We are pleased to announce that Mateusz Majda has been awarded an SNSF Starting Grant 2025 from the Swiss National Science Foundation to support the project Beyond division: How endoreduplication impacts multiscale growth coordination in plants. The work will investigate how DNA content, cell wall mechanics, and growth coordination interact during development, using genetic approaches, high resolution imaging, biophysical tools, and computational modeling. The project aims to clarify how cells share forces, how their walls adapt, and how local mechanical changes influence whole organ growth. The award will strengthen The Mechanobiology Lab by supporting new team members, expanding imaging and biophysical capabilities, and enabling new genetic tools to study cell cycle regulation in specific tissues. The grant amounts to approximately 1.4 million CHF (1,5 million EUR) and will support the continued development of our research program in plant mechanobiology. We thank the SNSF for this generous support.
Read more:
– SNSF Starting Grants: The SNSF is funding 41 outstanding researchers
– Beyond division: How endoreduplication impacts multiscale growth coordination in plants (SNSF Data Portal)
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