About Caroline Dean
Dame Caroline Dean is a British plant scientist working at the John Innes Centre. She is focused on understanding the molecular controls used by plants to seasonally judge when to flower. She is specifically interested in vernalisation — the acceleration of flowering in plants by exposure to periods of prolonged cold. She has also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2018. Dean was educated at the University of York, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1978 and a PhD in Biology in 1982.
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