Sara Farrona

Sara graduated in Biology and afterwards joined Dr Reyes lab at the IBVF in Seville (Spain) where she received her PhD working in chromatin remodeling proteins in Arabidopsis. For her postdoc she moved to Cologne (Germany) to work with Dr Turck and Prof. Coupland at the MPIPZ in the regulation of flowering by chromatin related processes. Later on she focused in the regulation of plant development by PcG proteins working in Dr Schubert lab at the HHU (Duesseldorf, Germany). Sara is a PI at the University of Galway since 2015 where she also teaches as member of the College of Science and Engineering.

Mohan Govindasamy

Mohan is from India where he received his BSc degree in Horticulture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Then he did a MSc degree in Biotechnology at Punjab Agricultural University. Afterwards, he worked as a data analyst for a year before returning to research as a research fellow at IBAB in Bangaluru to study epigenetic modifications in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Mohan has obtained a scholarship from the CRT in Genomics Data Science to help us to understand the role of UBP5 in chromatin dynamics.

Saqlain Haider

Saqlain is from Pakistan, where he graduated in Plant Sciences from Quaid-i-Azam University. He then did a MSc from the same university and his final project focused on monocot crops, which helped him to acquire a background in both wet and dry techniques. Saqlain is now helping us to understand the evolution of new components of the PcG pathway and studying their impact on the acquisition of developmental traits throughout evolution as a member of the SFI Frontiers for the Future Inter-PWOs project.

Kiruba Nedounsejian

Kiruba comes from India, where she did her bachelor’s in applied microbiology at IGCAS. She then completed her postgraduate diploma in Biotechnology from Pondicherry University and moved to Germany to pursue her master’s in plant biotechnology, physiology, and genetics at Leibniz University Hannover, working on CRISPR genome editing of tetraploid potatoes for studying osmotic stress tolerance. As a member of the SFI Inter-PWOs project, she investigates how chromatin-associated PWOs and their interacting molecules regulate plant development. 

Nora Pasquali Medici de Biron

Nora is from Mexico where she received her BSc degree in Biotechnology Engineering from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Thereafter, she realised plants were her real calling and completed her MSc degree in Plant Biotechnology in Wageningen University specialising in molecular plant breeding. Now she joined our lab as a member of the EpiSeedLink MSCA Doctoral Network. She is interested in the epigenetic mechanisms of the memory to seed osmopriming.

Maher Un Nisa

Maher Un is a postdoctoral researcher. Originally from Pakistan, where she studied Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, she moved to France to pursue her MSc and PhD in Plant Science at the University Paris-Saclay, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris (IPS2), where she explored the players involved in plant replicative stress pathways. She later joined the Salk Institute, where she investigated the role of proteins involved in DNA repair. In our lab, she is working on the crosstalk between histone modifications and DNA repair.

Former lab members

Godwin James
Ronan Halton
Andrew Enright
Eduardo March
John Skehan
Cecilia Rengifo Rojas
Thales Ribeiro
Amandine Lucchin
Kazhina Amin
Peter Ryder
Michael Keogh
Julie Laugerotte
Jesús López
Ana Belén Benítez Tellez