Yuling Jiao takes over our “Development, growth and differentiation” area after Ykä Helariutta.
Yuling Jiao’s lab combines multidisciplinary approaches to study plant development, in particular shoot lateral appendage formation and patterning. In combination with mathematical simulation, they study the 3D form acquisition of leaves, the primary aerial organ. In addition, they study how a stem cell lineage is maintained in the leaf axil to enable shoot branching. More recently, the lab has spearheaded plant synthetic genomics research, and aims at establishing the first synthetic plant chromosome.
Affiliation: School of life science, Peking University, China
e-mail: yuling.jiao@pku.edu.cn
key words: Patterning, morphogenesis, leaf, axillary meristem, regeneration
webpage: http://bio.pku.edu.cn/enhomes/news/teacher_dis/1092.html
Ko Noguchi is succeeding Matsuo Uemura, who is retiring later this year. The subject area “Ecophysiology, stress and adaptation” is evolving and Ko is in charge of “Plant ecophysiology and climate”.
Terrestrial plants play an important role in supporting various matters in our lives and global environment. Our lab specializes in understanding physiological mechanisms of responses of respiration and photosynthesis of terrestrial plants to fluctuating environments. We utilize various ecophysiological methods and techniques in order to clarify the underlying mechanisms of diverse plants such as model plants, Arabidopsis thaliana and rice, endangered plants and medicinal plants. Additionally, our research spans a range of scales from cellular to leaf level, and instantaneous (millisecond order) to seasonal levels.
Affiliation: Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Japan
e-mail: knoguchi@toyaku.ac.jp
key words: Respiration, Photosynthesis, Mitochondria, Primary metabolism, Environmental changes, Cost and benefit
webpage: https://www.ls.toyaku.ac.jp/~ecology/english.html