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Lecture 30th March - How Plants Use Biological Clocks to Welcome Spring and Avoid Economic Crisis

3/3/2015

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In the second in our series of joint lectures with the Edinburgh University Science Magazine (EUSci), Professor Andrew Millar will present a talk on how plants respond to springtime. What can we learn from plants about how to respond to our own environments?

Professor Millar is Chair of Systems Biology at Edinburgh University, and is also the associate director of SynthSys, a research centre for synthetic biology. He was previously involved in the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA), in GARNet, the UK's Arabidopsis research network, and was founding Director of SynthSys' predecessor, the Centre for Systems Biology at Edinburgh (CSBE).

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Talk abstract follows:


"Professor Andrew Millar’s research group uses mathematical models to study complex processes within cells, particularly the biological clock. The clock synchronises many biological processes with day and night, from the cell division cycle to the sleep-wake cycle. Plants use the clock to predict the duration of darkness, avoiding nightly starvation, and also to measure the lengthening days in spring, allowing seasonal flowering. The robustness of this biological system contrasts with the fragility of the financial system. The major cause of that economic fragility is surprisingly simple, yet shockingly unfamiliar."


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