Through your undergraduate and graduate-level teaching, and your research activities, you will contribute to the faculty’s pursuit of excellence. Furthermore, you will promote your discipline and actively participate in the daily activities of a renowned institution. As such, you will:

Cell elongation is a fundamental process allowing plants to change size and shape, a process governed by several growth promoting hormones. While hormones such as brassinosteroids (BRs) and phytosulfo...

Plants use mobile small RNAs to coordinate development and stress responses. Here, we review recent advances revealing mechanisms shaping the mobile sRNA p

The specification of embryonic stem cells capable of self-renewing and differentiation into virtually any cell type, is one of the most consequential events in the development of a multicellular organ...

Nature exhibits organs of various shapes and forms, ranging from smooth to undulated morphologies. How cells coordinate their growth to produce smooth…

Multicellular development is tightly coupled to the polarization of individual cells, which partitions polar proteins along the cell cortex and can control asymmetric cell division, anisotropic growth...

In growth and development of plants, the signaling molecule auxin plays an instrumental role. Many patterning processes are controlled by auxin signaling in a self-organizing matter. After fertilizati...

While cell identities are established early during embryogenesis, these cells remain immature until germination, and the mechanisms enforcing this developmental pause are poorly understood. Embryonic ...

Moving from water to land was no easy job for plants. Over millions of years, ancestors of modern land flora evolved critical adaptations to prevent desicc

The opening is for a PhD research position within the field of mathematical or theoretical biology, computational physics, applied mathematics […]

This review discusses how plants integrate both environmental and internal signals across space and time to anticipate, acclimate to, recover from, and rem

Plants perceive neighboring vegetation through an enrichment of far-red light (shade) in the environment. These changes in light quality trigger molecular and physiological responses aimed at outgrowi...

Parliament has adopted new rules facilitating access to new plants that are climate and pest resistant, give higher yields and require fewer pesticides.

Highlighted Article: In Arabidopsis stomatal cells, SPEECHLESS persists into maturing guard cells where its balance with FAMA is essential for guard cell development. Transcriptomic and genetic analys...

In stomatal development, epidermal cells progress through distinct stages as they differentiate into stomatal guard cells, a process orchestrated by closely related basic helix-loop-helix transcriptio...

Highlighted Article: In Arabidopsis stomatal cells, SPEECHLESS persists into maturing guard cells where its balance with FAMA is essential for guard cell development. Transcriptomic and genetic analys...

Abstract. Flooding is a major abiotic stress that restricts terrestrial plant growth and survival. A plant tissue’s ability to avoid or sustain critical ox

Participate in an international ERC funded team aiming to re-engineer by design, a complex developmental system - the flower.

Do you want to work as a PhD 'The Cellular Basis of Plant Regeneration' at the Faculty of Science? Check our vacancy!

Creation and shaping of plant parts To thrive, plants must follow a well-crafted plan. Their body plan is both robust and reproducible, yet highly adaptable to the environment. The sculpting of the p...