Master and Individual Project topics

This page provides future Master Project and Individual Project students an overview of subjects that are under study in the lab at the moment. The kind of envisaged research tasks for the students is very briefly explained (see content or abstract). Of course, students can suggest other but related topics for their Projects.

A pdf summarizing thesis possiblities can be found here.

Prof. Han Asard

  • How do plants respond to precipitation changes at the physiological and molecular level? (content)

Prof. Gerrit Beemster 

  • Unraveling dormancy progression in deciduous trees (content)
  • Recovery, a new dimension to stress research in plants. A case study of the response of the maize leaf growth zone to a cold spell (content, abstract)
  • Growth promoting endophytes (content, abstract)

Prof. Els Prinsen 

  • ACC, A signaling molecule neglected for 50 years (content)
  • ​'Forever chemicals': where do they all end-up? (content)
  • ‘Forever chemicals’: Impact of PFAS on the plant’s stress response (content)

Prof. Kris Vissenberg 

  • How do temperature changes cause rapid changes in plant growth? (content)
  • Transparent soil to study the root's rapid response to flooding (content)
  • A novel cloning technique to generate genetically modified plants (content)
  • How does endocytosis control plant growth? (content)
  • How do reactive oxygen species control cell growth? (content)

Prof. Hamada Abd Elgawad 

  • Unraveling dormancy progression in deciduous trees (content)
  • Recovery, a new dimension to stress research in plants. A case study of the response of the maize leaf growth zone to a cold spell (contentabstract)
  • Growth promoting endophytes (contentabstract)