Dr. Pau Formosa-Jordan

In my research group we use mathematical modelling, microscopy and quantitative image analysis to better understand the dynamics of plant developmental processes at different scales, from single-cell resolution to the tissue and whole-plant level. Currently, we focus on two different developmental processes in Arabidopsis thaliana: We are studying cellular patterning in the leaf epidermis and we are investigating how gene expression patterns in the shoot apical meristem influence the floral transition and meristem shape.

1. Abley* K, Formosa-Jordan* P, Tavares H, Chan EYT,  Afsharinafar M, Leyser O and Locke JCW (2021) An ABA-GA bistable switch can account for natural variation in the variability of Arabidopsis seed germination time. eLife; 10:e59485. (*: equal contributors) 
2. Landrein B, Formosa-Jordan P, Malivert A, Schuster C, Melnyk CW, Yang W, Turnbull C, Meyerowitz EM, Locke JCW and Jönsson H (2018) Nitrate modulates stem cell dynamics in Arabidopsis shoot meristems through cytokinins. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 115:1382-1387
3. Formosa-Jordan* P, Teles* J and Jönsson H (2018) Single-cell approaches for understanding morphogenesis using Computational Morphodynamics. In: Morris R. (eds) Mathematical Modelling in Plant Biology. Springer, Cham
4. Meyer* HM, Teles* J, Formosa-Jordan* P, Refahi Y, San-Bento R, Ingram G, Jönsson H Locke, JCW and Roeder AHK (2017) Fluctuations of the transcription factor ATML1 generate the pattern of giant cells in the Arabidopsis sepal. eLife; 10.7554/eLife.19131. (*: equal contributors)  
5. Fàbregas* N,  Formosa-Jordan* P, Confraria* A, Siligato R, Alonso JM, Swarup, R., Bennett MJ, Pekka Mähönen A, Caño-Delgado AI and Ibañes M (2015) Influx carriers control vascular patterning and xylem differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genetics, 11(4): e1005183. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005183. (*: equal contributors)