Lab members

Dmitry Lapin

Principle Investigator

Iñigo Bañales
Postdoc investigating the role of TOPLESS family transcriptional co-repressors and other transcription factors in PAMP-triggered immunity and growth-defense trade-off.

Nienke van der Wal

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

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

Marle Wissink
BSc student assessing the role of different transcription factors in the regulation of early PAMP-triggered immune responses.
University College Utrecht

Oleanna Kothe Y Eide
BSc student investigating together with Nienke the effect of salicylic acid on the shoot apical meristem using fluorescent reporter lines
University College Utrecht

Anastasija Tasevska (Utrecht University)
BSc student searching for new regulators of resistance and susceptibility to downy mildew in Arabidopsis thaliana using the HEM collection.

Elizaveta Plyasunova (Utrecht University)
MBLS BSc student looking into interactions of BAP-D proteins with immunity regulators.

Álvaro Forteza Benito (Utrecht University)
MBLS BSc student studying how transcription factors contribute to the regulation of PAMP-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis.

Rik Boer and Jimena López García (Utrecht University)
MBLS BSc students characterizing the effect of mutations in the DMR6 family proteins on resistance, transcriptome, and growth in lettuce.

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