I am an EPSRC-funded Systems Biology DTC student working on my PhD research with Dr Lindsay Turnbull, Prof. Phil Poole and Dr. Gail Preston at the University of Oxford. I previously studied at Wageningen University, the Netherlands (BSc biology, 2012).

In my PhD project, I am using a combination of mathematical modelling and experimental work to investigate: i) how legumes allocate resources to their own roots versus to their rhizobial symbionts under a wide range of external nitrogen conditions and; ii) how allocation decisions influence future rhizobial communities in the soil.

This work is funded by the EPSRC.

Contact Details

annet.westhoek@plants.ox.ac.uk

Publications:

Westhoek, A, Field, E., Rehling, F., Mulley, G., Webb, I., Poole, P. and Turnbull, L. (2017). Policing the Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis: A Critical Test of Partner Choice. Nature Scientific Reports 7 (1): 1419. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01634-2.