Dr. Heather E. McFarlane is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Plant Cell Biology in the Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD at the University of British Columbia (Canada) where she studied the transport of lipids that form the protective plant cuticle. After her PhD, she joined the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology (Germany) to study cell wall synthesis as an EMBO postdoctoral fellow. She then moved to University of Melbourne (Australia) where she was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award to initiate her work on cell wall signaling. Heather joined the Department of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto July 2019. The McFarlane Lab studies cell wall synthesis, secretion, signaling, and remodeling with a view to improving plant biomass for food, materials, and energy.

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