Title: Manipulating cuticular wax composition and structure to optimise carbon fixation and oil yield in Brassica oilseed crops

Speaker: Frederic Beaudoin

Time: 10:00, September 9, 2016 

 Location: Meeting room 2, Administration building   

Frederic Beaudoin is the senior scientist and project Leader at Rothamsted Research. He was recently appointed as a special associate professor of Plant biotechnology at the University of Nottingham. Dr. Beaudoin is a specialist in plant lipid metabolism and biotechnology. He has experience in metabolic engineering of plants (oilseeds), yeast and microalgae including fifteen years investigating the biosynthesis of very long chain fatty acids and their role in growth and development. Over the past ten years the main research projects of Beaudoin’s lab have involved manipulating plant lipid composition to enhance human nutrition, as well as for sustainable production of fuel, lubricants, and chemicals feedstock's. More recently his lab also started using high throughput lipidomic profiling and association genetic methods to identify the genetic components controlling quantitative variation of traits representing biorefining opportunities in the oilseed crop B. napus (e.g. cuticular waxes from straw, seed phytosterols).