Application of interpretable machine learning methods to study regulatory DNA in plants.

Charting Arabidopsis Gene Functions from Multi-omics and Single-cell data.

Doctoral project Cristina Maria Osuna Cruz

Doctoral project Dries Vaneechoutte

Doctoral project Elisabeth Veeckman

Doctoral project Emmelien Vancaester

Doctoral project François Bucchini

Doctoral project Helder Opdebeeck

Doctoral project Jan Van de Velde

Doctoral project Ken Heyndrickx

Doctoral project Shubhada Rajabhau Kulkarni

Evolutionary, regulatory, and functional annotation of long intergenic noncoding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana

Exploring the cis-regulatory landscape of plants to unravel gene regulatory networks

Generation of tissue-specific gene regulatory networks to understand terminal differentiation of plant root cells.

Unraveling gene regulation in diatoms.

Doctoral project Andrea Del Cortona

Doctoral project Jasmien Vercruysse

Doctoral project Ludger Goeminne

Doctoral project Michiel Van Bel

Doctoral project Nadine Rijsdijk

Doctoral project Sebastian Proost

Functional analysis of regulatory genes controlling sexual reproduction, bacterial responses and stress adaptation.

Inherited memories: The role of epigenetics in intergenerational resistance against nematodes in rice

life cycle dynamics in coastal diatom populations

AI-guided regulatory genomics in plants

Bioinformatics: from nucleotids to networks (N2N)

BOF-ZAP professorship in molecular biology of plants

Charting the functional components of the diverse sexual life cycles in diatoms

ELIXIR Infrastructure for Data and Services to strengthen Life-Sciences Research in Flanders

Enzyme biodiscovery pipeline optimisation via toolbox development

From model species to crop: enhancing the translation of functional traits in plants using an integrative network-based approach.

Identification of the gene regulatory networks controlling vascular development in plants – a comparative approach at single-cell resolution

Inter-species identification of gene functions in plants based on RNA expression data Seq-

Regulatory annotation of plant genomes by means of functional chromatin signatures and comparative sequence analysis

Software development for gene-trait discovery and prioritization in agricultural biotechnology using single-cell genomics

Sorting out functionally conserved plant orthologs using comparative expression analysis

The secret garden: diatom adaptation and evolution in benthic environments

Assessment of the roles of endogenous and environmental cues controlling cell size distribution and sexual reproduction in benthic diatom populations

ELIXIR Infrastructure for Data and Services to strengthen Life-Sciences Research in Flanders

Reproductive barriers, interspecific gene flow and diversification in a globally distributed pennate diatom

Research on the organization and conservation of transcriptional regulation in plants on the basis of experimental high-throughput data

Sex signaling and life cycle evolution in pennate diatoms

SpatialConnect: linking tissue biology to the new era of single-cell spatial transcriptomics

The role of non-coding RNAs in nematode-induced transgenerational priming in rice

BOF-ZAP professorship in molecular biology of plants