Regulation of gene activity in plants: the phosphate starvation rescue system

Mechanisms underlying nutrient uptake and phytoremediation

Our group is involved in the identification of relevant genes in root architecture and in arsenic tolerance to develop biotechnological tools for…

Role of ubiquitin in the control of plant growth and stress tolerance

Jasmonate signalling and plant defence

Signalling networks in plant development and defence responses

Natural variation of plant development

Structure and function of molecular chaperones

Our group is devoted to the structural determination of macromolecular complexes, among them molecular chaperones, proteins that assist the folding…

Biocomputing Unit

We work in the field of three-dimensional microscopy, both electron and Soft X-rays microscopy, focusing on the development of new image processing…

Molecular Biophysics of DNA repair nanomachines

Our group study DNA-protein interactions involved in DNA break repair and maintenance using novel approaches based on Single Molecule (SM) techniques…

Structural biology of virus fibres

Structural biology of virus fibres