Csaba PAPDI, a new acTOR at the IBMP
Csaba did his PhD jointly at the Biological Research Centre (Szeged, Hungary) and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (Köln, Germany). He carried out large-scale genetic screens of Arabidopsis to identify abiotic stress regulatory genes. After his thesis, he worked for six years in the Biological Research Centre on the functional characterisation of newly identified stress and growth regulatory transcription factors related to Apetala 2, zinc finger and heat shock factors. He then moved to the Royal Holloway University of London and focused on how the TOR signalling regulates growth and development through downstream transcriptional regulatory hub centred by the Retinoblastoma-related protein. Csaba joined the Ryabova group to study the post-transcriptional control of meristem maintenance through the TOR pathway.