Kew: Millennium Seed Bank Project:

Some of our recent Postgraduate students

Postgraduate Training

Kew 's Seed Conservation Department provides taught modules and research opportunities for MSc and MRes programmes at the Universities of Birmingham, Sussex and Bedforshire, and currently supports 27 PhD students from 15 different countries:

Student	Country	Working Title
Crawford, Andrew	Australia	Ex situ seed conservation in Australia : factors affecting seed longevity
Hoyle, Gemma	Australia	Maternal environment effects on seed germination in Australian native species
Kochanek, Jitka	Australia	Maternal environment and provenance effects on the longevity of Australian native seeds
Soanes, Jessica	Australia	Overcoming dormancy and determining the effect of storage conditions on the viability of Australian orchid seeds
Tuckett, Renee	Australia	Biogeography and seed ecology of vernal pools in Western Australia
Kruger, Masego	Botswana	Impact of environmental pollution on seed and seedling quality
Vieira, Carlos Vinicio	Brazil	The re-induction of desiccation tolerance in germinated seeds of Tabebuia impetiginosa Mart
Gaméné, Christiane	Burkina Faso	Ex situ conservation strategies for Vitellaria paradoxa and Parkia biglobosa seeds
Chen, Hong-Ying	China	Role of reactive oxygen species in orthodox and recalcitrant seed longevity
Xia, Ke	China	Biogeography and seed desiccation tolerance in Fagaceae
Carasso, Valentina	Italy	Towards the ex situ conservation of Frittilaria tubiformis var moggridgei
Mattana, Efisio	Italy	Ex situ conservation of the most threatened endemic species of Sardinia ( Italy )
Abulaila, Khalid	Jordan	Ecology and storage physiology of terrestrial orchid seeds in Jordan
Andrianaivo, Oliva Andrianoelina	Madagascar	Genetic diversity and seed biology in Dalbergia
Chanyenga, Tembo	Malawi	Influence of population fragmentation on seed production, development, viability and subsequent natural regeneration of Widdringtonia whytei on Mulange Mountain
Sanogo, Sidi	Mali	Savannah species seed conservation
Mong, Christian	Norway	Seed germination and dormancy across environmental clines
Golding, Janice	South Africa	Measuring / predicting persistence potential of rare plants from South-central Africa using life history traits
Naidoo, Sershen	South Africa	Conservation biotechnology of Amaryllidaceae seeds
Birtic, Simona	UK	Programmed cell death in seeds
Newton, Rosemary	UK	The potential for long-term conservation and subsequent ultilization of Amaryllidaceae seed
Roach, Thomas	UK	Reactive oxygen species and seed quality
Claessens, Susanne	UK/NL	Molecular and biophysical dissection of changes in dormancy in Sisymbrium officinale and Arabidopsis thaliana
Ison, Jennifer L.	USA	Effects of non-random sampling of Prairie species on the genetic diversity of seed collections

Recently completed
Gray, Rowena	Australia	Biochemical basis of seed survival
Hamilton, Kim	Australia	Development of sustainable conservation technologies for selected Australian fruits
Cleiton Jose, Anderson	Brazil	Molecular basis of seed desiccation tolerance in Talauma ovata (Magnoliaceae)
Sina, Sibidou	Burkina Faso	Reproduction et diversité génétique chez Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) G.Don
Mondoni, Andrea	Italy	Seed ecophysiology in Italian rare and endemic species in the genera Anemone and Silene
Nyamongo, Desterio	Kenya	Maternal environment effects on seed germination and dormancy in Vernonia galamensis
Muthoka, Patrick	Kenya	Comparative longevity studies in the genus Euphorbia
Rakotondranony, Guy	Madagascar	Contribution à l’étude Ecologique et Economique d’un palmier endémique de Madagascar, le Ravenea rivularis en vue de l’élaboration d’une stratégie de gestion durable de ses peuplements naturels (cas d’Ilakaka)
Butler, Laura	UK	Minimising variability in seed development, quality and maturity for ex situ biodiversity conservation
Bird, Annette	UK	Thermal methods and comparative longevity in the genus Ranunculus
Webster, Rachel	UK	Molecular and biochemical basis of heat shock responses in Carica papaya seeds