10 Facts About Caroline Dean

Caroline Dean is focused on understanding the molecular controls used by plants to seasonally judge when to flower.

Caroline Dean has served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2018.

Caroline Dean's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council European Research Council, EU-Marie Curie and EMBO and focuses on research on gene regulation and the intersection of chromatin, transcription and non-coding RNAs.

Caroline Dean's goal is to understand the chromatin dynamics that enable switching between epigenetic states and quantitative regulation of gene expression.

Caroline Dean uses Arabidopsis as a reference to establish the regulatory hierarchy and then use this information to translate into other species.

Caroline Dean was a pioneer in Arabidopsis becoming a key model organism in plant science.

Caroline Dean has made outstanding contributions in the study of developmental timing in plants.

Caroline Dean's work has revealed the mechanism by which plants remember they have experienced winter, demonstrated novel RNA processing mechanisms controlling flowering and determined the molecular basis of natural variation in Arabidopsis flowering time.

Caroline Dean's discoveries have broad significance in the fields of epigenetics, post-transcriptional regulation and molecular evolution.

Caroline Dean has made a massive contribution to the development of Arabidopsis as a model, establishing resources for genetic mapping and insertional mutagenesis, and providing physical maps that underpinned the sequencing of the genome.