Shiwen Yang - new PhD student
On 1 August 2022, Shiwen Yang started as a PhD student at DynaMo Center as part of the Villum investigator project headed by Professor Barbara Ann Halkier.
The focus of Shiwen’s PhD project has two parts. One of them is identification and characterization of glucosinolate vacuolar transporters in S-cells. The other part is to map the transporter activity of the MATE family in Arabidopsis.
The purpose of glucosinolate transporter project is to find out how glucosinolates accumulate in the vacuole of S-cells by screening candidate transporters in Arabidopsis and Xenopus oocytes, and their localization analysis. In the MATE project, the transport activities will be screened in Xenopus oocytes using plant extracts as substrates. The project is part of the VILLUM transportomics project aimed at creating an open access database with substrate specificities of the entire Arabidopsis transportome.
Shiwen did her MSc in 2021 at the Beijing Forestry University, China, on a project focused on sugar transport of woody plants.
Shiwen is financed by a CSC fellowship grant from China during her PhD studies in Denmark.
Link to Villum investigator grant
Shiwen will be supervised by Assistant Professor Deyang Xu and Villum Investigator Professor Barbara Ann Halkier from the DynaMo Center.