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Eirini Kaiserli's interest in biology led her from the island of Kos, Greece to the UK, where she obtained a degree in Biotechnology (with Work Placement) from the University of Glasgow in 2004. Eirini was introduced to photoreceptor research during her Work Placement at Stanford University (Briggs lab, Carnegie Institute, Washington), and subsequently completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Glasgow (Prof. Jenkins lab) investigating the function and localization of the genetically encoded UV-B receptor, UVR8. Following her PhD, Eirini briefly worked on phototropin research, developing plant blue-light sensory LOV domain fluorescent markers in the lab of Prof. Christie at the University of Glasgow. In 2009, Eirini was awarded a Human Frontiers Science Program postdoctoral fellowship to join the Chory lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California), where she studied the function of novel signaling components that integrate light, hormone, and clock networks to promote plant growth. In 2013, she received the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellowship to establish her own lab at the University of Glasgow, focusing on understanding how environmental stimuli induce changes in nuclear architecture, chromatin organization, and gene expression that regulate plant growth and development. She is particularly interested in elucidating the molecular function, composition, and physiological significance of light-regulated nuclear body complexes in plants using a multi-disciplinary approach.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow, UK
Leading research in molecular biosciences and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students.