EVOLTREE Online seminar: "Hidden diversity and dynamics in rainforest trees"

13 November, 1400 CET, Dr Catherine Kidner, with Dr Rowan Schley: “Hidden diversity and dynamics in rainforest trees”

Dr Catherine Kidner is Head of Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and a Reader in Plant Evolution at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the genetics underlying species-level variation in plants. She combines classical genetics with high-throughput sequencing data (genomics, transcriptomics, hybrid capture) to study plant evolution. Dr. Kidner's work aims to understand the genetic changes that determine differences in plant growth and form. Notably, her research has resolved deep divergences in the legume phylogeny and supported the near-simultaneous evolutionary origin of all six subfamilies. She has been actively involved in a wide range of research projects related to speciation, gene duplication patterns, and biogeography and has advanced our understanding of plant diversity and evolution. Dr Rowan Schley is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter, whose research centres on speciation and hybridisation genomics in tropical trees, with a particular focus on whether hybridisation catalyses rapid diversification in species-rich tropical tree groups.

Links:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/kidner-group

https://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/staff/tropical-diversity/dr-catherine-kidner/

https://www.rowanschley.com/