Dr. Pau Formosa-Jordan

Our group studies the multicellular dynamics of plant developmental processes at different scales, from single-cell resolution to the tissue and whole-plant level, combining  mathematical modelling, microscopy and quantitative image analysis. We focus on two different developmental processes in Arabidopsis thaliana; namely, how cells become different from one another and pattern developing tissues such as the leaf and the sepal epidermis, and how multicellular and gene expression dynamics in the shoot apical meristem influence and participate in the floral transition.

1. Vijaya Batthula LV, Russell NJ, Bagde SR, Askey B, Saint-Antoine M, Brownfield B, Mughal S, Apprill LE, Khosla A, Clark FK, Schwarz EM, Alseekh S, Fernie AR, Singh A, Schrick K, Fromme JC, Skirycz A, Formosa-Jordan P, Roeder AHK (2024) The transcription factor ATML1 maintains giant cell identity by inducing synthesis of its own long-chain fatty acid-containing ligands. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.14.584694.
2. Abley K, Formosa-Jordan P, Tavares H, Chan EYT, Afsharinafar M, Leyser O, Locke JCW (2021) An ABA-GA bistable switch can account for natural variation in the variability of Arabidopsis seed germination time. Elife 10. doi: 10.7554/eLife.59485.
3. Landrein B, Formosa-Jordan P, Malivert A, Schuster C, Melnyk CW, Yang W, Turnbull C, Meyerowitz EM, Locke JCW, Jonsson H (2018) Nitrate modulates stem cell dynamics in Arabidopsis shoot meristems through cytokinins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115(6):1382-1387. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1718670115.
4. Formosa-Jordan P, Teles J, Jönsson H (2018) Single-Cell Approaches for Understanding Morphogenesis Using Computational Morphodynamics. Mathematical Modelling in Plant Biology, ed Morris RJ (Springer, Cham). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99070-5_6
5. Meyer HM, Teles J, Formosa-Jordan P, Refahi Y, San-Bento R, Ingram G, Jonsson H, Locke JC, Roeder AH (2017) Fluctuations of the transcription factor ATML1 generate the pattern of giant cells in the Arabidopsis sepal. Elife 6. doi: 10.7554/eLife.19131.