New members of the DynaMo Scientific Advisory Board
The DynaMo Center is proud to announce that Group Leader Kenichi Tsuda from Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany and Researcher Sandrine Ruffel from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France have been appointed to the DynaMo Scientific Advisory Board.
Kenichi Tsuda is the group leader of the Plant Immune Network Structure and Dynamics group’s. His lab studies molecular mechanisms of plant-bacterial interactions using biochemistry, molecular genetics, genomics, and computational modeling in the plant model species Arabidopsis thaliana as well as other Brassicaceae species. In particular, the group generates and analyzes both plant and bacterial transcriptome data to understand principles in molecular interactions between plants and pathogenic, mutualistic, and commensal bacteria.
Sandrine Ruffel’s research aims to decipher the regulatory mechanisms of root nitrogen acquisition when the provision of this nutrient is spatially heterogeneous and focuses in particular on the role of long-distance signaling using physiological, genetic and transcriptomic approaches, in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Sandrine is part of the Hormones Nutrients and Development group in the Department of Biochemistry and Plant Molecular Physiology. The group aims to understand how nutrient and hormone signaling pathways interact to influence plant growth and development using different approaches such biophysics, physiology and systems biology.
Distinct and complementary expertises
With Kenichi Tsuda and Sandrine Ruffel’s expertise the DynaMo Scientific Advisory Board now comprise of six internationally leading experts within the field of DynaMo's research. All are carefully chosen based on their distinct and complementary expertises.
The main role of board is to act as a 'critical friend' providing advice and recommendations to the Head of Center and the Center Board on scientific, technical and strategic issues related to the center.
The other members of the DynaMo Scientific Advisory Board are Professor Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University; Professor Cathie Martin Department of Metabolic Biology & University of East Anglia, England; Professor Dr. Uwe Sonnewald, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and Professor Jens Stougaard Aarhus University, Denmark.