In 2017, Laure obtained her bachelor degree in Biology, with a specialization in Biology of Organisms and Ecosystems, at the University of Bordeaux (France). Then, she obtained her master degree in Biology Agrosciences in 2019, still at the University of Bordeaux, with a specialization in Mycology and Phytopathology. After almost two years working in R&D department of companies selling microbial biostimulants for plants, she joined the Root development group of Professor Tom Beeckman in 2022 as a PhD student, working on the identification and characterization of nitrification inhibitors in collaboration with an industrial partner.

Maite Saura Sanchez

Maite earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology and her Master’s Degree in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Following this, she relocated to Argentina to start her PhD at IFEVA (Buenos Aires), where she studied the role of BBX proteins in the shade avoidance responses in Arabidopsis thaliana. During this period, she also completed a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). In 2021, she joined Bert De Rybel's group to participate in a collaborative project with Tom Beeckman (PSB-VIB) and Tina Kyndt (UGent). Her current project aims to study the conserved mechanisms between dicots and monocots during de novo organogenesis processes in roots at the single-cell level.