PhD student Plant root development

at  Wageningen University Research

ARE YOU AN ENTHUSIASTIC PLANT SCIENTIST WHO WANTS TO INVESTIGATE HOW ROOT DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTES TO PLANT RESILIENCE? DO YOU LIKE TO STUDY MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAYS, USING STATE OF THE ART TOOLS? DO YOU LIKE TO WORK IN A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS WITH DIFFERENT EXPERTISE? THEN WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!

This PhD position is part the national program CropXR’s core research. The subproject “The role of root plasticity in resilience” will run under supervision of Prof dr Christa Testerink in Wageningen. You will be working in a team together with other experimental and computational plant scientists. In this PhD project, you will focus on key genes and molecular pathways predicted to steer developmental plasticity of Arabidopsis roots under drought. Using novel mathematical modelling, network inference approaches and existing knowledge we will identify networks downstream of drought perception and establish how these impinge on and are integrated with basal root development. We will test the contribution of these networks to root architectural plasticity under water deficit stress.
Besides carrying out the research project, you will contribute to teaching MSc and BSc students.

Please refer the Job description for details