Dr. Salma Balazadeh
Associate Professor, ULEI
Salma Balazadeh, as a plant scientist with expertise in genomics, her group study how plants cope with environmental stresses such as heat and drought. Her lab has discovered genes and mechanisms critical for stress response and memory.
“My research also investigates how microbes improve plant resilience, aiming to enhance crop yields in stressed environments, thereby supporting global food security”.
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Kevin Bretscher
PhD candidate
Kevin has a MSc in biology and currently is doing his PhD at Carrion lab at Leiden University
His research interest focuses on Salt stress, Amplicon sequencing, plant-microbe interactions. In his current role he is part of the MicroGRICE project, whose primary goal is to reduce methane emissions from rice paddies through bacteria. His overarching research goal is the development of microbe-centered strategies that will improve the sustainability of rice cultivation.
Pascal Nuijten
PhD candidate
Pascal is a PhD candidate working in the Microbial Resilience to drought stress (MicroRes) project at Carrion Lab at Leiden University.
Over the last three years his research has been centered on understanding microbe-plant interactions under drought stress. With a diverse background in bioinformatics, microbiology and molecular biology, he applies a multifaceted approach to his studies.
Guillermo Guerrero Egido
PhD candidate
Guillermo is MSc in Bioinformatics and System Biology and currently, PhD candidate at Carrion lab at Leiden University.
His work centers around the development of the comparative genomics automated pipeline “bacLife” focused on the prediction of bacterial lifestyle and lifestyle-associated genesand transcriptomics.
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