Research Interests
Our research centres around topics of cell signalling, membranes and stress physiology in plants. The Laboratory has a strong tradition of expertise in electrophysiology, fluorescence imaging technologies and membrane protein biochemistry. The Laboratory is well-equipped for research at all levels from single-channel (protein) studies to genetic screens in yeast and Arabidopsis. We also produce expert software for electrophysiology, phenotypic trait analysis and homeostatic modelling under the Y-Science label.
Prof. Blatt researches the cell biology of signalling, ion channels and membrane traffic. Over the last three decades, his work has made important contributions to our present understanding of membrane transport in stomatal guard cells and its control. Over the past decade his work uncovered new and unexpected roles for membrane trafficking proteins, which members of the group are now actively pursuing.
Dr Amtmann has a long-standing interest in plant mineral nutrition and salt tolerance and her group investigates the mechanisms coordinating potassium and sodium transport within multi-cellular plant systems. In addition to electrophysiology her research makes use of cutting-edge technologies for the profiling of transcripts, metabolites and chromatin modifications to discover how plants adapt to nutrient, salt and water stress. Software has been developed to quantify changes in root architecture and is now employed to identify new genes in nutrient signalling and root development.
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