Welcome to the plant-soil interactions lab in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at The University of Sydney. The lab is led by Charles Warren and has a broad range of research projects. Our lab sits at the intersection of plant physiology and soil biogeochemistry. We are interested in the internal activities of plants and soil, that is those chemical and physical processes associated with life (e.g. photosynthesis, respiration, nutrient uptake, osmotic adjustment). A special interest is in the ways in which plants affect soil microbes and vice versa. Many of our projects investigate the roles of plants and soil microbes in key ecosystem processes such as cycles of C, N, P.
We are located in the Macleay Building on the Camperdown Campus. The Macleay Building was built in 1887 to house museum collections of the Macleay family, one of the pre-eminent families in colonial Sydney. The museum was dissolved in 2016 with collections amalgamated into the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
