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Bert De Rybel
- VIB Group leader and Associate Professor at Ghent University as of January 2017
- Project Leader: VIB Center of Plant Systems Biology, Belgium, 2015-2017
- Postdoc: Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2010-2015
- PhD: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2009
Research areas
Plant biology | Systems biology | Cell Biology
Model organisms
Arabidopsis | Poplars | Marchantia polymorpha | Physcomitrella patens
Research focus
The vascular system of flowering plants develops from a handful of provascular initial cells in the early embryo into a whole range of different cell types in the mature plant.
In order to account for such proliferation and to generate this kind of diversity, vascular tissue development relies on a large number of highly oriented cell divisions. The transcription factor complex formed by TARGET OF MONOPTEROS5 / LONESOME HIGHWAY (TMO5/LHW) is one of the major regulators of vascular proliferation and oriented cell divisions in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.