July 2023

Eleonora Moratto's manuscript "Enhanced germination and electrotactic behaviour of Phytophthora palmivora zoospores in weak electric fields" has been accepted for publication and is available as Open Access in Physical Biology. Congratulations for your excellent work Eleonora!

Eleonora Moratto attended the 2023 International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI) conference in Rhode Island (USA), with a poster titled "The role of electric fields in Phytophthora palmivora - Arabidopsis thaliana interactions"

 

March 2023

Eleonora Moratto published a critical review on "The bioelectricity of Plant-Biotic interactions" in the journal Bioelectricity. It is part of the special issue "Bioelectricity of Plants", co-edited by GS.

YumnegLi is joining the lab for her project in the MRes Molecular Engineering of the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering (IMSE)  . In collaboration with the group of Dr Connor Myant at Dyson School, she will be generating novel designs for 3D-printed hydrogel structures for plant cultivation.

Toby Elmer, Roman Strode and Rangel Xiao are joining the lab for their final-year undergraduate projects. They will study the bioelectric interaction between Palmivora and Arabidopsis, root electrotropism in Arabidopsis ecotypes and other plant species, respectively.

 

February 2023

Stefania Zattoni is a PhD student from the University of Verona, joining us for a few months as part of a collaboration with Prof. Sara Zenoni. Stefania will work on callus regeneration in Arabidopsis and grapevine species.