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

The current projects aim to elucidate how plants reprogram nuclear and plastid gene expression to optimize plant growth and photosynthesis in an ever-changing environment. The outcomes of our research are expected to enhance the understanding of the basic mechanism of phenotypic plasticity in plants and evolutionarily conserved principles of nuclear organization and nucleus-organelle communication in eukaryotes.