Scientific and Technical Services
Staff directory
As Head of Scientific and Technical Services
Laura Forrest (ORCID;
Ruth has worked at RBGE for over 30 years, starting
Kanae is a member of the Scientific and Technical Support (STS) team and responsible for imaging facilities, i.e., microscopes. She also provides general support for daily laboratory maintenance, supervision of laboratory methods including morphology, molecular and next generation sequencing methods. She is a developmental biologist, and her main interest lies in unravelling the evolutionary history of plant stem cells organizing the shoot apical meristem, using the family Gesneriaceae as study material. She is also a visiting researcher in Kanagawa University in Japan.