Scientific and Technical Services

The Scientific and Technical Services (STS) section is responsible for the operation, maintenance and development of RBGE laboratory facilities

Providing laboratory facilities for 80-90 users per year

Delivering training and research support for plant science and conservation

 

The RBGE laboratories are a shared-use core facility available for use by all RBGE affiliated investigators, associates, postdocs and students.

The Science and Technical Services team provide specialist training and technical assistance to all users of the RBGE laboratories.

We also undertake research into technique development and apply this to a wide range of plant, fungi and environmental samples.

Science and Technical Services

The Team

As Head of Scientific and Technical Services

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Laura Forrest (ORCID;

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Ruth has worked at RBGE for over 30 years, starting

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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.

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