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Welcome to the Mutwil Lab!
​The Mutwil lab is located within the School of Biological Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Our group aims to uncover the function and evolution of genes, stress resilience mechanisms, and specialized metabolic biosynthetic pathways in algae and land plants using large-scale, comparative experimental, and computational approaches. Our work focuses on four interconnected research pillars: Evolution, Stress Resilience, Specialized Metabolism, and Tools & Databases. By analyzing genomic, expression, and protein-protein interaction data for hundreds of plant species, the research will expand knowledge of gene function and the evolution of the plant kingdom, with applications in engineering stress-resilient crops with higher nutritional values. The team's findings will be made accessible through online databases, which will offer invaluable resources to researchers studying gene function, evolution, and stress resilience in plants.

February update

8/2/2019

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The year of the pig started well!
  1. I am very proud to say that Camilla Ferrari, my Ph.D. student from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, defended her Ph.D. thesis with a very strong magna cum laude. Congrats to Camilla!
  2. Camilla's Ph.D. work culminated in a publication in Nature Communications (please check out the publications section). Further congrats, Camilla!
  3. We have been successful in securing a Tier 2 grant to study the biosynthetic pathways of Hedyotis corymbosa, which as potent growth inhibition activity against several forms of cancer. We will sequence and assemble the genome, generate transcriptomic and metabolomic atlas and identify the active compound by a combination of biophysical and in vivo approaches. 
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    Assoc. Prof. Marek Mutwil
    School of Biological Sciences
    Nanyang Technological University
    60 Nanyang Drive, 02s-88h
    ​Singapore 637551
    ​Email: mutwil[at]ntu.edu.sg

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