Evolutionary Functional Genomics & Metal Homeostasis Networks

Research focus

In our research group Evolutionary Functional Genomics & Metal Homeostasis Networks, we pursue an interdisciplinary approach to develop a comprehensive understanding of the function of biological networks and their evolution. We use plants as model organisms because of their experimental flexibility and the ease of sampling of natural populations at locations where selection pressures that have shaped their evolution are still present. Genome sequence data, genomics tools, transformation techniques and knockout mutant collections have increasingly become available in the past decade and are being expanded rapidly. Our group is part of the Heidelberg Institute of Plant Sciences (HIP)