Master Thesis subjects
This page provides future Master Thesis students an overview of subjects that are under study in the lab at the moment. The kind of envisaged research tasks for the students is very briefly explained (see content or abstract). Of course, students can suggest other but related topics for their theses.
A pdf summarizing thesis possiblities can be found here.
Prof. Han Asard / Prof. Hamada AbdElgawad
- How do plants respond to precipitation changes at the physiological and molecular level? (content)
Prof. Gerrit Beemster / Prof. Hamada Abd Elgawad
- How do Changing Rainfall Patterns in a Warming Climate affect plant growth? (content)
- Optimizing the plant microbiome for climate resilience: Growth promoting endophytes (content)
- How sugars fuel growth: An integrated understanding of the role of sugar transport and signaling in growth regulation under climate change (content)
- Recovery, a new dimension to stress research in plants. A case study of the response of the maize leaf growth zone to a cold spell (content, abstract)
- Growth promoting endophytes (content, abstract)
Prof. Els Prinsen / Prof. Sébastjen Schoenaers
- How does ACC regulate plant growth and stress resilience, independent of ethylene? (content)
- 'Forever chemicals': where do they all end-up? (content)
Prof. Kris Vissenberg / Prof. Sébastjen Schoenaers
- How do temperature changes cause rapid changes in plant growth? (content)
- Transparent soil to study the root's rapid response to flooding (content)
- Functional characterization of novel players in plant cell wall integrity sensing and signaling (content)
- How does endocytosis control plant growth? (content)
- How do reactive oxygen species control cell growth? (content)
- A novel cloning technique for light-inducible activation of genes in the ethylene pathway (content)