PLANT SIGNAL RESEARCH GROUP
The focus of our research is to understand the interactions between plants and environment on a molecular level.
We develop state-of-the art systems for plant phenotyping.
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Meet The Team
Hannes Kollist
Professor of molecular plant biology
I am fascinated in researching mechanisms by which guard cells integrate information from outside as well as inside the leaf to adjust plant gas exchange. I am also excited in developing technologies that allow studying plant behavior in various growth conditions.
Bahtjor Rasulov
Senior research fellow
Pirko Jalakas
Research fellow
Heikko Rämma
Engineer
ALUMNI
Liina Jakobson
I work at the Estonian Crop Research Institute as a researcher in plant genetics. My favourite topics are marker-assisted selection in crop breeding and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing of crop plants. Among many other species our institute works with cereals such as wheat and barley, Solanum plants such as potato and tomato and also with legumes and rapeseed.
Hanna Hõrak was awarded a start-up grant by the Estonian Research Council and currently leads the Molecular Plant Physiology Lab in the Institute of Technology at University of Tartu.
Hanna Hõrak
My research is focused on plant water economy and the effects of global climate change on plants on different scales, from the molecular to the ecosystem level. Particularly, I am interested in plant responses to elevated CO2 concentration. Recently I have also become interested in the genetic regulation of cuticle formation, which is an important process for drought resistance in plants.
Dmitry Yarmolinsky
Senior research fellow
I have done a long way from my PhD studies of thyroid cancer, research of plant sulfur metabolism to our current project on identification of new stomatal regulators. I am interested in roles of stomatal signaling in plant adaptation to ever-changing environmental conditions.
I hope that gaining a better understanding of how plants work will help make the world a better place.