The Gunawardena Lab is a plant cell biology laboratory located in the Life Science Centre at Dalhousie University.  Our main area of research concentrates on plant developmental programmed cell death in the Madagascar lace plant, Aponogeton madagascariensis.

June 2024

Front row (left to right):Shanukie Embuldeniya, Clara Hamm, Abigail Vivian and Arunika Gunawardena

Back row (left to right): Brendan McKeown, Ben Caron

 

Feburary 2024

Lab members
Left to right: Kestral Adams Unger,Shanukie Embuldeniya, Clara Hamm, Abigail Vivian and Arunika Gunawardena

 

Media coverage

Dal News

Discovery awards celebrate outstanding innovators, game‑changing achievements (2022)
https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/11/24/rooted-in-community--dalhousie-innovators-celebrated-for-their-i.html?utm_source=Today@Dal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dalnews

News: Volunteer‑led event returns to inspire junior high science teachers and their students (2022)
https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/09/22/volunteer-led-event-returns-to-inspire-junior-high-science-teach.html

Celebrating young science stars (2019)

https://www.dal.ca/news/2019/06/13/celebrating-young-science-stars.html

Linking Dal expertise and community teachers (2018)

https://www.dal.ca/news/2018/10/01/linking-dal-expertise-and-community-teachers.html

Exploring the sciences with the Atlantic Science Links Association (2017)

https://www.dal.ca/news/2017/11/16/exploring-the-sciences-with-the-atlantic-science-links-associati.html

Dalhousie researchers secure over $8 million to further discoveries (2017)

https://www.dal.ca/news/2017/09/08/dalhousie-researchers-snag-over--8-million-to-further-discoverie.html

Discovering a new passion in plants (2017)

https://www.dal.ca/faculty/science/news-events/news/2017/10/03/discovering_a_new_passion_in_plants.html

Nature Plants

https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201768

 

Faculty of Science News

http://www.dal.ca/faculty/science/news-events/news/newsletter/2016_05_30__2016_06_03.html

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGCNqzWkUcB/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGKOlohEUeI

AoB Blog

http://aobblog.com/2015/07/opening-a-window-on-plant-cell-death/

The press release:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/presscenter/pressreleases/20120725

http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcseriesblog/entry/cell_death_on_celluloid

A video up on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns-x8xtFP58&feature=player_embedded

Dal news

http://www.dal.ca/news/2012/11/26/watching-lace-unravel--cell-by-cell.html

CBC news

20 November 2012 at 5 pm – A story on the lace plant research findings