DOCSLIB.ORG

Annual Report 2015

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Annual Report 2015 Annual Report 2015 Clare College Cambridge Contents Master’s Introduction .................................................................... 3 Teaching and Research .............................................................. 4–5 Selected Publications by Clare Fellows ....................................... 6–9 College Life ........................................................................... 10–12 Access & Outreach ..................................................................... 13 Financial Report ..................................................................... 14–15 Development ....................................................................... 16–17 List of Master & Fellows............................................................... 18 Captions ..................................................................................... 19 2 Master’s Introduction The past year has been full of many introductions for me two new CDs. They are fantastic ambassadors for the College and met some of our alumni in New as a relatively new Master - to student life in its various York - looking ahead; in 2016 they travel to Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore for more concerts. forms, to colleagues, and to our alumni at various events at home and abroad. The College continues to be in Last year I mentioned the need to refurbish Old Court, and this is still very much our priority. The good form, and weathering various new initiatives from Fellowship has just approved - in principle - plans which are now before Historic England, and we are central government, for example the green paper in now waiting for planning permission to renovate the beautiful buildings which make up Old Court. Higher Education which proposed radical changes in the You will know that we have been considering this project for a while, and most carefully as custodians sector in the UK. Fortunately on the access element of of these historic and nationally important buildings - we now have general approval for our fundraising the paper we are way ahead of the proposals. Clare is to start in earnest. We have approved an outline scheme which now does not change the main proud to be a leader within the world-leading institution appearance of Old Court, and renovates the building, including new wiring, plumbing and more ensuite which is Cambridge University - and proud to be part of rooms and public rooms. We also plan to improve disabled access by building on the narrow strip of Cambridge’s new Development Campaign which aims to land which lies between Clare and Trinity Hall, and this will enable us to make the basement buttery and maintain our high ranking as a global leader in education to the SCR and Fellows’ Library accessible. We also plan to extend this as far as the river, and create a and research. The campaign was launched last October River café room which will have stunning views over the Master’s garden and river. This will be used as and Clare’s development targets are part of the £2billion a social space and serve tea, coffee and snacks all day thereby relieving pressure on the buttery which that Cambridge hopes to raise. is very overcrowded - the extra 80 seats in this room will be a great addition to student and staff social life. The total cost of these elements is £35 million - with our fundraising target being at least £25million Many of our academics hold important positions within - the difference being made up of funds we are setting aside from our unrestricted endowment income the University too - Professor Phil Allmendinger is the and other income streams. Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor Howard Griffiths, who has been Acting President There is more detail in the Development Director’s report on page 16, and this is just one of the major of the Fellowship, is leading an initiative on global food security. Professor Ottoline Leyser’s work as elements of our fundraising campaign - our mission to support the best students, recruit and retain Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory (Plant Sciences) was highlighted in the University campaign launch the best academics to teach them, and to ensure the College’s long term future by building up the event. We have had three promotions of Clare Fellows to professorships, and one to reader in the endowment, remains as important as ever. summer 2015 round of promotions. Our Fellows are also good at spotting potential - in the Baxter On a sad note, we were very sorry to lose Sir Bob Hepple, our former Master, who died last year. Bob, tables last summer, Clare came top in the ‘value-added’ table - that is the one which shows how much who is much missed by all in our community, was not only a very distinguished lawyer, academic and a students have improved from their first year to their finals so we are excellent at spotting talent and fighter for freedom in apartheid South Africa, but also a man who embodied all that is best about Clare in nurturing it. being an intelligent, warm and friendly person who always had time for students and colleagues. These As well as their output in teaching terms, bringing forth another generation of young people who could are precisely the values that need to be sustained by the College as we face the challenges of the future. change the world, Clare Fellows have contributed hundreds of papers and publications to expand knowledge of everything from the activities of the earliest human societies to whether Spiderman could ever walk up walls! This year we were awarded not one, but two Pilkington Prizes for teaching with Dr Ed Turner Zoology and Professor Jim Woodhouse (Engineering) both winning prizes. However, in Cambridge it is not all about academic work - and I am pleased to say Clare students Lord Grabiner QC continue to do their bit for wider society. Clare students have been heavily involved in promoting Pink Master Week, which raises money for breast cancer care. The members of the Choir have somehow found time to go half way round the world again, performing in six US states in as many days, and releasing 3 Teaching and Research Undergraduate Numbers 2014–15 Undergraduates by country/region of origin Examination Results 2015 In the Baxter tables last summer, the main feature for Clare was Year Year Year Year Years coming top in the ‘value-added’ table, which shows how much Subject Total UK 1 2 3 4 5-6 students have improved from their first year to their finals - so EU our Fellows continue to excel at spotting talent and nurturing it. Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic 1 2 1 4 Overseas Architecture 1 2 3 Teaching and Fellows Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 3 2 2 2 9 A number of Clare Fellows have been promoted into senior Chemical Engineering 1 4 6 11 academic positions: James Rowe (Clinical Neurosciences), Classics 3 5 5 2 15 6% Anna Philpott (Oncology), David Howarth (Land Economy), Computer Science 2 2 4 8 4% and Andrew Preston (History) have been made professors; Economics 5 5 6 16 Dr Robert Semple (Clinical Biochemistry) was promoted to Reader. We are also very pleased to report that Ed Turner Education 1 1 (Zoology) and Jim Woodhouse (Engineering) both won Engineering 12 9 8 8 37 Pilkington Prizes for outstanding teaching – the thirteenth and English 8 11 10 29 fourteenth occasions such a prize has been won by a Clare Fellow in thirteen years. It is extremely unusual for a College Geography 1 1 3 5 to win two Pilkington Prizes in a year, and it demonstrates how History 7 8 8 23 much emphasis we put on teaching History of Art 1 1 1 3 Clare has been fortunate to be able to appoint some Human Social & Political Sciences 7 7 3 17 outstanding new academic Fellows in 2015: Dr David Land Economy 2 5 3 10 Chambers (Reader in Finance), The Rev’d Dr J Hawkey Law 10 2 5 17 (Theology; Dean), and Professor Jorge Vinuales (Law). Linguistics 1 2 3 6 Research Fellows appointed in 2015 were Mr Thomas Schindler (Mathematics), and Mr Benjamin Slingo (History). Mathematics 7 8 10 6 31 Medical and Veterinary Sciences 16 16 15 18 65 90% Modern & Medieval Languages 11 8 7 7 33 Music 4 4 4 12 Natural Sciences 29 26 42 15 112 Philosophy 2 2 1 5 Psychological & Behavioural Sciences 3 1 5 9 Theology 3 4 2 9 Total 140 136 141 55 18 490 4 Graduate Student Numbers 2014–15 PhD theses successfully defended by Clare graduate Novoa-Cain, M A: The protectors of Indians in the royal audience of students 2014-15 Lima: history, careers, and legal culture, 1575–1775 Peeters, M: Attention, awareness and prediction: lessons from classical Research postgraduates 260 Al-Safi, S W:Quantum theory from the perspective of general conditioning, disorders of consciousness and positive rewards probabilistic theories Taught postgraduates 27 Porter, D A: Neo-Latin formal verse satire from 1420 to 1616 Annett, S: On reading rightly wrongly: towards Samuel Beckett’s Total 287 Prescott, G W: Effects of land-use, landscape configuration, and ‘syntax of weakness’ management practice on biodiversity in tropical agricultural Bachman, M: The functions of cytosine modifications in DNA landscapes Bashynska, L: Gentry women and their networks in fifteenth-century Rea, A D: Fast tip-tilt correction at the MROI and beyond Norfolk Graduate Students by country/region of origin Sandoval, J L B R G: Modulation of breast cancer tumour-initiating Bower, R E: Epistolarity and the world republic of letters, 1980–2010 cells in cell lines and patient-derived tumour xenografts Causier, M L T: Viscoelastic behaviour of PBO fibres for use in a Tan, J L Y: Multi-axial fracture behaviour of notched
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Mothers in Science
    The aim of this book is to illustrate, graphically, that it is perfectly possible to combine a successful and fulfilling career in research science with motherhood, and that there are no rules about how to do this. On each page you will find a timeline showing on one side, the career path of a research group leader in academic science, and on the other side, important events in her family life. Each contributor has also provided a brief text about their research and about how they have combined their career and family commitments. This project was funded by a Rosalind Franklin Award from the Royal Society 1 Foreword It is well known that women are under-represented in careers in These rules are part of a much wider mythology among scientists of science. In academia, considerable attention has been focused on the both genders at the PhD and post-doctoral stages in their careers. paucity of women at lecturer level, and the even more lamentable The myths bubble up from the combination of two aspects of the state of affairs at more senior levels. The academic career path has academic science environment. First, a quick look at the numbers a long apprenticeship. Typically there is an undergraduate degree, immediately shows that there are far fewer lectureship positions followed by a PhD, then some post-doctoral research contracts and than qualified candidates to fill them. Second, the mentors of early research fellowships, and then finally a more stable lectureship or career researchers are academic scientists who have successfully permanent research leader position, with promotion on up the made the transition to lectureships and beyond.
    [Show full text]
  • BSCB Newsletter 2017D
    2017 BSCB Newsletter BRITISH SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY Meet the new BSCB President Royal Opening of the Crick Meeting reports 2017 CONTENTS BSCB Newsletter News 2 Book reviews 7 Features 8 Meeting Reports 24 Summer students 30 Society Business 33 Editorial Welcome to the 2017 BSCB newsletter. After several meeting hosted several well received events for our Front cover: years of excellent service, Kate Nobes has stepped PhD and Postdoc members, which we discuss on The head of a Drosophila pupa. The developing down and handed the reins over to me. I’ve enjoyed page 5. Our PhD and Postdoc reps are working hard compound eye (green) is putting together this years’ newsletter. It’s been great to make the event bigger and better for next year! The composed of several hundred simple units called ommatidia to hear what our members have been up to, and I social events were well attended including the now arranged in an extremely hope you will enjoy reading it. infamous annual “Pub Quiz” and disco after the regular array. The giant conference dinner. Members will be relieved to know polyploidy cells of the fat body (red), the fly equivalent of the The 2016 BSCB/DB spring meeting, organised by our we aren’t including any photos from that here. mammalian liver and adipose committee members Buzz Baum (UCL), Silke tissue, occupy a big area of the Robatzek and Steve Royle, had a particular focus on In this issue, we highlight the great work the BSCB head. Cells and Tissue Architecture, Growth & Cell Division, has been doing to engage young scientists.
    [Show full text]
  • Female Fellows of the Royal Society
    Female Fellows of the Royal Society Professor Jan Anderson FRS [1996] Professor Ruth Lynden-Bell FRS [2006] Professor Judith Armitage FRS [2013] Dr Mary Lyon FRS [1973] Professor Frances Ashcroft FMedSci FRS [1999] Professor Georgina Mace CBE FRS [2002] Professor Gillian Bates FMedSci FRS [2007] Professor Trudy Mackay FRS [2006] Professor Jean Beggs CBE FRS [1998] Professor Enid MacRobbie FRS [1991] Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS [2003] Dr Philippa Marrack FMedSci FRS [1997] Dame Valerie Beral DBE FMedSci FRS [2006] Professor Dusa McDuff FRS [1994] Dr Mariann Bienz FMedSci FRS [2003] Professor Angela McLean FRS [2009] Professor Elizabeth Blackburn AC FRS [1992] Professor Anne Mills FMedSci FRS [2013] Professor Andrea Brand FMedSci FRS [2010] Professor Brenda Milner CC FRS [1979] Professor Eleanor Burbidge FRS [1964] Dr Anne O'Garra FMedSci FRS [2008] Professor Eleanor Campbell FRS [2010] Dame Bridget Ogilvie AC DBE FMedSci FRS [2003] Professor Doreen Cantrell FMedSci FRS [2011] Baroness Onora O'Neill * CBE FBA FMedSci FRS [2007] Professor Lorna Casselton CBE FRS [1999] Dame Linda Partridge DBE FMedSci FRS [1996] Professor Deborah Charlesworth FRS [2005] Dr Barbara Pearse FRS [1988] Professor Jennifer Clack FRS [2009] Professor Fiona Powrie FRS [2011] Professor Nicola Clayton FRS [2010] Professor Susan Rees FRS [2002] Professor Suzanne Cory AC FRS [1992] Professor Daniela Rhodes FRS [2007] Dame Kay Davies DBE FMedSci FRS [2003] Professor Elizabeth Robertson FRS [2003] Professor Caroline Dean OBE FRS [2004] Dame Carol Robinson DBE FMedSci
    [Show full text]
  • The Control of Shoot Branching: an Example of Plant Information Processing
    Plant, Cell and Environment (2009) 32, 694–703 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.01930.x The control of shoot branching: an example of plant information processing OTTOLINE LEYSER Department of Biology, Area 11, University of York, York YO10 5YW, UK ABSTRACT the apical–basal axis defined by the establishment of the shoot apical meristem at one end, and the root apical mer- Throughout their life cycle, plants adjust their body plan istem at the other. Post-embryonically, the meristems give to suit the environmental conditions in which they are rise to the entire shoot and root systems, respectively. Fur- growing. A good example of this is in the regulation of thermore, the tissues they establish can produce secondary shoot branching. Axillary meristems laid down in each leaf meristems, which if activated can produce entirely new formed from the primary shoot apical meristem can remain axes of growth with the same developmental potential as dormant, or activate to produce a branch. The decision the primary root or shoot from which they were derived. whether to activate an axillary meristem involves the assess- Thus, the body plan of a plant is determined continuously ment of a wide range of external environmental, internal throughout its life cycle, allowing it to be exquisitely envi- physiological and developmental factors. Much of this infor- ronmentally responsive. Plants can alter their body plan to mation is conveyed to the axillary meristem via a network suit their environment, and thus the environmentally regu- of interacting hormonal signals that can integrate inputs lated development of new growth axes is functionally from diverse sources, combining multiple local signals to equivalent to environmentally regulated animal behav- generate a rich source of systemically transmitted informa- iours.
    [Show full text]
  • R.N.D. Royal Naval Division
    I RN.D.I Copyright© Leonard Sellers, 1998. ISSN. 1368-499X It might not always be possible to trace the copyright holders of all the material I will quote, and I would be pleased to hear fromany such persons to whom this applies. The picture on the frontcover is Commander Walter SterndaleBennett of the Drake Battalion. Please read the article on him in this issue of the R.N.D. pages 572 to 599. I would like to thank Commander R.D. SterndaleBennett for hispermission allowing me to reproduce this photograph. The R.N.D. is produced and designed at Honeysuckle House, 17a Bellhouse Road, Eastwood, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. SS9 5NL. (Telephone 01 702 521550) Ctl'RJ�TMTI� 6'R,eeTIN6� TO flkbRe11<ve'R� Of Ttte'R.N.®. Wi�tirn front. TO TI-IE REGIMENT A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. By Lieutenant A.P. Herbert Hawke Battalion. The winters on the Western Front resulted in terrible conditions on both officers and men. In this poem A.P. Herbert shows that even under th.e most trying of circumstances steps were taken to acknowledge that it was Christmas. So Christmas comes and finds you yet in Flanders, And all is mud and messiness and sleet, And men have temperatures and horses glanders, And Brigadiers have trouble with their feet, And life is bad forCompany-Commanders, And even Thomas' s is not so sweet. 511. Now cooks for kindle-wood would give great riches, And in the dixies the pale stew congeals, And ration-parties are not freefrom hitches, But all night circle like performing seals, Till morningbreaks and everybody pitches Into a hole some other person's meals.
    [Show full text]
  • Selective Auxin Agonists Induce Specific AUX/IAA Protein Degradation to Modulate Plant Development
    Selective auxin agonists induce specific AUX/IAA protein degradation to modulate plant development Thomas Vaina,1,2, Sara Raggia,1, Noel Ferrob, Deepak Kumar Barangea,c, Martin Kiefferd, Qian Maa, Siamsa M. Doylea, Mattias Thelandere, Barbora Parízkováf,g, Ondrej Nováka,f,g, Alexandre Ismailh, Per-Anders Enquistc, Adeline Rigala, Małgorzata Łangowskaa, Sigurd Ramans Harboroughd, Yi Zhangi, Karin Ljunga, Judy Callisj, Fredrik Almqvistc, Stefan Kepinskid, Mark Estellei, Laurens Pauwelsk,l, and Stéphanie Roberta,3 aDepartment of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden; bInstitute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany; cLaboratories for Chemical Biology Umeå, Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden; dCentre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Leeds, United Kingdom; eDepartment of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, The Linnean Centre for Plant Biology in Uppsala, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden; fLaboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic; gLaboratory of Growth Regulators, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic; hSup’Biotech, IONIS Education Group, 94800 Villejuif, France; iSection of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116; jDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; kDepartment of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium; and lCenter for Plant Systems Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, 9052 Ghent, Belgium Edited by Ottoline Leyser, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and approved February 6, 2019 (received for review May 25, 2018) Auxin phytohormones control most aspects of plant development transcriptional response.
    [Show full text]
  • Engage Festival 2020 Engagement, Innovation and Change
    Engage Festival 2020 Engagement, Innovation and Change National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement #Engage2020 @NCCPE 01 NCCPE Engage Festival 2020 Introduction We’re really looking forward to welcoming you to the Engage Festival 2020 The Engage Festival is a week-long extravaganza of over 60 live events inviting you to explore and reimagine the role and future of public engagement, as COVID-19 redefines our world. Running from Monday 30th November – Friday 4th December, we have developed a rich programme of thought-provoking talks, interactive workshops, immersive experiences, and lots of creative ways for people to connect and network. Everyone’s experience of our current context is different, and we have timetabled our content to be suitable for a range of availabilities and engagement preferences. We invite people to curate their own unique engagement experience, picking and choosing from the options on offer – and ensuring the conference is tailored to you. This draft programme outlines the sessions on offer during the festival, including the platforms they’ll be hosted on. Each workshop lead is listed, and they will all be joined in their sessions by contributors from the wider sector. The Engage Festival will also be broadcasting live every day! So why not tune in to find out what has been happening during the day, and hear delegates, workshops leaders and our festival reporters reflecting on the festival themes. It provide a great way to hear the latest news, and to catch up on what you have missed. Facilitated by Jamie Gallagher, the daily review livestream will broadcast every afternoon.
    [Show full text]
  • REPORTER S P E C I a L No 6 T U E S D Ay 24 a P R I L 2018 Vol Cxlviii
    CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER S PECIAL NO 6 T UE S D AY 24 A PRIL 2018 VOL CXLVIII MEMBERS OF UNIVERSITY BODIES REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY (‘OFFICERS NUMBER’, PARTS II AND III) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY [SPECIAL NO. 6 MEMBERS OF UNIVERSITY BODIES REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY P ART II: M E mb ER S OF U N I V ER S I T Y B ODIE S Nominating and appointing bodies: abbreviations 1 Faculty Boards and Degree Committees 18 Septemviri, Discipline Committee, University Tribunal 1 Committees 26 Discipline Board 2 Trustees, Managers, Awarders, of Funds, Council, Audit Committee, Finance Committee 2 Scholarships, Studentships, Prizes, etc. 32 General Board of the Faculties 2 Representatives of the Colleges for Election of Other Committees of the Central Bodies 2 Members of the Finance Committee 51 Boards of Electors to Professorships 6 P ART III: R EPRE S E ntAT I V E S OF th E U N I V ER S I T Y Advisory Committees for Elections to Professorships 7 Boards of Electors to offices other than Professorships 7 1. Representative Governors, etc. 52 Syndicates 8 2. Representative Trustees Associated with the Boards 9 University 53 Councils of the Schools 11 3. Cambridge Enterprise Ltd: Board of Directors 53 Appointments Committees 12 NOTICE BY thE EDITOR Following the publication of Part I of the Officers Number in February 2018, this issue of Part II (Members of University Bodies) and Part III (Representatives of the University) includes data received up to 13 April 2018. The next update of Part I (University Officers) will be published in Lent Term 2019 and an update to Parts II and III will follow shortly thereafter.
    [Show full text]
  • Concert Programme Senate House Library & the Institute of Historical Research Present
    CONCERT PROGRAMME SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY & THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH PRESENT.... Songs of Suffrage Music, readings & exhibition 1900-1930, with the Berkeley Ensemble Senate House Library and the IHR would like The Berkeley Ensemble was formed in 2008 to welcome you to a very special chamber by members of Southbank Sinfonia, Britain’s concert featuring the work of three female young professional orchestra, with the aim of composers active in the suffrage movement exploring the wealth of little-known twentieth – together with readings from their diaries and twenty-first century British chamber and letters, and from those of fellow suffrage music alongside more established repertoire. campaigners, narrated by Dr Kate Kennedy, It now enjoys a busy concert schedule broadcaster and historian. performing throughout the UK and abroad, and is also much in demand for its inspiring Music will be played by members of the work in education. Berkeley Ensemble and will celebrate the music of Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) and Dr Kate Kennedy is a well-known author Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), who were and broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and BBC prominent suffragists and members of the television. She is the consultant to Radio 3 Society of Women Musicians, and by Dorothy for their First World War programming and Howell (1898-1982) whose work was regularly a specialist in early to mid-twentieth-century premièred at the Proms from 1919, but is now British music. Kate is also Deputy Director of rarely heard. the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College, and teaches in both the English and The concert also has an accompanying Music Faculties.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Image
    December 2004.GARNish Edition 2 The official GARNet newsletter Model to crop Harvesting the benefits from Arabidopsis research Also in this Issue - ATIDB - MIAME Compliance - AGRIKOLA - Election Results - Useful Websites Pg 2 GARNish The official GARNet newsletter A word from our Chairman Contents I would first like to wish all members of the UK Arabidopsis and plant News and Views Pg 3 genomics communities a very happy Christmas and a prosperous and successful New Year. This is a good time of year to both reflect on the Arabidopsis Resources past and look forward to the future. GARNet is changing and evolving AGRIKOLA Pg 4 from a consortium of Arabidopsis genomics service providers with a ATIDB Pg 5 steering committee to a democratically based coordination and community John Innes Genome Lab Pg 6 liaison organisation representing UK plant genomics in it’s broadest sense. NASC Pg 7 For those of you not that aware of GARNet’s history Ottoline Leyser has written a brief summary below. The annual GARNet meetings have played Brassica Resources a central role in re-establishing a feeling of community among UK [Cover Story] Arabidopsis groups and the continuing success of these meetings will Harvesting the opportunity from Pg 8 spread to the plant genomics researchers. An account of our successful Arabidopsis research 5th meeting held at Leicester in September this year can be read on page Genomics Resources Pg 9 4. Technology and access to technology have been a central part of the News from NASC Pg 10 mission of GARNet and in this issue of GARNish we have articles describing Arabidopsis resources available at NASC and the JIC.
    [Show full text]
  • Network Trade-Offs and Homeostasis in Arabidopsis Shoot Architectures
    RESEARCH ARTICLE Network trade-offs and homeostasis in Arabidopsis shoot architectures 1 1 2 2 Adam ConnID , Arjun ChandrasekharID , Martin van Rongen , Ottoline LeyserID , 3 1 Joanne ChoryID , Saket NavlakhaID * 1 Integrative Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, 2 Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Plant Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America a1111111111 * [email protected] a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract Understanding the optimization objectives that shape shoot architectures remains a critical problem in plant biology. Here, we performed 3D scanning of 152 Arabidopsis shoot archi- tectures, including wildtype and 10 mutant strains, and we uncovered a design principle that OPEN ACCESS describes how architectures make trade-offs between competing objectives. First, we used Citation: Conn A, Chandrasekhar A, Rongen Mv, graph-theoretic analysis to show that Arabidopsis shoot architectures strike a Pareto optimal Leyser O, Chory J, Navlakha S (2019) Network that can be captured as maximizing performance in transporting nutrients and minimizing trade-offs and homeostasis in Arabidopsis shoot costs in building the architecture. Second, we identify small sets of genes that can be architectures. PLoS Comput Biol 15(9): e1007325. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007325 mutated to shift the weight prioritizing one objective over the other. Third, we show that this prioritization weight feature is significantly less variable across replicates of the same geno- Editor: Giovanni Stracquadanio, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM type compared to other common plant traits (e.g., number of rosette leaves, total volume occupied).
    [Show full text]
  • 2011-06-15-Mothers-In-Science.Pdf
    The aim of this book is to illustrate, graphically, that it is perfectly possible to combine a successful and fulfilling career in research science with motherhood, and that there are no rules about how to do this. On each page you will find a timeline showing on one side, the career path of a research group leader in academic science, and on the other side, important events in her family life. Each contributor has also provided a brief text about their research and about how they have combined their career and family commitments. This project was funded by a Rosalind Franklin Award from the Royal Society 1 Foreword It is well known that women are under-represented in careers in These rules are part of a much wider mythology among scientists of science. In academia, considerable attention has been focused on the both genders at the PhD and post-doctoral stages in their careers. paucity of women at lecturer level, and the even more lamentable The myths bubble up from the combination of two aspects of the state of affairs at more senior levels. The academic career path has academic science environment. First, a quick look at the numbers a long apprenticeship. Typically there is an undergraduate degree, immediately shows that there are far fewer lectureship positions followed by a PhD, then some post-doctoral research contracts and than qualified candidates to fill them. Second, the mentors of early research fellowships, and then finally a more stable lectureship or career researchers are academic scientists who have successfully permanent research leader position, with promotion on up the made the transition to lectureships and beyond.
    [Show full text]