chloroplast development and signalling
during plant adaptations to abiotic stress

the team

from left to right, top to bottom: Eliza, Charlotte, Anniek, Mariëlle, Kevin, Jesse, Eline
Photo: December 2022

Charlotte Gommers
Assistant Professor
Member of the retrograde signalling team since: February 2019
Worked before at: Utrecht University (PhD), Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (Barcelona, Postdoc)
Research interests: I am fascinated about the way plants are capable of integrating various signals from their environment to optimise growth and survival. During my post-doc I discovered how chloroplast-derived retrograde signals can alter nuclear gene expression to interfere with other pathways, such as the light signalling pathway that is activated by photoreceptors. I would like to find out now, how (stressful) environmental changes affect chloroplasts and the release of retrograde signals, and how these signals integrate in the nucleus to promote optimal survival.

Mariëlle Schreuder
Lab Manager
Member of the retrograde signalling team since: February 2019
Eliza van Veen
PhD candidate
Member of the retrograde signalling team since: November 2021
Jesse Küpers
Post-doc
Member of the retrograde signalling team since: April 2022
Anniek Oosterwijk
PhD candidate
Member of the retrograde signalling team since: September 2022
Eline Eggermont
PhD candidate
Member of the retrograde signalling team since: October 2022
Kevin Rooijackers
MSc thesis student
Aisha So
MSc thesis student
Yuhong Zheng
MSc thesis student
Former team members
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Ramon de Bont - MSc student from September 2021 until March 2022
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Melissa van As - BSc student from April until July 2021
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Melanie van Driel - BSc student from October 2020 until February 2021
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Tom Gijsberts - BSc student from September 2020 until October 2020
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Konstantinos Ntoumos - PhD candidate from September 2019 until September 2020
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Marietheres Kleuter - Erasmus exchange student from February 2020 until September 2020
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Reiny Sangster - MSc student from September 2019 until March 2020 & June until September 2020
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Niels van de Haar - BSc student from September 2019 until January 2020, research assistant August 2020