Introducing the roots in salt team:
Our former lab members include:
Besides our research team, we have a collaboration with artist Selene Kolman. Do you want to see what our research looks like through the eyes of an artist? Click here to visit Selene’s site Rhizomatique
Enthusiastically leading the “Roots in Salt” dream team.
My current work mainly involves molecular cell biology, genetics and biochemistry.
I study how plants adapt (lateral) root development to salt stress.
I used GWAS and reverse genetics to identify important signaling pathways and genes involved in halotropism.
My main research interest is understanding how plants adjust their root growth and development to adapt to the ever-changing soil environments.
My research is focused on identification and characterization of Na+-specific sensors in Arabidopsis.
Why is there such a significant difference on salt tolerance between Arabidopsis and S. parvula?
The aim of my project will be to investigate this putative sensor and study its downstream signaling pathway.
I am interested in the cellular changes that enable the adaptation of plants to their enviroment.
My aim is to understand how salt-induced changes in cytoskeleton and cell wall structure are perceived in plants.
I would like to understand how tomato plants respond to salinity and which gene regulatory networks regulate these responses at molecular and cellular level.
I aim to investigate how chloroplasts contribute to the perception of and the adaptation to changing environments, and how this helps plants to tolerate abiotic stresses.
I am aiming to identify genetic loci that are regulating tomato survivals and unravel the molecular mechanism for tomato RSA regulation in salinized environments.
Read more Safarina Ahmad (PhD student @University of Amsterdam)
I will use a chemical genetics approach to find small molecules that reduce the response of Arabidopsis to high sodium soil content and identify the target proteins, which explain the intracellular response to salt stress.
