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Our latest paper (https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf200), published online in Plant Cell, shows that Gibberellins are involved in long-distance signalling of phytochrome-sensed light signals all the way in to the roots that are not light-exposed but still respond to light quality changes. We … Continue reading →

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Robert Winter is our latest PhD candidate hired on the CropXR consortium. Robert will work on cellular aspects of stress resilience and growth regulation in close collaboration with several other PhD candidates in this consortium, between Wageningen University, Utrecht University, … Continue reading →

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We are recruiting two PhD candidates to our team: One is under direct guidance by Ronald Pierik on cellular aspects of light-driven developmental plasticity (https://www.wur.nl/en/education-programmes/phd-programme/graduate-schools/www.wur.nlwimek/about-wimek/vacancies/phd-vacancies/show/phd-candidate-plant-light-signalling.htm), whereas the other is under direct guidance by Gabriela Toledo Ortiz, focussing on photoreceptor – … Continue reading →

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We are very proud to share that Dr. Lisa Oskam received her title on February 12, 2025 cum laude at Utrecht University. Lisa did her PhD when we were still in Utrecht, and has now joined our photobiology team in … Continue reading →

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Leonardo Jo joined us per November as a postdoc on Ronald’s Vici grant. Leo formerly worked with Kaisa Kajala at Utrecht University and you may know him also from the R package ggPlantMap that that he made to help you … Continue reading →

Based on our latest paper on interactions between nitrate availability and shade avoidance (Gautrat et al., 2024, Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52828-y) Wageningen University wrote a nice news item that really tries to open our highly detailed and molecular biology-type research to … Continue reading →

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Nutrient cues from the roots co-regulate light responses in the shoot: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52828-y. Gautrat et al., 2024, Nature Communications Our former postdoc Pierre Gautrat received an EMBO long-term fellowship to investigate root-shoot signalling in shade avoidance regulation. Pierre discovered that nitrate … Continue reading →

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Alysha Somer has joined our team as a PhD candidate in the Crop-XR program (cropxr.org). Alysha will study how the shoot, while perceiving environmental cues, instructs the root system to develop in particular manners. Alysha studied at Utrecht University and … Continue reading →

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Lisa Oskam and co-authors from the photobiology team published a low-cost imaging platform, based on on Raspberry Pi mini computers and dedicated bioinformatics scripts for downstream image analysis as an open access paper in Plant Physiology: https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae097. Using this system … Continue reading →

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What a privilege it is to be able to travel for work and meet these amazing people who help us be better scientists and mentors. But also a complicated balance to strike between fostering international networks and inevitable carbon emissions … Continue reading →