Projects

What is PlaSMo? PlaSMo stands for Plant Systems-biology Modelling Ensuring the achievements of yesterday's Mathematical Modellers will be available for the Systems Biologists of tomorrow.

Our aims

To identify plant mathematical models useful to the UK plant systems biology community, which are currently in a variety of legacy formats and in danger of being lost

To represent these models in a declarative XML-based format, which is closer to the systems biology standard SBML To evaluate the behaviour ...

Andrew Millar's research group, University of Edinburgh

For plants, light is a signal that carries information about the environment, and a source of energy for photosynthesis. PHYTOCAL focuses on the interaction between phytochrome signalling and photosynthesis, and seeks to understand fundamental processes that make carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) resources available for plant growth. These unexplored connections underlie biomass production and plasticity, which contribute significantly to yield variability in the field.

optogenetic control of plant signaling

Collaboration with Miltos Tsiantis for reconstructing RCO transcriptional regulation

improvement of PULSE, derivation of tools for ontogenetic control of interesting pathways

Modulation of light, temperature and time networks using prime editing and mathematical modelling

generation of a toggle switch based on a non-cooperative network

This projects seeks to uncover how phytochrome signalling modulates leaf architecture

How light control development