Cell scientist to watch – Siobhan Braybrook

ABSTRACT Siobhan Braybrook completed her undergraduate studies in plant biology at the University of Guelph (Canada) and moved to California for her PhD with John Harada (UC Davis) on the transcriptional control of plant embryogenesis, awarded in 2008. Siobhan then joined the laboratory of Cris Kuhlemeier in Bern, Switzerland, with a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. In 2013, she established her own research group as a Gatsby Career Development Fellow at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, to focus on plant cell wall mechanics and organ growth. The Braybrook laboratory moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in 2017, where Siobhan was appointed Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. Her research group focuses on cell wall mechanics and the coordination of cell shape and tissue growth in plants and algae.