The Team

Introducing the roots in salt team:

Our former lab members include:

Yanxia Zhang
Hongfei Li
Nora Gigli Bisceglia
Tom van der Meer
Shu-Hua Hsu
Yutao Zou
Jessica Meyer
Safarina Ahmad
Iko Koevoets
Ayodeji Deolu-Ajayi
Ruud Korver
Dorota Kawa
Magdalena Julkowska
Jacinto Gandullo Tovar
Carlos Galvan-Ampudia
Steven Arisz
Fionn McLoughlin

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

Christa Testerink (Professor of Plant Physiology)

Enthusiastically leading the “Roots in Salt” dream team.

Rumyana Karlova (Assistant professor)

I would like to understand how tomato plants respond to salinity and which gene regulatory networks regulate these responses at molecular and cellular level.

Charlotte Gommers (Assistant professor)

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.

Yiyun Li (PhD candidate)

My research interest is understanding how the root system architecture is affected in response to salt and the role of phytohormones in this process.

Scott Hayes (Post-Doc)

I am investigating the molecular and physiological basis for root elongation at warm temperatures.

Thijs de Zeeuw (Technician)

Using my expertise in molecular biology, microscopy, and cell biology to help the lab move forward.

Jasper Lamers (Post-doc)

The aim of my project will be to investigate this putative sensor and study its downstream signaling pathway.

Eva van Zelm (PhD candidate)

I am interested in the cellular changes that enable the adaptation of plants to their enviroment.

Joram Dongus (Post-Doc)

I am part of the VICI team where we aim to identify new salt sensing and signaling pathways in the root and shoot of Arabidopsis. Using transcriptomic approaches, we will build salt gene regulatory networks and see how perturbations in these networks affect plant development.

Silvia Bugallo Alfageme (PhD candidate)

Lettuce is one of the most important leafy crops. While its morphological response to salt stress has been previously been studied, little is known on the molecular mechanisms underlying salt tolerance in this species.

Pinelopi Kokkinopoulou (Technician)

My current work involves molecular biology, plant physiology and plant phenotyping.

Parvinderdeep S. Kahlon (Post-Doc)

I started working as a postdoctoral scientist at the Laboratory of Plant Physiology in April 2022. I am part of the MiCRop consortium. My work in the initial phase at the Laboratory of Plant Physiology focused on above-ground tissue characteristics of wild and domesticated tomatoes under drought stress. In October 2022, I joined the roots in salt group, and I am working on understanding the molecular links between salinity stress responses and how this can influence high-density cropping and soil-derived signals.

Kilian Duijts (PhD candidate)

I want to understand how lateral roots develop under salt stress.

Damian Boer (PhD candidate)

I am -with great enthusiasm- characterizing and studying how potato plant roots grow and develop from True Potato Seeds.

The Team

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