News and Activities

May 2024

Science coffee, "At the plant roots", by Marie Barberon & Lothar Kalmbach

February 2024

Léa Jacquier, first PhD student of the lab, succesfully defended her PhD

August 2023

Kevin Robe and Marie Barberon published a review discussing plant mineral nutrition, nutrient carriers
localisation and nutrient sensing in Current Opinion in Plant Biology

May 2023

Kevin Robe and Marie Barberon published a News and Views on NPFs, ABA and suberin in Nature Plants

March 2023

Celeste Fiorenza joined us for her PhD

December 2022

Marie Barberon got interviewed in Journal of Cell Science as 'Cell scientist to watch'

November 2022

Marie Barberon co-organises the 11th iGe3 meeting

September 2022

Jian Pu Han presents a talk at the 5th Internationnal Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PaDiBa)

Laura Pérez Martín wins the best poster prize at the 5th Internationnal Symposium on
Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PaDiBa)

Kevin Robe wins a "thèse dêxcellence" in plant biology from the Société Française de Biologie Végétale (SFBV) and the Académie d'agriculture de France (AAF)

Plant Sciences department in the biology section annual party

August 2022

Kevin Robe wins the best poster at the 13th Congrès international de la société française de biologie végétale (SFBV) in Montpellier

July 2022

Léa Jacquier gives a talk at the 6th international conference on Plant Vascular Biology 2022 in Berlin

Kevin Robe presents his Phd work during the 20h International Symposium on Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants (ISINIP) in Reims and wins the best poster prize

June 2022

Marie Barberon was selected as a finalist of the Rising Stars in Plant Sciences 2022

Lab trip in Gruyères area, nice fondue! 

Jian Pu Han wins the award of 2nd best poster at the UNIGE postdoc day

November 2021

Léa Jacquier received the iGE3 PhD Salary Awards

Laura Pérez-Martín joined us for her Postdoc

September 2021

1st article of the lab
Vinay Shukla, Jian-Pu Han, Fabienne Cléard, Linnka Lefebvre-Legendre, Kay Gully, Paulina Flis, Alice Berhin, Tonni Grube Andersen, David E Salt, Christiane Nawrath, Marie Barberon. Suberin plasticity to developmental and exogenous cues is regulated by a set of MYB transcription factors

PNAS 2021 118 (39) e2101730118; doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101730118

Léa Jacquier wins the UNIGE Bioimaging Center Image of the Month competition

Maria Beatriz Capitão joined us for her PhD

May 2021

Vinay Shukla wins the Agrisera Best Poster Prize awarded during ISRR/Rooting 2021 online conference

March 2021

Kevin Robe joined us for his Postdoc

January 2021

Priya Ramakrishna joins the new team of Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor for 2021

September 2020

UNIGE Postdoc day - Prize winners
- Best Postdoc Talk - Second place -  Vinay Shukla
- Nikon Best Image Competition - Priya Ramakrishna

Boat tour of Lake Geneva during Kevin Robe's visit

December 2019

Lab’s X-mas party. Wishing you happy holidays! 

X-mas party Biology 

November 2019

Marie Barberon is awarded an SNSF Eccellenza grant for our research 

October 2019

Fabienne Cléard Karch joined us

July 2019

1st review of the lab
Ramakrishna P, Barberon M. Polarized transport across root epithelia.

Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2019;52:23-29. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2019.05.010 

Lab trip in lake Geneva

May 2019

Jian Pu Han joined us for his Postdoc

April 2019

Our first group picture

March 2019

Léa Jacquier joined us for her PhD

January 2019

Marie Barberon received support from the Sandoz Family Monique De Meuron philanthropic foundation’s program for academic promotion

December 2018

Xmas party Biology

October 2018

Vinay Shukla joined us for his Postdoc

September 2018

Priya Ramakrishna joined us for her Postdoc

August 2018

Xmas in August! A motorized fluorescent stereomicroscope for high throughput suberin staining!

February 2018

Lab opening