Our lab fuels the battle against the urgent threat of climate change by revealing the genetic circuitry and cell signaling mechanisms underpinning plants’ responses to environmental light and temperature change.

The current projects aim to understand how plants reprogram nuclear and plastid gene expression to optimize growth and photosynthesis in particular environments. The outcomes of our research elucidate the basic mechanism of phenotypic plasticity in plants and evolutionarily conserved principles of nuclear organization and nucleus-organelle communication in eukaryotes.