PhD fellow

Simon Tack obtained his Bachelors in Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Ghent (UGhent, Belgium). He stayed at UGhent to persue a Master in Molecular Plant Biology. During his Master-thesis he joined the VIB-UGhent 'Oxidative Stress Signaling' lab (led by Prof. Dr. F. Van Breusegem) where he focused on showing Metacaspase activity using FRET-based sensors under the guidance of Dr. A.D. Fernandez Fernandez and Prof. Dr. S. Stael. In November 2022 he joined the OSS lab as a PhD fellow and continues his efforts on showing protease activity in plants (Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus) under the direct supervision of Prof. Dr. Van Breusegem.

Predoctoral fellow @ Vascular Development

Yanbiao obtained his master's degree in cell biology from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in 2019, and then worked as a scientific research assistant in the same group for one year. In October 2020, he received the CSC scholarship funded by the China Scholarship Council and joined the vascular development group to pursue a doctoral degree. His project focuses on the study of phase transition of Arabidopsis root apical meristem from young to adult, involving oriented cell divisions and cell proliferation.

Naomi obtained her master’s degree in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from Ghent University in 2020. For her master’s thesis she performed an Erasmus exchange to the Sainsbury lab of Cambridge University (SLCU), where she worked on the role MtLSH1 and MtNOOT1/2 during early nodule organogenesis in Medicago truncatula within the group of Prof. Dr. Giles Oldroyd. Currently, Naomi is performing her PhD research (FWO-SB fellowship) at the Rhizosphere group of Prof. Dr. Sofie Goormachtig, this time shifting her focus to another symbiont: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). During her PhD, Naomi uses diverse single cell and -nuclei transcriptomics and proteomics approaches to obtain a better understanding of the immunity-related crosstalk occurring during the tomato-AMF symbiotic interaction.

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