Welcome to the site of the Department of Plant Sciences
Here you can find information concerning the whole Department as well as links to the specific sites of our different research groups.
Marie Barberon
Plant Nutrition and Development – Our research focuses on nutrient transport in roots
Teresa Fitzpatrick
Vitamins & Environmental Stress Responses in Plants – We study vitamin metabolism and its association with environmental stress responses in plants
Michael Hothorn
Structural Plant Biology – We study plant signal transduction cascades in mechanistic detail
Luis Lopez-Molina
Seed Molecular Genetics – We study the control of seed germination and early post-embryonic development
Yamama Naciri
Plant Biodiversity Centre – We study plant and fungal systematics, evolution and biodiversity
Karl Perron
Molecular Bacteriology – We study metal homeostasis, virulence and antibiotic resistance
Roman Ulm
Plant Molecular Biology – We study UV-B perception and signalling mechanisms in plants
Alumni groups