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Ueli Grossniklaus is involved in research focusing on Plant Developmental Genetics. His long-term goal is to elucidate the molecular basis of plant reproduction, with a particular emphasis on cell specification, cell-cell communication, and epigenetic gene regulation. His research covers diverse aspects of reproduction at physical, molecular, cellular, organismal, and ecological levels. He is interested in the signaling processes that regulate pollen tube growth and has identified novel, plant-specific signal transduction pathways involved in various physiological and developmental processes. Prof. Grossniklaus has made significant contributions to understanding the role of epigenetics in seed development and is particularly interested in the ecological and evolutionary aspects of the stability and inheritance of epigenetic variation. Furthermore, he has dedicated considerable effort to engineering apomixis, which is the clonal reproduction of seeds, recognizing its tremendous potential for agriculture. Over the past decade, his research has become increasingly interdisciplinary, leading to collaborations with ecologists, evolutionary biologists, engineers, and physicists, which has allowed him to develop novel approaches to address fundamental questions regarding physical constraints on cellular morphogenesis and how modes of reproduction affect genome evolution.
Department of Law