Dr. Philippine Vergeer has been awarded a 2008 VENI grant

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23 Sep 2008
Unit: Platform ecological and evolutionary genomics

 Dr. Philippine Vergeer has been awarded a 2008 VENI grant on an ecogenomic topic. She is currently postdoc at the University of Leeds, UK, and will start working on her VENI project,  beginning next year at the new department of Ecogenomics of the Radboud University Nijmegen, together with Dr. Joop Ouborg. She will work on the interaction between environmental stress (nitrogen stress), inbreeding depression and epigenetic control via DNA methylation, in the perennial plant species Scabiosa columbaria. Recently, close to 100.000 EST sequences were obtained for this species by 454 pyrosequencing. These sequences are currently used to design a Scabiosa columbaria specific microarray, that will be extensively used in the project. In addition she will perform methylation screening and methylation manipulation experiments, using European populations from high and low nitrogen deposition sites.

Philippine defended her thesis “Introduction of  threatened species in a fragmented and deteriorated landscape” at the Radboud University in 2005, and then became postdoc in the large NERC funded Post-genomics project on Arabidopsis lyrata petraea : “Plant responses to abiotic stress at range margins”” .

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