Professor John Bowman

Prof. John Bowman trained as a geneticist during his PhD at Caltech where he started working on Arabidopsis as a model plant to address fundamental questions in flower development. In 1995, he established his own laboratory at the University of California, Davis where his group discovered several gene families whose action determines the polar growth of leaves. In 2006 he moved as a Federation Fellow to Monash, where his laboratory continues to investigate fundamental questions in land plant evolution and development, primarily using Marchantia as a model system. Elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences in 2014.