Trainee (not employed), Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, from December 2011. I am currently working on developing a molecular method for cancer diagnostics.

Previous positions

Ph.D. student and teaching assistant, Physiological Botany, Uppsala University, 2004-2010

Education

Ph.D. in Biology, Uppsala University, 2010

M.Sc. in Biology, Uppsala University, 2004

Exchange student at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, January-June 2003

Scientific prizes and awards

Benzelius Prize from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, 2011

Poster prize at the 3rd Euro Evo Devo conference in Paris, France, 2010

Subjects I have been teaching

Plant Physiology, Plant Anatomy, Plant Development, Cell Biology, Plant Molecular Biology, Functional Genetics

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications in international journals

Groth, E., Tandre, K., Engström, P. and Vergara-Silva, F. (2011) AGAMOUS subfamily MADS-box genes and the evolution of seed cone morphology in Cupressaceae and Taxodiaceae. Evolution & Development 13(2): 159-170

Ph.D. thesis

Groth, E. (2010) Functional Diversification among MADS-Box Genes and the Evolution of Conifer Seed Cone Development. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 754. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala (download as free PDF or buy the book from Uppsala University)