Differentially Phased Leaf Growth and Movements in Arabidopsis Depend on Coordinated Circadian and Light Regulation

Author Profile

Tino Dornbusch

Current Position: Application engineer, LemnaTec GmbH, Germany.

Education: Dr. Agr. (2007), Dipl.-Ing. Agr. (2003) at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Salle).

Non-scientific Interests: I love swimming, running and biking, preferably combined as a triathlon. Indoors, my kids and books keep me busy.

Having grown up on a farm, my main scientific motivation is to comprehend plant development as a holistic process taking biotic and abiotic factors into account. It seems that plant growth is a rather complex process that needs to be considered at many scales (ecosystem -> canopy -> plant -> cell). Additionally, the fast-growing knowledge on the genetic regulatory network underlying growth creates a vast amount of data, which is clearly difficult to integrate. In this regard, I believe that modeling is a useful tool to understand complex processes and discover fundamental patterns. Moreover, highly precise and time-resolved methods to monitor cell, tissue and organ growth will create a framework to unravel the secret of elementary biological processes.