Members

Gourav is from Haryana, India. He joined the group as a rePLANT Fellow in October 2023. He is interested in understanding how different domains/motifs present in the bZIP class of transcription factors regulate flowering responses in Arabidopsis.

Pau Casanova-Ferrer is a Spanish physicist studying the dynamics of the stem cell niche during floral transition in the Arabidopsis shoot meristem at both tissue and single cell levels, combining modelling and quantitative image analysis. Pau also belongs to the Formosa group and is co-supervised by Pau Formosa-Jordan.

Martina Cerise comes from Italy. She is interested in understanding the apical stem cells behaviour during the floral transition in Arabidopsis thaliana

Pedro comes from Spain. He applies molecular biology and bioinformatics techniques to understand the gene regulatory network that controls the floral transition in Arabidopsis thaliana and to identify novel driver transcription factors involved in reproductive development.

Na Ding comes from China. She is interested in understanding the gene regulatory networks promoting flowering in Arabidopsis, particularly focusing on FLOWERING LOCUS D (FD) and FRUITFULL (FUL).

Marius comes from France. He studies the genetic and epigenetic regulation of flowering, particularly the vernalization process in the perennial plant Arabis alpina.

Vítor comes from Brazil. He is investigating phosphorylation and bZIP transcriptional complexes during floral transition.

Michael comes from Germany. He is interested in characterizing morphological changes in shoot meristem architecture during floral transition. He also investigates FT/miR172/AP2 signaling on a systemic level.

He comes from China, and is interested in post-translational modification of CONSTANS protein and identifying genes downstream of transcription factors that act in the photoperiodic flowering pathway of Arabidopsis.

Yohanna comes from Brazil. She is interested in the regulation of miRI56 in the control of floral induction in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Ananthu comes from Kerala, India and is interested in genetics and developmental biology. He is working on the role of SPLs in floral transition and inflorescence development

Yoonkeum comes from Jeju, South Korea. She applies molecular genetics to identify the genes or QTLs that engage in the transition of floral buds to flowers in Arabis alpina. She also tries to decipher the roles of these loci in the adaptation ofA. alpina to extreme environment in high latitudinal Scandinavian region.

Jesús comes from Málaga, Spain. He is interested in understanding the biochemical mechanisms related to the roles of trehalose-6-phosphate in the development of the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana and its conservation in the perennial Arabis alpina. He is co-supervised by Dr. Franziska Fichtner at HHU Düsseldorf as part of CEPLAS.

Gabriel comes from Spain. He studies the gene regulatory network controlling the timing of floral transition in response to environmental cues in Arabidopsis thaliana through mathematical modelling.

Niharika comes from India. She is interested in understanding the floral bud arrest in perennial Arabis alpina and the regulation of perennial FLC genes

Coral Vincent comes from England and is working primarily on cytological approaches such as in situ hybridizations and grafting

Kang comes from China. He is interested in flowering regulatory mechanisms of both Arabidopsis thaliana and perennial Arabis alpina. His project focuses on the regulatory networks of AP2, SOC1 and FUL in both species.

Jasmin comes from Germany, but did her PhD and a first postdoc in London. She is a bioinformatician working on big NGS datasets to assess genome-wide processes in both Arabis alpina as well as Arabidopsis thaliana. She also supports the rest of the group with their computational analyses.