Thursday July 16, Tom Beeckman will give a seminar at 10 am in the salle des thèses. Tom is working on Lateral Root development (see below a selection of his papers on this topic). He is not only an excellent developmental biologist but is also a very entertaining speaker.

References :
– Root Cap-Derived Auxin Pre-patterns the Longitudinal Axis of the Arabidopsis Root. Xuan W, Audenaert D, Parizot B, Möller BK, Njo MF, De Rybel B, De Rop G, Van Isterdael G, Mähönen AP, Vanneste S, Beeckman T. Curr Biol. 2015 May 18 ;25(10):1381-8.

– A role for the root cap in root branching revealed by the non-auxin probe naxillin. De Rybel B, Audenaert D, Xuan W, Overvoorde P, Strader LC, Kepinski S, Hoye R, Brisbois R, Parizot B, Vanneste S, Liu X, Gilday A, Graham IA, Nguyen L, Jansen L, Njo MF, Inzé D, Bartel B, Beeckman T. Nat Chem Biol. 2012 Sep ;8(9):798-805.

– Transcription factor WRKY23 assists auxin distribution patterns during Arabidopsis root development through local control on flavonol biosynthesis. Grunewald W, De Smet I, Lewis DR, Löfke C, Jansen L, Goeminne G, Vanden Bossche R, Karimi M, De Rybel B, Vanholme B, Teichmann T, Boerjan W, Van Montagu MC, Gheysen G, Muday GK, Friml J, Beeckman T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jan 31 ;109(5):1554-9.

– Developmental regulation of CYCA2s contributes to tissue-specific proliferation in Arabidopsis. Vanneste S, Coppens F, Lee E, Donner TJ, Xie Z, Van Isterdael G, Dhondt S, De Winter F, De Rybel B, Vuylsteke M, De Veylder L, Friml J, Inzé D, Grotewold E, Scarpella E, Sack F, Beemster GT, Beeckman T. EMBO J. 2011 Jul 19 ;30(16):3430-41.

– A novel aux/IAA28 signaling cascade activates GATA23-dependent specification of lateral root founder cell identity. De Rybel B, Vassileva V, Parizot B, Demeulenaere M, Grunewald W, Audenaert D, Van Campenhout J, Overvoorde P, Jansen L, Vanneste S, Möller B, Wilson M, Holman T, Van Isterdael G, Brunoud G, Vuylsteke M, Vernoux T, De Veylder L, Inzé D, Weijers D, Bennett MJ, Beeckman T. Curr Biol. 2010 Oct 12 ;20(19):1697-706.

– Bimodular auxin response controls organogenesis in Arabidopsis.
De Smet I, Lau S, Voss U, Vanneste S, Benjamins R, Rademacher EH, Schlereth A, De Rybel B, Vassileva V, Grunewald W, Naudts M, Levesque MP, Ehrismann JS, Inzé D, Luschnig C, Benfey PN, Weijers D, Van Montagu MC, Bennett MJ, Jürgens G, Beeckman T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Feb 9 ;107(6):2705-10.
Flowering-time genes modulate meristem determinacy and growth form in Arabidopsis thaliana.

– Bimodular auxin response controls organogenesis in Arabidopsis.
Melzer S, Lens F, Gennen J, Vanneste S, Rohde A, Beeckman T. Nat Genet. 2008 Dec ;40(12):1489-92.

– Receptor-like kinase ACR4 restricts formative cell divisions in the Arabidopsis root. De Smet I, Vassileva V, De Rybel B, Levesque MP, Grunewald W, Van Damme D, Van Noorden G, Naudts M, Van Isterdael G, De Clercq R, Wang JY, Meuli N, Vanneste S, Friml J, Hilson P, Jürgens G, Ingram GC, Inzé D, Benfey PN,Beeckman T. Science. 2008 Oct 24 ;322(5901):594-7.