Principal Data Scientist at Camgenium Cambridge, UK
Ross Carter
Physicist by training, plant biophysicist by research, data scientist by trade. For thirteen years — Sheffield, then Norwich, then Cambridge — I measured and modelled how living tissues grow and deform: scanning probe microscopy on single cells, confocal time-series of developing leaves, and the multiscale models that tie the two together.
Since 2023 I have worked on machine learning for medical devices at Camgenium, building models clinicians can actually use. The questions are different; the habit of insisting a model survive contact with the measurement is the same.
Writing
- The apical hook, one cell at a timeRebuilding our 2024 hook model cell by cell, with stress emerging from a force balance rather than prescribed. It confirms the wall-integrity hypothesis under a harder test — and turns up a feedback the analytic version cannot have.
Publications
- 2024 Xyloglucan deficiency leads to a reduction in turgor pressure and changes in cell wall properties, affecting early seedling establishment Current Biology
- 2024 Differential growth is an emergent property of mechanochemical feedback mechanisms in curved plant organs Developmental Cell
- 2024 Synthesis and import of GDP-ʟ-fucose into the Golgi affect plant–water relations New Phytologist
Elsewhere
- GitHub Scientific tooling and side projects.
- Google Scholar Complete and current publication list.
- LinkedIn Career history.
- ResearchGate Papers and co-authors.
Or email [email protected] — happy to talk about quantitative problems, measurement, or anything plant-mechanical.