Lab members

Current

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.

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

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

Kalypso Maria Asteriadou
BSc student searching for new regulators of resistance and susceptibility to downy mildew in Arabidopsis thaliana using the HEM collection.
Erasmus exchange student from Democritus University of Thrace

Associated via collaboration projects:

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



Past (up to 2024)

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)