Dr Mark Waters

Mark hails from the UK with an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. In 2010 he ventured to the southern hemisphere to continue his postdoc career at the University of Western Australia, where he discovered the karrikin receptor protein in plants. In 2015 he was awarded the Peter Goldacre medal from the Australian Society of Plant Scientists, and in 2016 he received an ARC Future Fellowship held at UWA. He now leads a small team working on chemical signalling in plants and bacteria, with interests in structural biology, photobiology and classical molecular genetics.