Students

Research interests: Iron uptake in Arabidopsis thaliana, Medicago truncatula, and Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean).

Research interests: Plastid lipid metabolism and fatty acid transport.

Research interests: Genomic and molecular factors which are responsible for desirable sensory traits in fruit such as taste, color and aroma.

Research interests: New genes involved in biosynthesis and regulation of phenolic compounds in maize and Arabidopsis.

Research interests: To challenge and expand current photosynthetic models to better represent the photorespiratory response to increased temperature.

Research interests: Oomycete pathogens of grape and hop, with a focus on downy mildew.

Research interests: Elucidating the mechanism of cytochrome c nitrite reductase, a key enzyme in the global nitrogen cycle.

Research interests: Understanding how chloroplast morphology is regulated in plants.

Research interests: The role of photosynthesis and photorespiration under stress conditions.

Research interests: Understanding how plant defense responses and metabolism are shifted after stress, through studying the jasmonate signaling pathway.

Research interests: How light, specifically the color of light, alters plant growth and secondary metabolism.

Research interests: Systemic lipid signaling and plant development in response to abiotic stress.

Research interests: Using synthetic biology to harness production of plant metabolites as high value chemicals for industry and medicine.

Research interests: Using machine learning interpretability on model systems to study genetic interactions; information extraction and knowledge graph construction from plant biology literature.

Research interests: Plant biochemistry; Plant evolution and metabolism.

Research interests: Small molecule trafficking between species.

Research interests: Pathogen infection and resistance mechanisms.

Research interests: Elucidating terpenoid pathways and biosynthesis.

Research interests: Improving photosynthetic fluxes by increasing our understanding of the crosstalk between photosynthesis and photorespiration.

Research interests: Understanding the biogenesis of chloroplastic lipid droplets in Cyanobacteria and plant's plastoglobules for enhancement of crop stress resilience.

Research interests: Investigating and characterizing key players in stress response pathways in plants.

Research interests: Understanding and improving plants responses to the environment.

Research interests: Isotopic labeling and physiological measurements to trace the fluxes of lipids in a model microalga under various growth conditions.