New PI at the IMPB
We are pleased to announce that Angelina Gross will join the IMPB as a new Principal Investigator starting March 1, 2025.
Research Focus:
"To survive under harsh and changing environmental conditions, organisms rely on rapid cellular reprogramming processes.
With her independent research group Dr. Angelina Gross will study mechanisms of stress-dependent autophagy initiation. Autophagy is a quality control mechanism, crucial for plant survival. It selectively targets and degrades a wide range of cellular components -including metabolites, proteins, organelles, even pathogens- to mobilize resources that fuel cellular reprogramming.
How at a cellular level plants sense and translate abiotic stress signals such as heat-, salt- and light-stress into adaptive autophagy responses and adjust the autophagic cargo composition to the respective stress conditions, however remains unclear. Thus, the Gross Labs research, dissecting the regulatory logic of stress response pathways will provide us with novel insights to improve plant resilience and productivity in the face of the global climate crisis."
Link to the latest publication of the Gross Lab
Bluesky: @angegross.bluesky.social
X: @Ansa_Lina
www.thegrosslab.com
