Professor Keith Lindsey

About

Keith Lindsey is Professor of Plant Molecular Biology in the Department of Biosciences at Durham University. His research interests are in identifying and characterising gene-signalling networks that regulate plant development, and in particular root development and in responses to environmental stresses. We have been working on the signalling mechanisms that both require copper (ethylene hormone signalling) and regulate root responses to environmental copper, and have been working with Northumbrian Water Ltd., the SME Intelligent Gels and the Centre for Process Innovation to develop copper-based formulations to deter root invasion of water pipes. As part of the ELEMENTAL programme we are characterising the effects on plant growth and development of biologically generated copper nanoparticles, biosynthesised in the microbe Shewanella oneidensis as part of a biorecovery strategy developed at Manchester (Jon Lloyd).

Key areas of expertise:

· plant genetics

· developmental biology

· plant cell signalling

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