Good afternoon all
As most of you will be aware by now, some new faces have joined us in the Plant-PATH center recently!
Maria Bednarczyk has joined Magnus' group in Aarhus as a PhD student, coming to us from Jagiellonian University in Poland and a recent research stay at the University of Virginia. She will focus her PhD project on the disordered cytosolic region of the
canonical PIN auxin transporters.
Lucas Wilson has also joined Magnus' group as a PhD student. He most recently worked on MAGE-RING ligases and their interactions with the ubiquitination machinery at the EMBL outstation in Grenoble. In Plant-PATH, Lucas will focus on the role of disordered
cytosolic regions in PIN auxin transporters.
Johannes Busch is starting his PhD in Chloé's group in Brussels, where he will investigate the structures and functional mechanisms of the transport proteins LAX3, WAT1, and PIN8. He joins Plant-PATH after completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees
at the University of Tübingen, where he worked on projects spanning Kinesin-1 motility, lipid nanoparticle composition, and immunology.
I am sure you will all join me in congratulating them on their new positions and welcoming them into the Plant-PATH center 🤩 Reach out and say hi if you have the chance and have a look at our website for the news story with their full profiles and pictures:
https://mbg.au.dk/plant-path.
Until soon,