Lab members

Dmitry Lapin

Principle Investigator

Leroy van der Meer

PhD candidate working on growth-defense trade-off in lettuce
Incentive grant, associated with the LettuceKnow consortium

Nienke van der Wal

PhD candidate working on growth-defense trade-off in Arabidopsis within the consortium CropXR

Steven Versaevel
MSc student working with Nienke in the project investigating the role of TOPLESS family transcriptional co-repressors in PAMP-triggered immunity and growth-defense trade-off.
Utrecht University

Revika Sethi
MSc student studying together with Leroy the role of NAC transcription factors in the regulation of growth-defense trade-offs in lettuce.
Utrecht University

Iñigo Bañales
PhD candidate working on lettuce cell surface receptor identification and signaling
LettuceKnow, Guido van den Ackerveken Laboratory

Bart Schimmel
Postdoctoral researcher working on growth-defense trade-off in lettuce (phenomics approach)
LettuceKnow, Guido van den Ackerveken Laboratory