Meiller-Legrand Thomas
Meiller-Legrand Thomas - Postdoctoral fellow
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.
Wilkinson Helen
Wilkinson Helen - Postdoctoral fellow
De Weyer Riet
De Weyer Riet - Predoctoral fellow
SRS2 to the rescue: boosting plant resilience in the face of soil salinization
A new publication by the lab of Sofie Goormachtig that demonstrates the role of a beneficial Microbacterium, called SRS2, that can promote plant growth even under salt stress conditions.
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.
