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Lab Members - Team Leubner - Group for Seed Biology and Engineering

Group Royal Holloway University of London July 2016

The Leubner Group for Seed Biology and Engineering in July 2016, Royal Holloway University of London.



Professor Gerhard Leubner
Chair of Plant Biochemistry,
Royal Holloway University of London
Seed Biology and Technology Laboratory (lead)

Email: Gerhard.Leubner@rhul.ac.uk
Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London
Bourne Building 3-30 Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX United Kingdom
Phone 01784-44-3553 (office 3-30) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)
Web 'The Seed Biology Place' - www.seedbiology.eu

Research interests: "About Dr Gerhard Leubner"
University Website: Prof Gerhard Leubner

Research into Plant, Seed and Food Supply Chain Security and Sustainability. We are a motivated group of young scientists with interest in fundamental and applied research in seed biology and engineering. Explore this website for molecular mechanisms of seed traits such as germination, dormancy, longevity, and vigour, as well as for our projects on seed technology and seedling performance with seed industry. Impactful research into improving crop seed quality through environmentally sustainable technologies to benefit the seed industry and promote food security.

Gerhard Leubner

 

Dr Tina Steinbrecher
Senior Lecturer in Seed Technology and Biomechanics
Royal Holloway University of London
Seed Biology and Technology Laboratory (lead)

Email: Tina.Steinbrecher@rhul.ac.uk
Phone: 01784-44-3553 (office 3-29A) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • The biomechanics of seed germination, endosperm weakening and the biophysics of seed and fruit traits
  • The biomechanics and uniformity of seedling establishment upon abiotic stress
  • Seed and fruit dispersal biophysics, including diaspore heteromorphism and bet-hedging
  • Crop seed technology projects with industry, including on the propetries of pellet materials and gas plasma agriculture
  • Impactful research into improving crop seed quality through environmentally sustainable technologies to benefit the seed industry and promote food security
University Website: Dr Tina Steinbrecher

  Dr Tina Steinbrecher

Aishwarya Shankhapal
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
MimicWeed collaboration Project with Syngenta and Rothamsted Research

Email: Aishwarya.Shankhapal@rhul.ac.uk
Phone: 01784-44-3769 (office 5-17) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • MimicWeed - Morphological, hormonal and genomic mechanisms of seed dormancy, germination and seedling vigour in weedy crop grass mimics
  • Secondary dormancy of grass weeds
  • Mechanisms of weed evolution and de-domestication
  • Hormonal regulation of weed dormancy and germination
  • Weed seed bank ecophysiology and innovative weed management strategies
University Website: Aishwarya Shankhapal
Project Websites: MimicWeed BBSRC-IPA project UKRI702

  Giles Grainge

Leanne Yeung
iCASE PhD Student funded the LiDo DTP and Syngenta
Understanding roles and mechanisms of weed persistence

Email: Leanne.Yeung.2024@live.rhul.ac.uk
Phone: 01784-44-3769 (office 5-17) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • Understanding the impact of biophysical and biochemical composition of seed covering layers on weed persistence and response to environmental conditions
  • Seed
  • Seed
  • Seed
University Website: Leanne Yeung
Main supervisor: Dr Tina Steinbrecher

  Thomas Holloway

Joseph King
PhD Student funded by Royal Holloway and KWS
Understanding roles and mechanisms of the seed microbiome

Email: Joseph.King.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk
Phone: 01784-44-3769 (office 5-17) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • Understanding the seed microbiome of Beta vulgaris: from physiology to field trials
  • Biologicals as sustainable agri-technology for climate-resilient crop production
  • Seed
  • Seed
University Website: Leanne Yeung
Main supervisor: Prof Gerhard Leubner

  Thomas Holloway

Johathan Binder
iCASE PhD Student funded the LiDo DTP and Syngenta
Understanding and simulating blackgrass seed persistence and soil seed bank dynamics

Email: Jonathan.Binder.2022@live.rhul.ac.uk
Phone: 01784-44-3769 (office 5-17) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • Understanding and simulating blackgrass seed persistence and soil seed bank dynamics
  • Seed
  • Seed
  • Seed
University Website: Jonathan Binder
Main supervisor: Prof Gerhard Leubner

  Thomas Holloway

Xiangyu Yu
PhD Student in collaboration with Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
Morphophysiological characterisation of trait biodiversity Amaranthaceae seed responses

Email: Xiangyu.Yu.2023@live.rhul.ac.uk
Phone: 01784-44-3769 (office 5-17) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • Morphophysiological characterisation of trait biodiversity and mechanisms of Amaranthaceae seed responses to abiotic stresses
  • Seed
  • Seed
  • Seed
University Website: Xiangyu Yu
Main supervisor: Dr Tina Steinbrecher

  Thomas Holloway

Carlos Eduardo Schaedler
Professor in Weed Science and Field Crop - IF Sul-rio-grandense, Pelotas, Brazil
Visiting Academic in the Seed Biology and Technology Laboratory

Email:carlosschaedler@ifsul.edu.br
Phone: 01784-44-3769 (office 5-17) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • Mechanisms and ecology of seed dispersal by animals (endozoochory) to spread of weed species in agricultural systems
  • Seeds
  • Seeds
  • Seeds
University Website:
Project Websites: MimicWeed BBSRC-IPA project UKRI702

  Giles Grainge

NN
Seed Science Junior Technician
Seed Biology and Technology Laboratory

Email:
Phone: 01784-44-3769 (office 5-17) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • MimicWeed - Morphological, hormonal and genomic mechanisms of seed dormancy, germination and seedling vigour in weedy crop grass mimics
  • Seeds
  • Seeds
  • Seeds
University Website:
Project Websites: MimicWeed BBSRC-IPA project UKRI702

  Giles Grainge

Nahema Venceslai
BBSRC iCASE PhD Student LiDo DTP
Project on Molecular Weed Seed Ecophysiology with Syngenta

Email: Nahema.Venceslai.2020@live.rhul.ac.uk
Phone: 01784-44-3769 (office 5-17) (from abroad: replace 0 with 0044 or ++44)
Phone: 01784-44-3909 (lab 2-04)

Research interests:
  • Ecophysiological and molecular mechanisms of black-grass weed seed bank persisternce
  • Seed
  • Seed
  • Seed
University Website: Nahema Venceslai
Main supervisor: Prof Gerhard Leubner

  Thomas Holloway

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Lab Members University Freiburg - Seed Biology Group Leubner in August 2011

Group in Freiburg August 2011

The Seed Biology Group Leubner in August 2011. Photographer: Ruwen Kaminiski


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