Ive De Smet is a BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham (Division of Plant and Crop Sciences).
I carried out my doctoral work on the control of lateral root development in Arabidopsis with Tom Beeckman at the VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology/Ghent University (Belgium). Then I obtained long-term postdoctoral fellowships from the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Scheme to carry out studies on asymmetric cell division of the Arabidopsis zygote with Gerd Jürgens at the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology/University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).
My recently established research group is interested in the involvement of membrane-associated receptor-like kinases in registering and conveying (positional) information during plant (lateral) root development. Specifically, we are investigating the ACR4-dependent signalling cascade, which we recently showed to be important for root development (De Smet et al. (2008)).
My University home page can be found here.
Published Work
- Grunewald W, De Smet I, Lewis DR, Löfke C, Jansen L, Goeminne G, Vanden Bossche R, Karimi M, De Rybel B, Vanholme B, Teichmann T, Boerjan W, Van Montagu MCE, Gheysen G, Muday GK, Friml J, Beeckman T (2012) Transcription factor WRKY23 assists auxin distribution patterns during Arabidopsis root development through local control on flavonol biosynthesis. PNAS 109, 1554–1559
- De Smet I, Voß U, Lau S, Wilson M, Shao N, Timme R, Swarup R, Kerr I, Hodgman C, Bock R, Bennett M, Jürgens G, Beeckman T (2010) Unraveling the evolution of auxin signaling. Plant Physiology 155, 209–221
Virtual Root
- De Smet I, Lau S, Voss U, Vanneste S, Benjamins R, Rademacher EH, Schlereth A, De Rybel B, Vassileva V, Grunewald W, Naudts M, Levesque MP, Ehrismann JS, Inzé D, Luschnig C, Benfey PN, Weijers D, Van Montagu MC, Bennett MJ, Jürgens G, Beeckman T (2010) Bimodular auxin response controls organogenesis in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, 2705–2710
- De Smet I, Vassileva V, De Rybel B, Levesque MP, Wim Grunewald W, Van Damme D, Van Noorden G, Naudts M, Van Isterdael G, De Clercq R, Wang JY, Meuli N, Vanneste S, Friml J, Hilson P, Jürgens G, Ingram GC, Inzé D, Benfey PN, Beeckman T (2008) Receptor-Like Kinase ACR4 Restricts Formative Cell Divisions in the Arabidopsis Root . Science 322:594–597
