Team Phloem development: Dr. Ji-​Yun Kim

Our goal is to understand how the phloem develops and to develop strategies to improve plant fitness by reengineering amino acid metabolism and sugar loading routes in the phloem.

Team Signaling: Dr. Michael Wudick

We are interested to understand how a local stimulus (e.g., leaf wounding) induces a propagating systemic signal (e.g., electrical, chemical or hydraulic) that can trigger responses in distal plant parts.

Team Rice: Dr. Eliza Loo

We are developing strategies to fight against devastating rice diseases. Therefore, we provide disease-resistant rice varieties to minimize global yield losses.

Team ERC SYMPORE: Pr. Wolf B. Frommer

Plasmodesmata are cell-cell channels unique to plants for nutrient transport and communication. We want to unravel their structure, function and evolution using proteomics, molecular and structural biology.