Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) Grants for SPSW Researchers

10.04.2012

Two SPSW scientists received a Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) which aims at increasing the number of women in research:

• Laura Ragni from Prof. Chrisian Hardtke's lab at the Department of Plant Molecular Biology of the University of Lausanne for the project "New regulators of xylem secondary growth in Arabidopsis".
• Diana Santelia from the lab of Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus at the Institute of Plant Biology of the University of Zurich for the project "Arabidopsis guard cell carbon metabolism in response to drought stress".