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Ueli Grossniklaus

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Ueli Grossniklaus is a plant developmental geneticist at the University of Zurich. His laboratory studies reproduction, cell communication and epigenetic control in plants.

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About Ueli Grossniklaus

Ueli Grossniklaus is a plant developmental geneticist at the University of Zurich. His laboratory studies reproduction, cell communication and epigenetic control in plants.

Academic and professional background

He received his doctorate at the University of Basel, initially studying animal development, before extending developmental genetics approaches to plants. His work has addressed seed formation, genomic imprinting and Polycomb-mediated regulation. His group also studies how epigenetic variation persists across generations and investigates clonal seed production. He is one of the four coauthors of Introduction to Epigenetics.

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Professor of Plant Developmental Genetics. University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Introduction to Epigenetics

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