Current
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.
PhD candidate working on growth-defense trade-off in Arabidopsis within the consortium CropXR
Past (up to 2024)
Rik Boer (BSc student in 2026, Utrecht University)
Jimena López García (BSc student in 2026, Utrecht University)
Álvaro Forteza Benito (BSc student in 2026, Utrecht University)
Elizaveta Plyasunova (BSc student in 2026, Utrecht University)
Anastasija Tasevska (BSc student in 2026, Utrecht University)
Oleanna Kothe Y Eide (BSc student in 2026, University College Utrecht)
Marle Wissink (BSc student in 2026, University College Utrecht)
Revika Sethi (MSc student in November 2025 – July 2026, Utrecht University)
Kalypso Maria Asteriadou (BSc ERASMUS+ student, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
Leroy van der Meer (PhD candidate 2024-2026, Utrecht University)
Bart Schimmel (postdoc in the LettuceKnow consortium, till February 2026)
Steven Versaevel (MSc student in 2024-2025, Utrecht University)
Raphaël Pabot (BSc student in 2025, Utrecht University)
Isabel Berges Lara (BSc student in 2025, Utrecht University)
Samara Almeida Landman (worked on the NWO-XS project in 2024-2025 as an MSc student, from 2025 PhD candidate at Utrecht University)
Femke van den Berg (worked on the NWO-XS project in 2024-2025 as an MSc student, from 2025 PhD candidate at WUR)
Marrit Alderkamp (worked on the NWO-XS project in 2024-2025 as a technician, works as a technician at Utrecht University)
Sara Fritsch (MSc student in 2023-2024, Utrecht University)
Defense and Recovery of Plants 