Guillaume Chomicki BSc, PhD,FLS

I completed a BSc. in Plant Science at the University of Manchester, graduating with a First Class Honours. My honours thesis (in Prof. Simon R. Turner’s lab) looked at how cortical microtubules become aligned to allow for directional cell expansion during interphase in plants. I subsequently went onto a Ph.D at the University of Munich (LMU), in Prof. Susanne S. Renner’s lab, focusing on the evolution and maintenance of ant/plant symbioses. During my Ph.D, I established a novel type of symbiosis as model system to study mutualism specialisation (graduated with Summa Cum Laude). I then went onto a one-year postdoc still in Munich working with Susanne Renner, and then got a Glasstone Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, department of Plant Sciences, and I am jointly an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow of the Queen's college, Oxford. I am also a Fellow of the Linnean Society (elected 2013).