July 2017

Research Technician

Deniz Tiknaz is joining us as research technician, to work on an exciting project funded by the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts (see below). We truly look forward to the great science ahead, and welcome Deniz in our group!

IUPAB & EBSA 2017

Nick Kral will attend the joint 19th International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and 11th European Biophysical Societies' Association (EBSA) Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He will present a poster on his latest work on root electrotropism. Please stop by his poster to learn more about his fascinating research!

Allen Discovery Center retreat 

GS will attend the second annual retreat of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, in Boston, US. This is an exciting opportunity to meet for the first time many of the researchers affiliated with the Center.

 

 

June 2017

Visitor

Elena Alvarez-Buylla will visit us from Mexico on the 26th, and will give a talk titled "Systems Biology Approaches to Development: Arabidopsis thaliana Root Stem Cell Niche as study system".

 

 

May 2017

New research funds

As part of the affiliation with the  Allen Discovery Center (see below), the Lab has been awarded a 1-year contract to fund the research project.
Are you looking for a new exciting project to work on? Check out the position and join us!

Allen Discovery Center at Tufts

The Lab has started a collaboration with the group of Prof. Mike Levin and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, at Tufts University in Boston (MA, U.S).  As part of the collaboration, the Lab has been offered an affiliation with the prestigious Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, part of the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group. The collaborative project is to study the roles of endogenous bioelectric patterns in plant morphogenesis.
We are very keen to build on the exciting data already collected in our Lab, on the effects of electric fields on root regeneration!

 

March 2017

Undergraduate students

Frankie Butera, Shayna Kam Lin  and Chen Lyu joined the lab for their final year projects.

 

February 2017

Post-doc

Todd Fallesen is joining the lab to take over Rico's work on our light-sheet microscope. Todd is an experienced experimental physicist who brings to the lab knowledge and enthusiasm. We all look forward to sharing with him fun science. Welcome, Todd!

 

January 2017 

Master student

Anne-Mieke is a theoretical physicist joining the Lab as an Erasmus Master student, to apply morphometric analyses to the Arabidopsis root. Her project is in close collaboration with Dr Gunnar Pruessner (Dep. Mathematics). Welcome to the underground world of plant roots!