Frederic Beaudoin

Frederic is a senior scientist and project leader at Rothamsted Research. His main interests are in plant lipid metabolism and biotechnology. He has a wealth of experience in metabolic engineering of plants (oilseeds), yeast and microalgae including 15 years investigating the biosynthesis of very long chain fatty acids and their role in growth and development. Over the past 10 years, his main research projects have involved manipulating plant lipid composition to enhance human nutrition, as well as for the sustainable production of fuel, lubricants, and chemical feedstocks. More recently, he started to use high throughput lipidomic profiling and genome wide association study (GWAS) methods to identify the genetic components that control quantitative variation of traits representing biorefining opportunities in the oilseed crop, B. napus (for example, seed phytosterol and cuticular wax content and composition).