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Sjon Hartman has a hospitality agreement with Utrecht University but works at the University of Freiburg from January 1st 2022 onwards.

See: https://www.hartman-plantlab.com/

Research focus area: How ethylene regulates low-oxygen acclimation in submerged plants

A vast amount of the world’s harvest is lost annually due to floods. Like us humans, plants require oxygen to survive, and most terrestrial species will eventually die if they spend too much time under water. We recently demonstrated that plants use the hormone ethylene as a signal to adapt to low-oxygen conditions.

I study how an early ethylene signal leads to increased hypoxia tolerance. In addition, I aim to research whether variation in this process explains why some plants are flood-tolerant, while others are not. The ultimate goal is to use the insights gained from this research to develop more flood-tolerant crops.

This research is funded by NWO (see link below).

• Research Grant Awarded by NWO
• Dutch Financial Times nomination Young Talent 2017
• NPO Radio 1 Interview - PhD defense
• BNR News Radio (Dutch) - How plants survive when flooded
• Dutch National news (NOS) - How some plants survive being flooded
• Mini Lecture Dutch Radio BNR
• EMBO Best Poster Award N-term 2017
• Article ScienceBattle Dutch Newspaper
• Interactive Science Education show in Science Museum Nemo
• Podcast Plant Friends (Dutch)
• Article Bionews "Helping Suffocating plants"
• ResearchGate
• Publons Profile
• Google Scholar Profile