yay!

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/11/28/arc-success

  7. Paper accepted in Nucleic Acid Res

    Our collaborative paper on tRNA modifications with Dr Chen Peng was just accepted in Nucleic Acids Research

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/11/26/paper-accepted-in-nucleic-acid-res

  8. Ghaz receives an ECR grant

    Ghaz was just awarded an Early Career Research grant from University of Melbourne. Total amount was $30,000. Congrats!!

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/11/06/ghaz-receives-an-ecr-grant

  9. Heather accepts faculty position at University of Toronto!

    Heather has accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Prof in the Dept of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto, starting in July …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/10/17/heather-accepts-faculty-position-at-university-of-toronto

  10. Pursuit article on our Nature Plants paper

    https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/engineering-plants-for-a-sustainable-future

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/persson-lab/2018/10/11/pursuit-article-on-our-nature-plants-paper

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