Prof. Daniel Van Damme, University of Ghent, will give a talk about "The endocytic TPLATE complex contributes to shoot apical meristem maintenance in Arabidopsis".
Daniel Van Damme obtained his master degree at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University in 2001 and a PhD in Science: Biotechnology, at the Faculty of Science at Ghent University in 2006. Between 2006 and 2015, he received two FWO postdoctoral mandates as well as an assistant professorship mandate from the Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at Ghent University and was appointed as Expert Scientist in Advanced Live Cell Imaging at the VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology where he currently holds a Principal Investigator position.
His research interest concerns the interplay between how plants determine the orientation of their divisions to shape their three dimensional body plan, what the contribution of membrane trafficking is to establish and maintain division plane orientation and how endocytosis mechanistically functions in higher plant cells. His cell-biological and live cell imaging-oriented research takes advantage of the available tools in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana combined with the high spatiotemporal resolving power of imaging dividing tobacco Bright Yellow-2 (BY-2) culture cells and Physcomitrella patens moss cells. He recently obtained an ERC Consolidator grant (Tplate REcycling compleX; T-REX) to investigate how endocytosis is orchestrated in plants. The aims of this project are to elucidate the structural composition of the TPLATE endocytic complex, to identify its cargo proteins and how this novel adaptor complex functions both independently as well as cooperatively with the evolutionary conserved AP-2 adaptor protein complex to drive clathrin-mediated endocytosis in plants.
Host: Rüdiger Simon
Guests are welcome!
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
4:30 p.m.; HS 6B
Guests are welcome!
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
4:30 p.m..
HS 6K
Meeting-Link: hhu.webex.com/hhu/j.php
Meeting-Kennnummer: 2733 531 6288
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