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Leaf movements: “leaf tip sentinels report to base”

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Posted on 5 March 2023 by ronaldpierik

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We are proud to share our latest paper in Current Biology, on leaf movements in response to shade cues from nearby vegetation: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.045. We show here how leaf tips perceive far-red light from neighbouring vegetation, and how this information is … Continue reading →

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Congratulations Martina!

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Posted on 3 October 2022 by ronaldpierik

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Lab Outreach

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Posted on 2 June 2022 by ronaldpierik

We’re sharing some of our recent outreach activities that have found their way in the online and physical realms: Martina and Ronald participated in Operatie breinbreker: a theater production to engage children in science, see embedded video above (in Dutch).Martina … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

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Posted on 3 January 2022 by ronaldpierik

2022 has started and where hoping for it to be wonderful, diverse and filled with great science. We started by hiring a new PhD student, Siddhant Shetty, who has just arrived from India and who will be working in the … Continue reading →

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Welcoming two new PhD students

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Posted on 30 June 2021 by ronaldpierik

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We’re very happy to welcome Sanne Matton and Kyra van der Velde in the Photobiology team! Sanne will be working on leaf movements in response to fluctuating light.Kyra will be investigating the mechanisms through which light regulates root development.

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checking in – new work

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Posted on 22 June 2021 by ronaldpierik

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With our new growth facilities open, upgraded lighting in the greenhouse and labs open with distancing restrictions, research is back online. We are writing/revising manuscripts with new findings on architecture for weed suppression, molecular regulation of shade avoidance, mechanostimulation and … Continue reading →

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Welcoming two postdocs

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Posted on 19 February 2021 by ronaldpierik

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We are very happy to welcome two postdoctoral researchers: Pierre Gautrat (currently at CNRS, Paris) has been awarded an EMBO long-term fellowship and will join us in April 2021. AndrĂ©s Romanowski (currently in Edinburgh) has been awarded a Marie Curie … Continue reading →

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Upgraded growth facilities

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Posted on 5 November 2020 by ronaldpierik

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While COVID19 measures closed down our lab, a major renovation of our Phytotron (Plant Growth Facility) was planned. Even though access to all of our facilities is still strictly limited by ongoing COVID19 measures, we are fortunate to start using … Continue reading →

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Lab re-opening (slowly…)

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Posted on 15 June 2020 by ronaldpierik

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Wouldn’t it be great to meet all these wonderful people in the lab in real life again! We will continue to meet online for quite some time still, but the good news is that lab life is slowly starting up … Continue reading →

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lab on hold

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Posted on 27 March 2020 by ronaldpierik

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Just like most other labs, we had to close our lab activities by and large. We’re just collecting useful lab materials and donate these to the university hospital in these tense times, just like most other life science groups do. … Continue reading →

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Ronald Pierik’s lab studies plasticity of plant architecture and physiology in response to light quality. Interactions with other environmental parameters are also studied.

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  • Leaf movements: “leaf tip sentinels report to base” 5 March 2023
  • Congratulations Martina! 3 October 2022
  • Lab Outreach 2 June 2022
  • Happy New Year! 3 January 2022
  • Welcoming two new PhD students 30 June 2021
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