Staffan Persson 24th Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis 2016

Staffan Persson

Staffan Persson received his doctorate degree from Lund University (Sweden)/North Carolina State University (USA) in Dec, 2003, and then did a postdoc at the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford University. He was a Max Planck research group leader at the MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany, between 2008 and 2014. Staffan has recently accepted a R@MAP Professor position and chair in plant cell biology at the University of Melbourne, where he started in early 2015 at the School of Bioscience (affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Cell Walls). Additionally, Staffan serves on the editorial boards of several international journals and is a Changjiang scholar and visiting professor at the HZAU Agricultural University, China. Staffan’s research group investigates plant cell walls with a focus on the communication between the cell wall and the cell, trafficking of the cellulose synthase to and from the plasma membrane, and the influence of cellulose deposition on cell and organ shape.