Cellulose Synthesis

Villum Investigator 2020
Aim to understand how plants make secondary cell walls, critically contributing to plant stature and the water transporting capacity of plants.

NNF, Laureate Research Grant 2020
Identifying factors that drive allocation of carbon in plant cells and thereby perhaps be able to change the carbohydrate content in for example grains with significant health benefits.

NNF, Data Science Collaborative Research Programme 2021
Aim to investigate how the shapes of leaf cells contribute to the photosynthetic capacity of the leaf, influencing the diffusion and hence photosynthesis.

NNF, BioSAP Emerging Investigator
Description to come

Lundbeck Fonden
This project aims to functionally characterize microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) to better appreciate their role in plant and neuronal biology.

Danmarks Grundforskningsfond chair 2021
Building new microscope solutions and using biophysics tools to address outstanding questions in plant cell wall biology.

NNF, Industrial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology - Project Grants 2021
Description to come

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship Award 2022
Description to come

NNF, Industrial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021
Designing, engineering and determining the 3D structure of novel plasma membrane localized xylan synthases inspired by the cellulose synthase complex.

• Staffan Persson elected as a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences 2022. Link here.
  
  
• DNRF Chair grant awarded to the Persson lab 2021. Link here.
  
  
• NNF Laureate grant awarded to the Persson lab 2019
  
  
• Villum Investigator grant awarded to the Persson lab 2019. Link here.
  
  
• Thomson Reuter/Clarivate highly cited researcher 2016, 2017, 2018 (top 1% in the world)
  
  
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6377-5132