Members

Gourav Arora

Gourav Arora

PhD student
Gourav is from Haryana, India. He joined the group as a rePLANT Fellow in October 2023. He is interested in understanding how different domains/motifs present in the bZIP class of transcription factors regulate flowering responses in Arabidopsis.
Pau Casanova-Ferrer

Pau Casanova-Ferrer

Postdoc
Pau Casanova-Ferrer is a Physicist studying the floral transition in the Arabidopsis shoot meristem at both tissue and single cell levels, combining modelling and quantitative image analysis. Pau also belongs to the Coupland group and is co-supervised by Prof. George Coupland
Martina Cerise

Martina Cerise

Postdoc
Martina Cerise comes from Italy. She is interested in understanding the apical stem cells behaviour during the floral transition in Arabidopsis thaliana
Pedro de los Reyes

Pedro de los Reyes

Postdoc
Pedro comes from Spain. He applies molecular biology and bioinformatics techniques to understand the gene regulatory network that controls the floral transition in Arabidopsis thaliana and to identify novel driver transcription factors involved in reproductive development.
Na Ding

Na Ding

PhD
Na Ding comes from China. She is interested in understanding the gene regulatory networks promoting flowering in Arabidopsis, particularly focusing on FLOWERING LOCUS D (FD) and FRUITFULL (FUL).
Marius Dutrois

Marius Dutrois

PhD student
Marius comes from France. He studies the genetic and epigenetic regulation of flowering, particularly the vernalization process in the perennial plant Arabis alpina.
Vitor  Falavigna

Vitor Falavigna

Postdoc
Vítor comes from Brazil. He is interested in understanding the miR172/AP2 network at the meristem by establishing single cell transcriptomics. He is also involved in how post-translation of regulatory proteins controls flowering.
Michael  Fuchs

Michael Fuchs

Postdoc
Michael comes from Germany. He is interested in characterizing morphological changes in shoot meristem architecture during floral transition. He also investigates FT/miR172/AP2 signaling on a systemic level.
He Gao

He Gao

Postdoc
He comes from China, and is interested in post-translational modification of CONSTANS protein and identifying genes downstream of transcription factors that act in the photoperiodic flowering pathway of Arabidopsis.
Brigitte Koop

Brigitte Koop

Technician
Michaela Lehnen

Michaela Lehnen

Technician
Alba Lloret

Alba Lloret

Postdoc
Alba comes from Alacant, Spain. She is interested in understanding how the miR157/AaSPL15 module controls floral transition of individual branches in the perennial plant A. alpina.
Andrea Lossow

Andrea Lossow

Technician
Kerstin Luxa

Kerstin Luxa

Technician
Yohanna Miotto

Yohanna Miotto

Postdoc
Yohanna comes from Brazil. She is interested in the regulation of miRI56 in the control of floral induction in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Ananthu Muraleedharan

Ananthu Muraleedharan

IMPRS student
Ananthu comes from Kerala, India and is interested in genetics and developmental biology. He is working on the role of SPLs in floral transition and inflorescence development
Yoonkeum Oh

Yoonkeum Oh

PhD
Yoonkeum comes from Jeju, South Korea. She applies molecular genetics to identify the genes or QTLs that engage in the transition of floral buds to flowers in Arabis alpina. She also tries to decipher the roles of these loci in the adaptation ofA. alpina to extreme environment in high latitudinal Scandinavian region.
Jesús  Praena Tamayo

Jesús Praena Tamayo

Postdoc
Jesús comes from Málaga, Spain. He is interested in understanding the biochemical mechanisms related to the roles of trehalose-6-phosphate in the development of the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana and its conservation in the perennial Arabis alpina. He is co-supervised by Dr. Franziska Fichtner at HHU Düsseldorf as part of CEPLAS.
Gabriel Rodriguez Maroto

Gabriel Rodriguez Maroto

PhD
Gabriel comes from Spain. He studies the gene regulatory network controlling the timing of floral transition in response to environmental cues in Arabidopsis thaliana through mathematical modelling.
Adrian Roggen

Adrian Roggen

Postdoc
Adrian comes from Germany and is interested in the regulation of microRNAs at the shoot meristem by endogenous signals such as age and metabolites as well as environmental factors. My project focuses on the expression of the genes encoding microRNA156 and their effect on reproductive development.
Niharika Sashidhar

Niharika Sashidhar

Postdoc
Niharika comes from India. She is interested in understanding the floral bud arrest in perennial Arabis alpina and the regulation of perennial FLC genes
Coral Vincent

Coral Vincent

Research Assistant
Coral Vincent comes from England and is working primarily on cytological approaches such as in situ hybridizations and grafting
Kang Wang

Kang Wang

PhD
Kang comes from China. He is interested in flowering regulatory mechanisms of both Arabidopsis thaliana and perennial Arabis alpina. His project focuses on the regulatory networks of AP2, SOC1 and FUL in both species.
Jasmin Zohren

Jasmin Zohren

Postdoc
Jasmin comes from Germany, but did her PhD and a first postdoc in London. She is a bioinformatician working on big NGS datasets to assess genome-wide processes in both Arabis alpina as well as Arabidopsis thaliana. She also supports the rest of the group with their computational analyses.
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