Vandecasteele Michiel

Vandecasteele Michiel - Postdoctoral fellow

Michiel Vandecasteele obtained his PhD in Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University in 2019. During his PhD, he studied the occurrence, genotypic diversity, and the mode of action of pathogenic Alternaria species on Flemish potato fields, while also performing educational tasks as an assistant. In 2020, he returned to the Rhizosphere group as a doctor-assistant since he performed his Master's thesis in the same group eight years prior. Now, he investigates the action of drought-tolerance-inducing rhizobacteria on maize plants.

Temmerman Arne

Temmerman Arne - Postdoctoral fellow

I graduated in 2018 as a Master of Science in Biochemistry and Biotechnology at Ghent University, after which I performed my master thesis in the Rhizosphere group, investigating the function of parasitic KAI2 homologs in strigolactone signaling. In 2019, I then started my PhD to further unravel the KAI2 signaling pathway in Arabidopsis seeds and its role in seed germination, with a special interest in the function of the SMAX1 protein in all of this.

Rhizospheres in the lead role

"Nature Awards Science in Shorts" is an annual event hosted by the scientific journal Nature to celebrate science communication through short films. This year, colleagues from the Goormachtig lab at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology won the public's favorite prize in the competition at the "Curious2024 – Future Insight™" conference for their Microbial Medicine for Plants video.

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