Bio
Keith Duncan is a research scientist in Dr. Christopher Topp’s lab at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Director of the X-ray imaging facility. After completing an undergraduate internship at the University of Sydney’s Plant Breeding Institute at Castle Hill in 1988, Duncan attended graduate school in Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia (USA). In 1991 Duncan joined Dr. Rick Howard’s microscopy and imaging facility at the DuPont Experimental Station (Delaware, USA) using light, laser, and electron microscopy to study plant-pathogen interactions. After this facility was closed in 2016, Duncan joined Dr. Topp’s lab at the Danforth Center in St. Louis, assisting a multidisciplinary team with X-ray imaging to study root system architecture and the role of plants in the larger soil ecosphere. Duncan is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, has dual USA-Australian citizenship, and holds a National level certification in the United States for training soccer goalkeepers.