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Xiao Wei

Postdoctoral fellow

Wei Xiao earned his PhD at ZMBP, University of Tuebingen, Germany, in 2022, supervised by Prof. Laura Ragni. Following that, he completed a one-year postdoctoral position at ZMBP, University of Tuebingen, Germany, supervised by Prof. Laura Ragni. In 2023, he is working as a Postdoctoral fellow in the group of vascular development, explicitly focusing on the vascular redevelopment in Selaginella moellendorffii.

konstantinova Nataliia

Postdoctoral fellow

Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Nataliia has completed her Bachelor and Master studies at Queen Mary University and Imperial University London, respectively, with a focus on plant molecular and synthetic biology. For her PhD, she has moved to the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria to the group of Professor Luschnig to decipher the mechanisms controlling protein polarity in the root. Driven by the interest of understanding mechanisms guiding polarity, currently Nataliia is focused on studying the process of oriented cell divisions in Professor De Rybel's group.

Zhu Tingting

Postdoctoral fellow

She accomplished her master study in 2017, which is followed by the PhD study with the CSC scholarship in the Functional Phosphoproteomics group at VIB in October 2017. She is working on the high temperature-mediated signaling events in Arabidopsis and crops (wheat, soybean). In Arabidopsis, She is mainly exploring how warm temperature prioritizes growth over jasmonate-mediated responses. Additionally, She is also interested in warm temperature-regulated early signaling events and the correlated networks using phosphoproteomics. In wheat, she applies phosphoproteomics to explore how high temperature affects the reproductive growth and development, followed by functional validation under high temperature.
 

Yang Shao-Li

Predoctoral fellow

In 2018, he obtained his Master's degree from National Taiwan University (NTU), where he focused on the regulation of hypocotyl development by light quantity, specifically far-red and blue light, and the phytohormone jasmonate. The research was conducted in Prof. Hsu-Liang Hsieh’s lab. After completing his MS degree, he joined Chin-Min Kimmy Ho's lab at Academia Sinica in Taiwan in 2019 as a research assistant to work on stomatal development. The paper, published in 2022, describes the impact of the cuticle on the leaf surface on stomatal differentiation. To pursue a doctoral degree and broaden his horizons, he left Taiwan and joined Prof. Ive De Smet's lab at PSB as a PhD student. Currently, his research focuses on the regulation of stomatal dynamics in plants under high temperature and protein condensation through protein phosphorylation and ubiquitination. In addition, he is currently attempting to establish several pipelines for constructing plant proteome and phosphoproteome information through mass spectrometry-based protein identification.