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Optimizing plant expression systems to establish refinded platforms for specific applications currently unmet by the microbial and animal cell culture systems.

Research on formation of lateral root primordia in the pericycle to investigate how cell cycle regulation is involved in the initiation of new organs, understand how the branching pattern of roots becomes established by disentangling the molecular basis of lateral root spacing mechanisms that guarantee an optimal uptake of water and nutrients from the soil.

Engineering plant cell wall composition for a more cost-effective conversion of plant biomass into fermentable sugars or aromatic building blocks, understanding the biosynthesis, polymerization and structure of lignin, and how lignin biosynthesis integrates into plant metabolism and development, characterizing of metabolites, identifying new genes in aromatic metabolism.

Research on the complex organelle-organelle and organelle-to-nucleus cross-talk using high-end multi-omics and cell biology approaches.

Research on the continuous development and optimization of interactomics tools for plant research, more specifically for the discovery of protein-protein interactions and interactions between proteins and nucleic acids, understanding carbon and nitrogen signaling in relation to plant growth, stress resilience and crop yield, with the aim to adapt to or mitigate climate change, exploration of nutrient signaling in relation to plant growth, with ...

Integrating developmental, cell and evolutionary biology to understand how plant vascular tissues develop, research on cellular mechanism of division orientation, development control of vascular proliferation, evolution of vascular tissues.

Research on protein interactions and post-translational protein modifications ,exploring phosphorylation-mediated signaling during abiotic stress, using an up-to-date workflow to capture protein phosphorylation proteome-wide, temperature signaling.

Understanding how cell-cycle control genes drive plant cell proliferation, and to elucidate how cell division control interacts with different aspects of plant development, such as morphogenesis, architecture and growth, both under control and stress conditions, identifying the underlying mechanisms that control cell division might open opportunities to adjust plant size, yield, and architecture.

Research on how plant roots interact with neighboring organisms in a mutualistic, commensalistic or parasitic way. In particular, we are interested in deciphering the signaling mechanisms that guide these interactions.