This gallery contains 3 photos.

We’re slowly moving over to Wageningen University (WUR). Ronald has a beautiful office, the photobiology team has bonded with the Molecular Biology and Cell Biology groups at WUR over drinks and games, and lab tours are helping to plan ahead … Continue reading →

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Exciting news! The Pierik lab is moving to Wageningen University, the Netherlands. After 20 years at Utrecht University, starting as a junior postdoc and growing into faculty positions, it is time for a change. As of September 1, 2023 Ronald … Continue reading →

This gallery contains 1 photo.

Rice cultivation is transitioning from transplanting seedlings into the fields, to direct seeding onto the fields. This comes with a price: the field cannot be flooded during seeding and germination. As a consequence, this sustainable weed suppression is temporarily unavailable, … Continue reading →

This gallery contains 1 photo.

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 →

This gallery contains 2 photos.

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 →

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 →

This gallery contains 6 photos.

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 →

This gallery contains 1 photo.

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. Andrés Romanowski (currently in Edinburgh) has been awarded a Marie Curie … Continue reading →