Dolf Weijers

Dolf Weijers is a professor and chair of Biochemistry at Wageningen University (the Netherlands), and leads a group focused on how cells acquire identity; the mechanisms that specify individual cells and how cells communicate to form an ordered pattern, especially in the Arabidopsis embryo. Given the central role of the signaling molecule auxin in cellular decisions, a key focus area is on understanding the mechanisms underlying auxin responses. Projects include identifying and investigating the functions of key proteins that regulate these processes, using a wide range of approaches in cell biology, molecular biology and biochemistry, structural biology, mathematics, and bioinformatics.

Prior to assuming his current position in 2017, Dolf was junior group leader (2006), assistant (2008), associate (2010) and full (2012) professor at the Laboratory of Biochemistry in Wageningen, post-doc with Gerd Jürgens at the University of Tübingen (Germany; 2002-2005) and PhD student in Leiden (the Netherlands; 1997-2002).