Education

Ph.D. in Plant Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Current position

He is a Professor at the department of Biology of the University of Antwerp. Previously, he was a group leader at the department of Plant Systems Biology in the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology and a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Missouri. His research is in Plant Growth Regulation using an integrated, systems biology approach involving molecular analyses, microscopy and image analysis and computational modeling

Publications (since 2010)

1. Avramova, V., AbdElgawad, H., Zhang, Z., Fotschki, B., Casadevall, R., Vergauwen, L., Knapen, D., Taleisnik, E., Guisez, Y., Asard, H. and Beemster, G. T. (2015). Drought induces distinct growth response, protection and recovery mechanisms in the maize leaf growth zone. Plant Physiol. (Epub ahead of print)
   
2. Vanzo, E., Jud, W., Li, Z., Albert, A., Domagalska, M. A., Ghirardo, A., Niederbacher, B., Frenzel, J., Beemster, G. T., Asard, H., Rennenberg, H., Sharkey, T. D., Hansel, A. and Schnitzler, J. P. (2015). Facing the future: Effects of short-term climate extremes on isoprene-emitting and nonemitting poplar. Plant Physiol 169(1): 560-575.
   
3. Dzhurakhalov, A., Avramova, V. K., Vissenberg, K., Beemster, G. T. S. and Broeckhove, J. (2015). Modelling the cell expansion in maize leaf. Communications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences 80, 103-109.
   
4. De Vos, D., De Borger, E., Broeckhove, J. and Beemster, G. T. (2015). Simulating leaf growth dynamics through Metropolis-Monte Carlo based energy minimization. Journal of Computational Science 9: 107-111.
   
5. AbdElgawad, H., De Vos, D., Zinta, G., Domagalska, M. A., Beemster, G. T. and Asard, H. (2015). Grassland species differentially regulate proline concentrations under future climate conditions: an integrated biochemical and modelling approach. New Phytol. (Epub ahead of print)
   
6. Zinta, G., Abdelgawad, H., Janssens, I. A., Beemster, G. T. and Asard, H. (2014). Repeated selection of Arabidopsis thaliana under heat stress. Commun Agric Appl Biol Sci 79(1): 83-85.
   
7. Zinta, G., AbdElgawad, H., Domagalska, M. A., Vergauwen, L., Knapen, D., Nijs, I., Janssens, I. A., Beemster, G. T. and Asard, H. (2014). Physiological, biochemical, and genome-wide transcriptional analysis reveals that elevated CO₂ mitigates the impact of combined heat wave and drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana at multiple organizational levels. Glob Chang Biol 20(12): 3670-3685.
   
8. Kalve, S., Fotschki, J., Beeckman, T., Vissenberg, K. and Beemster, G. T. (2014). Three-dimensional patterns of cell division and expansion throughout the development of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. J Exp Bot 65(22): 6385-6397.
   
9. Kalve, S., De Vos, D. and Beemster, G. T. (2014). Leaf development: a cellular perspective. Front Plant Sci 5: 362.
   
10. Dhondt, S., Gonzalez, N., Blomme, J., De Milde, L., Van Daele, T., Van Akoleyen, D., Storme, V., Coppens, F., TS Beemster, G. and Inzé, D. (2014). High‐resolution time‐resolved imaging of in vitro Arabidopsis rosette growth. The Plant Journal 80(1): 172-184.
    
11. De Vos, D., Vissenberg, K., Broeckhove, J. and Beemster, G. T. (2014). Putting theory to the test: which regulatory mechanisms can drive realistic growth of a root? PLoS Comput Biol 10(10): e1003910.
    
12. Candaele, J., Demuynck, K., Mosoti, D., Beemster, G. T., Inze, D. and Nelissen, H. (2014). Differential methylation during maize leaf growth targets developmentally regulated genes. Plant Physiol 164(3): 1350-1364.
    
13. Zhiponova, M. K., Vanhoutte, I., Boudolf, V., Betti, C., Dhondt, S., Coppens, F., Mylle, E., Maes, S., Gonzalez-Garcia, M. P., Cano-Delgado, A. I., Inze, D., Beemster, G. T., De Veylder, L. and Russinova, E. (2013). Brassinosteroid production and signaling differentially control cell division and expansion in the leaf. New Phytol 197(2): 490-502.
    
14. Nelissen, H., Rymen, B., Coppens, F., Dhondt, S., Fiorani, F. and Beemster, G. T. (2013). Kinematic analysis of cell division in leaves of mono- and dicotyledonous species: a basis for understanding growth and developing refined molecular sampling strategies. Methods Mol Biol 959: 247-264.
    
15. Draelants, D., Broeckhove, J., Beemster, G. T. and Vanroose, W. (2013). Numerical bifurcation analysis of the pattern formation in a cell based auxin transport model. J Math Biol 67(5): 1279-1305.
    
16. Ubeda-Tomas, S., Beemster, G. T. and Bennett, M. J. (2012). Hormonal regulation of root growth: integrating local activities into global behaviour. Trends Plant Sci 17(6): 326-331.
    
17. Talengera, D., Beemster, G. T., Tushemereirwe, W. K. and Kunert, K. (2012). Isolation and characterisation of a banana CYCD2; 1 gene and its over-expression enhances root growth. African Journal of Biotechnology 11(45): 10328.
    
18. Quimbaya, M., Vandepoele, K., Raspe, E., Matthijs, M., Dhondt, S., Beemster, G. T., Berx, G. and De Veylder, L. (2012). Identification of putative cancer genes through data integration and comparative genomics between plants and humans. Cell Mol Life Sci 69(12): 2041-2055.
    
19. Peret, B., Swarup, K., Ferguson, A., Seth, M., Yang, Y., Dhondt, S., James, N., Casimiro, I., Perry, P., Syed, A., Yang, H., Reemmer, J., Venison, E., Howells, C., Perez-Amador, M. A., Yun, J., Alonso, J., Beemster, G. T., Laplaze, L., Murphy, A., Bennett, M. J., Nielsen, E. and Swarup, R. (2012). AUX/LAX genes encode a family of auxin influx transporters that perform distinct functions during Arabidopsis development. Plant Cell 24(7): 2874-2885.
    
20. Nelissen, H., Rymen, B., Jikumaru, Y., Demuynck, K., Van Lijsebettens, M., Kamiya, Y., Inze, D. and Beemster, G. T. (2012). A local maximum in gibberellin levels regulates maize leaf growth by spatial control of cell division. Curr Biol 22(13): 1183-1187.
    
21. Eloy, N. B., Gonzalez, N., Van Leene, J., Maleux, K., Vanhaeren, H., De Milde, L., Dhondt, S., Vercruysse, L., Witters, E., Mercier, R., Cromer, L., Beemster, G. T., Remaut, H., Van Montagu, M. C., De Jaeger, G., Ferreira, P. C. and Inze, D. (2012). SAMBA, a plant-specific anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome regulator is involved in early development and A-type cyclin stabilization. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(34): 13853-13858.
    
22. Draelants, D., Vanroose, W., Broeckhove, J. and Beemster, G. T. (2012). Influence of an exogenous model parameter on the steady states in an auxin transport model. Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications (PMA), 2012 IEEE Fourth International Symposium on, IEEE.
    
23. Dhondt, S., Van Haerenborgh, D., Van Cauwenbergh, C., Merks, R. M., Philips, W., Beemster, G. T. and Inze, D. (2012). Quantitative analysis of venation patterns of Arabidopsis leaves by supervised image analysis. Plant J 69(3): 553-563.
    
24. De Vos, D., Dzhurakhalov, A., Draelants, D., Bogaerts, I., Kalve, S., Prinsen, E., Vissenberg, K., Vanroose, W., Broeckhove, J. and Beemster, G. T. (2012). Towards mechanistic models of plant organ growth. J Exp Bot 63(9): 3325-3337.
    
25. Andriankaja, M., Dhondt, S., De Bodt, S., Vanhaeren, H., Coppens, F., De Milde, L., Muhlenbock, P., Skirycz, A., Gonzalez, N., Beemster, G. T. and Inze, D. (2012). Exit from proliferation during leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana: a not-so-gradual process. Dev Cell 22(1): 64-78.
    
26. Vanneste, S., Coppens, F., Lee, E., Donner, T. J., Xie, Z., Van Isterdael, G., Dhondt, S., De Winter, F., De Rybel, B., Vuylsteke, M., De Veylder, L., Friml, J., Inze, D., Grotewold, E., Scarpella, E., Sack, F., Beemster, G. T. and Beeckman, T. (2011). Developmental regulation of CYCA2s contributes to tissue-specific proliferation in Arabidopsis. EMBO J 30(16): 3430-3441.
    
27. Perez-Perez, J. M., Rubio-Diaz, S., Dhondt, S., Hernandez-Romero, D., Sanchez-Soriano, J., Beemster, G. T., Ponce, M. R. and Micol, J. L. (2011). Whole organ, venation and epidermal cell morphological variations are correlated in the leaves of Arabidopsis mutants. Plant Cell Environ 34(12): 2200-2211.
    
28. Pedersen, D. S., Coppens, F., Ma, L., Antosch, M., Marktl, B., Merkle, T., Beemster, G. T., Houben, A. and Grasser, K. D. (2011). The plant-specific family of DNA-binding proteins containing three HMG-box domains interacts with mitotic and meiotic chromosomes. New Phytol 192(3): 577-589.
    
29. Merks, R. M., Guravage, M., Inze, D. and Beemster, G. T. (2011). VirtualLeaf: an open-source framework for cell-based modeling of plant tissue growth and development. Plant Physiol 155(2): 656-666.
    
30. Asl, L. K., Dhondt, S., Boudolf, V., Beemster, G. T., Beeckman, T., Inze, D., Govaerts, W. and De Veylder, L. (2011). Model-based analysis of Arabidopsis leaf epidermal cells reveals distinct division and expansion patterns for pavement and guard cells. Plant Physiol 156(4): 2172-2183.
    
31. Rymen, B., Coppens, F., Dhondt, S., Fiorani, F. and Beemster, G. T. (2010). Kinematic analysis of cell division and expansion. Methods Mol Biol 655: 203-227.
    
32. Massonnet, C., Vile, D., Fabre, J., Hannah, M. A., Caldana, C., Lisec, J., Beemster, G. T., Meyer, R. C., Messerli, G., Gronlund, J. T., Perkovic, J., Wigmore, E., May, S., Bevan, M. W., Meyer, C., Rubio-Diaz, S., Weigel, D., Micol, J. L., Buchanan-Wollaston, V., Fiorani, F., Walsh, S., Rinn, B., Gruissem, W., Hilson, P., Hennig, L., Willmitzer, L. and Granier, C. (2010). Probing the reproducibility of leaf growth and molecular phenotypes: a comparison of three Arabidopsis accessions cultivated in ten laboratories. Plant Physiol 152(4): 2142-2157.
    
33. Gonzalez, N., De Bodt, S., Sulpice, R., Jikumaru, Y., Chae, E., Dhondt, S., Van Daele, T., De Milde, L., Weigel, D., Kamiya, Y., Stitt, M., Beemster, G. T. and Inze, D. (2010). Increased leaf size: different means to an end. Plant Physiol 153(3): 1261-1279.
    
34. Dhondt, S., Coppens, F., De Winter, F., Swarup, K., Merks, R. M., Inze, D., Bennett, M. J. and Beemster, G. T. (2010). SHORT-ROOT and SCARECROW regulate leaf growth in Arabidopsis by stimulating S-phase progression of the cell cycle. Plant Physiol 154(3): 1183-1195.