Dr. Marjorie Lundgren
Lancaster University
Marjorie is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and 2021 SEB Presidents Medallist in Plant Biology. She came to the Lancaster Environment Centre in 2018 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and won the Rank Prize New Lecturer Award in 2019. Prior to Lancaster, Marjorie did postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a visiting fellow at Harvard University, did her PhD and postdoctoral work at the University of Sheffield, and worked in industry at Mendel Biotechnology in California. She has been an active member of the SEB Plant Environmental Physiology Group throughout her academic career.
Her research group studies the evolution, biogeography, and eco-physiology of the vast array of photosynthetic diversity found in nature to identify the precise modifications that created the diverse range of photosynthetic metabolisms seen today. Her own research focuses on characterising and utilising photosynthetic diversity, with a particular focus on C3-C4 intermediate phenotypes and C2 photosynthesis. Her current work aims to engineer the rare C2 mode of photosynthesis into C3 Brassica crops to improve yield and stress tolerance of these important nutrient-dense crops.
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http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/lundgrenlab/
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@Marj_Lundgren
