van der Knaap, Esther
Esther van der Knaap
Professor
Genetics; Plant Biology
The regulation of fruit shape and size of tomato and other Solanaceous crops
The regulation of fruit shape and size of tomato and other Solanaceous crops
Integrating physiology, genomics, evolution, and microbial symbiosis to understand the biology of insect vectors of disease.
Genome bioinformatics, ecological and evolutionary genomics of yeast.
Regeneration and development; understanding cellular/molecular mechanisms that underlie neural regeneration in planarians.
Epigenetic regulation in the context of development and cancer. We focus on heterochromatin and primarily use zebrafish as a model system.
Characterizing the assembly of bacterial surface structures, Development of vaccines for viral
and bacterial pathogens, Systems approaches to understanding microbial diseases
Prokaryotic metabolism and physiology with emphasis on protein acetylation, toxic metabolites,
and complex metabolic pathway analysis, integration.
Genetic analysis of mouse development; cell fate specification in the embryonic
central nervous system; patterning of the body plan’s left-right axis.
Metabolomics and systems biology of Caenorhabditis elegans using NMR,
mass spec, and computational approaches.