Researcher
Alain Goossens
- Keywords (Ghent University):plant biotechnology, Plant metabolism, metabolic engineering, hormone signal transduction
- Disciplines (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology):Cell death and senescence, Invasion biology, Epigenomics, Auto-ecology, Biogeography and phylogeography
- Disciplines (Ghent University):Agricultural plant breeding and biotechnology, Plant cell and molecular biology, Environmental plant biotechnology, Regulation of metabolism, Plant biochemistry
- See also: Alain Goossens (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)
Affiliations
- Goossens Lab (Research group)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2017 → Today - Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 1995 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 30
- Design of a bioactive metabolite discovery pipeline by exploiting the chemical warfare during tomatofungi interactionsFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Characterization of a novel branch in immunity signalling in dicot plantsFrom1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Characterization of a novel branch in immunity signalling in dicot plantsFrom1 Sep 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Characterisation of a novel branch in plant immunity signalling and assessment of its utility to engineer tomato and other dicot crop plants with increased pathogen resistanceFrom1 Jul 2023 → TodayFunding: International Cooperation and Mobility
- Characterization of the composition, functioning and role of transcription factor condensates in jasmonate signalingFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Regulatory proteins acting at the crossroads of light and jasmonate signaling: characterization of their molecular function and their impact on crop qualityFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Characterisation of phosphoregulation mechanisms in jasmonate-mediated plant stress responsesFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Unravelling the role and importance of ER-stress related proteostasis machineries in the response of tomato roots to the phytohormone jasmonateFrom1 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms by which the phytohormone jasmonate triggers the concurrent remodeling of the plant endoplasmic reticulum and reprogramming of plant metabolism.From1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Design of novel chemical-molecular tools to enlarge and adapt the endoplasmic reticulum of crop and medicinal plants for superior production of bioactive metabolitesFrom1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
21 - 30 of 160
- Dissecting cholesterol and phytosterol biosynthesis via mutants and inhibitors(2021)
Authors: Kjell De Vriese, Jacob Pollier, Alain Goossens, Tom Beeckman, Steffen Vanneste
Pages: 241 - 253 - Subfunctionalization of paralog transcription factors contributes to regulation of alkaloid pathway branch choice in Catharanthus roseus(2021)
Authors: Maite Colinas Martinez, Jacob Pollier, Dries Vaneechoutte, Deniz Malat, Fabian Schweizer, Liesbeth De Milde, Rebecca De Clercq, Joana G. Guedes, Teresa Martínez-Cortés, Francisco Hidalgo, et al.
- The heat shock protein 40-type chaperone MASH supports the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation E3 ubiquitin ligase MAKIBISHI1 in Medicago truncatula(2021)
Authors: Marie-Laure Erffelinck, Bianca Ribeiro, Lore Gryffroy, Avanish Kumar Rai, Jacob Pollier, Alain Goossens
- Modulation of Arabidopsis root growth by specialized triterpenes(2021)
Authors: Yuechen Bai, Patricia Fernandez Calvo, Andrés Ritter Traub, Ancheng C. Huang, Stefania Morales, Keylla Bicalho, Michal Karady, Laurens Pauwels, Dieter Buyst, Maria Njo, et al.
Pages: 228 - 243 - An independent evolutionary origin for insect deterrent cucurbitacins in Iberis amara(2021)
Authors: Lemeng Dong, Aldo Almeida, Jacob Pollier, Bekzod Khakimov, Jean-Etienne Bassard, Karel Miettinen, Dan Stærk, Rahimi Mehran, Carl Erik Olsen, Mohammed Saddik Motawia, et al.
Pages: 4659 - 4673 - Organization and regulation of triterpene saponin biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula(2020)
Authors: Jan Mertens, Alain Goossens, Frans de Bruijn
Pages: 209 - 219 - A hairy-root transformation protocol for Trigonella foenum-graecum L. as a tool for metabolic engineering and specialised metabolite pathway elucidation(2020)
Authors: Constantine Garagounis, Konstantina Beritza, Maria-Eleni Georgopoulou, Prashant Sonawane, Kosmas Haralampidis, Alain Goossens, Asaph Aharoni, Kalliope K. Papadopoulou
Pages: 451 - 462 - A seed-specific regulator of triterpene saponin biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula(2020)
Authors: Bianca Ribeiro, Elia Lacchini, Keylla Bicalho, Jan Mertens, Philipp Arendt, Robin Vanden Bossche, Gabriela Calegario, Lore Gryffroy, Evi Ceulemans, Julia Buitink, et al.
Pages: 2020 - 2042 - CRISPR-Cas-mediated gene knockout in tomato(2020)Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
Authors: Gwen Swinnen, Tom Jacobs, Laurens Pauwels, Alain Goossens, Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción, Ralf Welsch
Pages: 321 - 341 - Boosting the synthesis of pharmaceutically active abietane diterpenes in S. sclarea hairy roots by engineering the GGPPS and CPPS genes(2020)
Authors: Maria Carmela Vaccaro, Mariaevelina Alfieri, Nunziatina De Tommasi, Tessa Moses, Alain Goossens, Antonietta Leone