Harro Bouwmeester

Harro Bouwmeester is Chair of Plant Hormone Biology at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The work in his group is multi-disciplinary and centered around signaling molecules and their role in the communication of plants with other organisms, such as parasitic plants, insects, nematodes and the microbiome. Topics that are studied are the discovery of new signaling relations using omics data, the importance of structural diversity in the signaling molecules for biological specificity - for which elucidation of biosynthesis and perception mechanisms are important – and the discovery of unknown roles of signaling molecules. 

Presentation

The use of metabolomics to unravel signalling relations with other organisms in the rhizosphere of plants