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Prof. Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion, presents "Brassinosteroid regulation of root growth across multiple scales".
Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein is a professor at the Faculty of Biology at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She received her PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and carried out postdoctoral research training as a BARD fellow at the Salk Institute in the USA. She and her team discovered that the growth of both above- and below-ground organs depends on the cell-specific function of brassinosteroid signaling. Her lab is currently engaged in researching the orchestration of hormonal signaling, cell identity, inter-tissue coordination and mechanical constraints in control of plant development, using the root as a primary model system.
Host: Dr. Siobhan Brady (sbrady@ucdavis.edu)