This page links to individual research profiles of some current PhD students at GMI.
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Alibek Abdrakhmanov
Autophagy & RNA biology
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Jian Yi Kok
Mechanisms and pathways of chromatin remodelling
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Johannes Rötzer
Photoreceptor-mediated spore polarization
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Pamela Vetrano
Chloroplast membrane quality control
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Vasilina Akulova
Population genomics, Quantitative genomics, Evolutionary biology
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Samuel Caygill
Forward genetics to understand herbicide resistance
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Marintia Mayola Nava Garcia
Selective autophagy in response to different environmental cues
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Victor Sanchez de Medina
Mechanistic characterization of selective autophagy players
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Jierui Zhao
Crosstalk between autophagy and other cellular trafficking pathways in plant cells