Ian Henderson

Ian is Professor of Genetics and Epigenetics in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Since 2008, his group has investigated genetic and epigenetic inheritance in plants, with a focus on meiosis and more recently on centromeres. Prior to arriving in Cambridge, Ian performed post-doctoral research with Prof. Steve Jacobsen (University of California Los Angeles, USA) studying RNA-directed in DNA methylation in Arabidopsis, and completed his PhD with Prof. Dame Caroline Dean (John Innes Centre, UK), where he investigated control of flowering-time by RNA binding proteins. He was elected a member of EMBO in 2022.