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Christine Foyer Christine is Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Birmingham (UK). She obtained her BSc at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and her PhD at Kings College, London, UK. She is the President of the Association of Applied Biologists, an elected Board Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists and a Member of the French Academy of Agriculture. She is also the Editor in Chief of Food and Energy Security. As well as being a Senior Editor for Plant, Cell and Environment, she is an Associate Editor of the Biochemical Journal and Physiologia Plantarum, and an Editor of The Journal of Experimental Biology. Christine has over 400 published papers and currently has an H-Index over 100. She is on the Thomson Reuters IP and Science official list of Highly Cited Researchers ranked within the top 1% most cited works for their subject field and year of publication, earning a mark of Exceptional Impact. Christine is an expert in plant metabolism and its regulation under optimal and stress conditions. Her lab focuses on the role of reduction/oxidation (redox) processes and signals in regulating plant growth and stress tolerance, studying how primary processes (photosynthesis, respiration) alter the redox status of cells and associated phytohormone signalling under optimal and stress conditions. Using model plants (Arabidopsis) as well as crops (wheat, barley, maize, soybean, tomato) the lab investigates plant responses to abiotic (drought, heat, chilling, high light) and biotic (aphids) stresses. |
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Jinxing Lin Jinxing Lin is a professor and director of the Institute of Tree Development & Genome Editing at Beijing Forestry University. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Biology at Peking University in 1992, after his ad hoc study from 1986 to 1988 at the Australian National University. From 1992 to 1994, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow, and from 1995 to 2013 acted as a PI/director of department at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IB-CAS), including several periods of collaborative studies in Max-Planck Institute at Koln, University of Antwerpen, University of Cambridge, and University of Bonn. From 2014 to 2021, he worked as the dean of College of Biological Sciences, Beijing Forestry University and President of Beijing Botanical Society. He has published extensively in plant science, with special interests in cell biology and tree physiology. |
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Lisa Ainsworth Lisa is a USDA ARS scientist in the Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, and Adjunct Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois. She received her BS in Biology at UCLA and PhD in Crop Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research aims to improve ozone tolerance in major crops, as well as to adapt crops to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Lisa has won the Charles Albert Shull Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists, the President’s Medal from the Society of Experimental Biology and has appeared on the Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers List in 2016 and 2017. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. |
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Graham Noctor Graham obtained his PhD and did a first post-doc in the UK focusing on several aspects of photosynthesis, including processes affecting the efficiency of light capture, the regulation of CO2 fixation, and interactions between carbon and nitrogen assimilation. In the 1990s, he moved to France to work on plant antioxidant systems, notably glutathione metabolism. Since 2003 he has been a Professor at the Université Paris sud, France, where his research has mainly focused on interactions between antioxidant systems and the consequences for redox signalling. A related research theme concerns the impact of photorespiration and CO2 levels on stress signaling pathways within the context of projected changes in atmospheric CO2 over the decades to come. |
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Corne Pieterse Corné is Scientific Director at the Institute of Environmental Biology, and Head of the Plant-Microbe Interactions research group in the Department of Biology at Utrecht University. Research in the Plant-Microbe Interactions group is focused on how the plant immune system protects plants against microbial pathogens and insect herbivores, and how beneficial microbes in the plant root microbiome stimulate plant growth and health. Special emphasis is placed on molecular mechanisms of plant-beneficial functions that are encoded by the root microbiome, the role of plant genes that aid in maximizing profitable functions from the root microbiome, and crosstalk between plant defense hormones. Research of the group aims to contribute to the grand societal challenges food security and sustainable agriculture. |
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Stephen Tyerman Steve’s research interests lie in the area of plant physiology, and in particular how plants aquire their mineral nutrients and water for optimum growth. He has a biophysical background and brings this to bear by using novel sensor technology for probing plant performance and responses to stress. He has researched membrane transport systems, nutrition, salinity and water relations in plants. He is one of 10 Chief Investigators responsible for the overall management of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology that has nodes in Perth, Canberra and Melbourne employing over 130 staff and research students. Steve‘s research interests include sustainable use of water resources and this has lead him into positions on committees addressing the consequences of global warming. Steve’s research and community engagement was recongnised by the award of Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science in 2004. |
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Steffen Abel Steffen is the Director of Leibnix-Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle, Germany. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IPK Gatersleben. |
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Joerg Bohlmann Joerg is a professor in the interdisciplinary Michael Smith Laboratories, and also a professor in the Department of Botany and in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences. He is an Associate of the UBC Wine Research Centre and the co-Director of the UBC Genome Sciences and Technology (GSAT) Graduate Program. Joerg has been Project Leader of six large-scale, Genome Canada-funded projects in plant genomics and synthetic biology, including genomics of forest trees, grapevine, and several non-model systems. Much of his research deals with plant secondary metabolism, plant defense against herbivores, and synthetic biology of specialized plant products. Publications https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=VtgQhkMAAAAJ Lab website |
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Stephan Clemens Stephan is a professor of Plant Physiology and, since 2018, founding dean of the Faculty of “Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health” at the University of Bayreuth. He obtained his PhD at the University of Münster, was postdoc at the University of California San Diego and an independent group leader at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle. His research interests are oriented towards understanding the role of metals in plant biology. He and his lab explore mechanisms of metal homeostasis with a particular emphasis on zinc. One of the investigated species besides Arabidopsis thaliana is the zinc and cadmium hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri, a suitable model for studying the adaptation to extreme environments. Understanding the pathways of metal uptake, distribution and storage in plants will hopefully also promote the breeding of crops that contain higher concentrations of bioavailable micronutrients and much less of the non-essential, highly toxic elements such as cadmium and arsenic, thereby improving food quality and safety. |
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Alex Costa In 2011 Alex became Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology at the University of Milano (now Associate Professor since 2015) and focused his attention on the development of new tools for the study of calcium dynamics in plant subcellular compartments, with the final aim of identifying the molecular mechanisms involved in calcium transport across membranes. Thanks to a fruitful collaboration with the Politecnico of Milano, Alex used new microscopy technologies (LSFM) for the study of calcium dynamics in single cells during development or in response to external stimuli. The great interest about microscopy brought Alex to contribute to the setting-up of the new bio-imaging facility NOLIMITS at the University of Milano becoming its Scientific Director. |
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Seth Davis Seth examines the mechanism of circadian clocks of plants to uncover physiological and developmental traits of ecological and agricultural relevance. He also exploits red algae for relevance to Industrial Biotechnology, such as genome-guided enzyme discovery. |
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Stéphane Hacquard Stéphane comes from Nancy, France. He got his PhD at the University of Lorraine in France in 2010 and did a Postdoc at the MPIPZ in Cologne. Most of his earlier work was on fungal transcriptional reprogramming during colonization of plant tissues. Since January 2017, he is a Group Leader at the MPIPZ. He is interested into how both host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions impact microbial community structure and plant health. |
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Almuth Hammerbacher Almuth studied microbiology and plant pathology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and completed her MSc in 2005. After she completed her PhD in biochemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany), she embarked in a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jonathan Gershenzon’s lab, where she led a small research group studying chemical communication between plants and pathogens. In 2016 she returned to South Africa and initiated a new research group in chemical ecology in partnership with the Max Planck Society. Almuth is interested in the chemical communication between trees and their associated microbes and herbivores. She is specifically interested in positive chemical signaling in mutually beneficial microbe-insect and microbe-plant interactions as well as negative chemical signals between host trees and their microbial or arthropod attackers. Her research combines methodologies from ecology, natural product biosynthesis, analytical chemistry, enzymology, genetics, plant physiology, genetic engineering and microbiology. |
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Rob Hancock Rob is a senior biochemist and plant physiologist at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee where he also acts as the Deputy Director of the Advanced Plant Growth Centre. His research concerns the biochemical determinants and impact of biotic and abiotic stress on crop yield and quality. The group use a range of techniques to understand impacts at a systems level. Further information |
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Xi Huang Xi is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Xiamen University. Her group study plant photobiology, with a focus on the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of plant responses to UV-B light. Further information |
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Yuling Jiao Yuling is Professor of Life Sciences at Peking University. He obtained his PhD at Yale University. Yuling is an expert in plant development, especially the involvement of mechanical stress. His group has also been actively involved in synthetic biology. Further information |
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Magda Julkowska Magda is an assistant professor in plant physiology at the Boyce Thomson Institute in New York. Her research focuses on stress-induced changes to plant architecture. She developed the journal’s Data Insights articles, which describe big-data experiments providing fundamental insights into the ways that plants respond to their environment. Further information |
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Hon-Ming Lam |
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Andrew Leakey |
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Wen-Hui Lin Wen-Hui is a professor in the School of Life and Sciences and Biotechnology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and completed postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley and Carnegie Institute for Science. Her research focuses on plant hormone signals and reproductive development, and she is currently interested in the mechanisms through which environmental factors regulate plant reproduction and seed yield. Further information |
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Chang-Jun Liu Chang-Jun (CJ) is a senior scientist and principal investigator in the Biology Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an adjunct professor in the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department of Stony Brook University. His PhD is from Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology. CJ’s research interests lie in biochemistry and metabolic engineering of plant phenylpropanoid-lignin biosynthesis, plant cell wall structure and formation, and their interactions with environment stresses. Further information |
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Rick Meinzer Rick is a plant ecophysiologist with broad interests in plant hydraulic architecture and water transport, stomatal regulation of gas exchange, responses to environmental stresses such as drought and temperature extremes, and use of stable isotopes as proxies for physiological responses to the environment. He has conducted fieldwork in a range of vegetation types, including tropical Alpine, tropical forests and savannas, agricultural and horticultural crops, temperate forests and deserts. Rick’s recent research has focused on coordination and integration of functional traits leading to overall plant hydraulic strategies. |
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Donald Ort Don is the Robert Emerson Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois. His B.S. degree is in biology/chemistry from Wake Forest University and he earned his Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from Michigan State University. He has served as President of the American Society of Plant Biology, President of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research, President of the International Association of Plant Physiology, and as Editor-in-Chief of Plant Physiology. He is an ASPB Kettering Award recipient, Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the Director of the SoyFACE project; a unique open-air laboratory investigating the impacts of rising carbon dioxide and tropospheric ozone and their interactions with temperature and precipitation on crop systems of the Midwest (www.soyface.uiuc.edu). He is also Theme Leader of Genomic Ecology of Global Change in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. His laboratory is engaged in three lines of research: i) redesigning photosynthesis for improved efficiency; ii) the molecular and biochemical basis of environmental interactions with crop plants; and iii) ecological genomics: interactive effects of CO2, temperature and drought on plant, plant canopy and plant ecosystem performance. |
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Craig Schenck Craig is an Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Missouri. He received his BS and MS from Ohio University and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. His group works on elucidating plant specialized metabolic pathways and harnessing plant metabolic pathways for increased crop resilience. Craig has won the Eric E. Conn Young Investigator award the American Society of Plant Biologists. |
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Kai Shi Kai is a professor in the Department of Horticulture at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Her research focuses on exploring how horticultural crops, particularly tomato, respond to biotic and abiotic stresses in the context of global climate change, aiming to devise eco-friendly approaches that improve plant resilience. Further information. |
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Guillaume Tcherkez Guillaume received a M.S. (Ecology, 2001) from the University of Paris-Sud (France), after four years at the École normale supérieure (Paris). He started his PhD at the University of Paris-Sud (supervised by J. Ghashghaie) and worked on the carbon isotope composition of respired CO2. Subsequently, he carried out post-doctoral studies on the chemical mechanism and isotope effects of enzymes – including Rubisco – in Australia with Professor Graham Farquhar (Australian National University, Canberra). He was at the origin of the concept that the mechanism of the first enzyme of photosynthesis, Rubisco, is probably nearly perfectly optimized to prevalent growth conditions of autotrophic organisms. In 2005, he was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Paris-Sud and then Head Professor of the isotopics and metabolomics facility in 2008. |
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Lei Wang Lei is a deputy director and principle investigator of the Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. His research mainly focuses on investigating how environmental signals and the circadian clock determine critical physiological processes in plants, including flowering time and abiotic stress resilience. Further information |
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Philip A. Wigge Philip is a Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Department of Plant Adaptation at the Leibniz Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) near Berlin. Philip studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, and obtained his PhD on budding yeast at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. Philip switched fields to plants in 2000, joining Detlef Weigel’s group as a postdoc first at Salk and then Tübingen. During this time, Philip contributed to understanding the mechanism of florigen action. Philip later held group leader positions at the John Innes Centre and Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, before taking up his position near Berlin. Philip’s group studies how plants sense and integrate temperature information, and has identified a number of plant thermosensors. The aim of this research is to breed climate resilient crops. Philip’s research is funded by the European Research Council (Starting and Advanced grants) and he is a Clarivate Highly cited scientist (2021 and 2022, Plant and Animal Sciences). |
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Qing Ye Associate Editor Qing is a professor at South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou. He is interested in the regulation mechanisms of plant water relations from the molecular to ecosystem levels. His current research focuses on hydraulic strategies underlying plant adaptation to variable environmental factors, and the linkage between plant functional traits and forest ecology under global change scenarios. Further information |
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Maria Papanatsiou Maria earned her PhD in molecular and cellular biology from University of Glasgow. Her PhD work focused on the interplay between stomatal behaviour, plant physiology and environment. She then moved to join the group of Prof. Nagy at the University of Edinburgh, where she expanded her skills into the area of photobiology. She returned to Glasgow to work with Prof. Blatt and in collaboration with Prof. Christie, where she used optogenetic tools to modulate ion transport and plant physiology to improve plant water use. She is currently working with Prof. Amtmann with the aim to improve tolerance in soybean against salt and drought stress. |
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Francesca Resentini Francesca is an assistant professor in plant physiology at the Department of Biosciences, University of Milan. Her research is focused on the study of development processes, from seed germination to fruit growth and ripening; and plant responses following the perception of environmental stimuli, particularly signal transduction and the role of second messengers. |
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