Professor Jane Langdale Jane is Professor of Plant Development at the University of Oxford, and is the current coordinator of the C₄ Rice Project. Her research focuses on how developmental mechanisms changed during the evolution of land plants. In the context of C₄ rice, this relates to understanding how Kranz anatomy develops in C₄ plants and then using the knowledge gained to engineer leaf anatomy in rice. She is an elected Member of EMBO, a Fellow of The Royal Society, an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science.

Dr Sovanna Tan Sovanna is a postdoc in the Langdale lab. She obtained a  PhD in Plant Sciences at the Paris-XI/Paris Saclay University in France. Her research interests are mainly focused on signalling in the context of plant development. In the C₄ Rice Project, her research is focused on the relationship between cell divisions and vein patterning in developing rice leaves.

Dr Chiara Perico Chiara is a post-doc in the Langdale lab. She obtained a Masters in Industrial Biotechnologies from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and a PhD in Biological Sciences, with a focus on Plant Sciences, from the University of Bristol. Her research is aimed at understanding the role of hormones in leaf vascular development in C₃ and C₄ grasses.

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