Invited Speakers
Suruchi Roychoudhry
University of Leeds, UK
Suruchi Roychoudhry completed their undergraduate degree (BSc. Biotechnology) from India, and their MSc in Molecular Biology from Sussex University, UK. Suruchi then completed their PhD in the lab of Prof. Stefan Kepinski in 2009 at the University of Leeds in Plant Developmental Biology exploring the role of the plant hormone auxin in regulating organ growth angle in flowering plants. In 2015 they moved to the lab of Prof. Jean Greenberg at the University of Chicago (Chicago, USA) to work on the molecular mechanisms investigating systemic plant immunity. Suruchi then moved back to Leeds in 2016 and they're currently a Senior Research Fellow within the Centre for Plant Sciences at the University of Leeds, as well as a member of the NASA Plant Biology Open Science Analysis Working Group. Suruchi's current research interests include engineering root architecture in flowering plants for earth and space.
Yoël Forterre
Aix-Marseille
Université, France
Yoël Forterre is a Research Director at the CNRS and works at the IUSTI laboratory (CNRS/Aix-Marseille University, France), after completing a Ph.D. at the University of Provence and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the physics of granular media, complex fluids, and plant biomechanics, with a particular emphasis on mechano-perception and motion. He is the co-author of two books on granular media (Cambridge University Press) and plant physics (Royal Society of Chemistry). He has received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2014), the Ernest Deschelle Prize from the French Academy of Sciences (2017), and was elected a Fluid Mechanics Fellow by the European Mechanics Society (2019). Since 2017, he has led the CNRS national network GDR PHYP, which brings together the French scientific community working on plant biophysics and biomechanics.
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