Martine Viry-Moussaïd

I did my studies and my Ph.D. in Strasbourg (France). There I worked on Plant Virology in IBMP (Institute for Plant Molecular Biology). The title of my thesis is (in french) : “ Obtention et analyse des RNA synthétiques correspondant au génome du virus du court-noué de la vigne (GFLV) - Contribution à l’étude de l’organisation génomique du virus.” (In english I would write : “ Construction and analysis of synthetic Grapevine fanleaf virus genomic RNAs - study of the viral genomic organisation”). I joined the “Luminescing Team” in June 1996 and the title of my project is : “Regulation of guard cell intracellular calcium in intact leaves of aequorin transformed plants. ”The aim of the project is to target expression of the apoaequorin gene in transgenic tobacco and Arabidopsis (using promoters that are thought to be predominantly expressed in the guard cells) to study the regulation of guard cell intracellular calcium in intact leaves. We want to investigate the calcium response and the change in stomatal aperture after various stimuli (like ABA, water stress, different humidity and CO2 concentrations) are applied on whole leaf or seedling.

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