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Kirsten ten Tusscher

Kirsten ten Tusscher

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Team members

Current team members

  • Kirsten ten Tusscher, Full professor, Principal Investigator
  • Lucila Salvatore, PhD student, experiments on root nutrient decision making
  • Eva van Zelm, postdoc, experiments on lateral root development in response to nutrients
  • Bas van den Herik, postdoc, phenotyping and modeling of plant development and decisio making
  • Jeroen Saccheri, PhD student, cell-based modeling of main and lateral root development
  • Thijs van Loo, PhD student PlantXR, response of plants to drought and temperature stress
  • Benjamin Planterose Jiminez, postdoc cell decision making

Former members

  • Jerry Chen, PhD student, interplay plant physiology, ecology and climate
  • Thea van den Berg, PhD student, salt stress, lateral root priming
  • Jaap Rutten, PhD student, role of auxin cytokinin interactions in root growth
  • Xiang Zhang, postdoctoral researcher, mechanics of root growth
  • Milton Noguira da Silva Junior, PhD student, biophysics pf lateral root formation
  • Joana Teixeira Santos, PhD student, effect of shade avoidance on root architecture
  • Jorian Flik, master student, deciphering the mechanism of root phototropims
  • Daniel Weisse, postdoctoral researcher, mechanics of root growth
  • Sophia Scheper, Master student, evolution of segmentation
  • Meine Boer, Master student, models of overall root system architecture
  • Thijs Geurts, Master student, directional responsesin roots, halotropism
  • Renske Vroomans, PhD student, evolution of segmentation in bilaterian animals
  • Peter de Greef, Master student, phosphate starvation
  • Bram van Dijk, Master student, Evolution of evolvability, genome versus network structuring
  • Rutger Bos, Master student, Pro's and cons of thermodynamic models for evolutionary simulations
  • Ioannis Tamvakis, Master student, Self-organised auxin patterning in plant development
  • Klaartje van Berkel, PhD student, Self-organization of auxin-PIN patterning in plant development
  • Jelmer de Ronde, Master student, Characterisation of the human ENCODE gene regulatory network
  • Redmar van den Berg, Master student, Polymorphism and speciation in diploid genome-network models
  • Janita Terpstra, Master student, Sympatric speciation in absence of assortative mating signals
  • Harold Wolff, Master student, Reconciling models for planar cell polarity

Opportunities

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