Dr Maria Eriksson MSc, PhD

Maria Eriksson is an Assistant Professor at Umeå Plant Science Centre, Dept. of Plant Physiology, University, Sweden. She obtained her BSc at Uppsala University, MSc at Umeå University and her PhD (2000) from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences on the regulation of growth of aspen trees. During 2001-2003 she held a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship at the Department of Biological Sciences, Warwick University, for studies on the plant circadian clock. Since then her research has centered on understanding the role of the circadian clock in regulation of daily and seasonal growth responses using both annual and perennial plants. Her work has pinpointed the importance of a functional clock for the perennial life style as well as new components of the plant clock. She will use her By-Fellowship to expand her work to comprise how the clock participates in stress responses for example in cold.

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