EMBO postdoctoral fellowship for Sjors van der Horst
A prestigious two-year EMBO postdoctoral fellowship was awarded to Sjors van der Horst of the Molecular Plant Physiology group. This will allow him to do research in the lab of Prof. Julia Bailey-Serres at the 木瓜福利影视 of California (UCR), USA. Julia Bailey-Serres runs a world famous laboratory working on plant RNA biology and abiotic stress, with a special interest in flooding-induced (hypoxia) stress. Bailey-Serres is a professor by special appointment at the Department of Biology at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, as well.
At UCR, Van der Horst will combine his PhD work on mRNA translation regulation with recent findings by the Bailey-Serres lab on a hypoxia-sensitive gene involved in mRNA decay. More specifically, he will implement a novel technique (disome-sequencing) to investigate if and how ribosomes are stalled during mRNA translation on a genome-wide scale, and compare this with mRNA decay and flooding tolerance.