Profiles

Dr. Ronan Suplice

Ronan's background is in the field of plant responses to the environment with a strong emphasis on the metabolic aspects and the understanding of how plants are functioning with the aim at improving their yield performances, especially in terms of sustainability, either by genetic means or the modification of cultural practises. Ronan's doctoral study was carried out in the University of Rennes (France) on the topic of rape seed responses to osmotic stress. He then performed postdoctoral studies at the National Institute for Basic Biology (Japan) where he studied the response of plants to salt stress, then at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) where he worked on the role of Abscisic acid in the protection of plants against high light stresses and then at the Max Planck of Molecular Plant Physiology (Germany) where he studied the coordination of the primary metabolism in response to genetic and environmental perturbations and its relationship with variations in biomass production.

Ronan took a faculty position in the Botany and Plant Science Department at the National University of Galway (Ireland) in 2012. Ronan established his own lab on arrival in NUIG, the work being carried out in his laboratory is aimed at understanding the diurnal flexibility of the usage of photosynthetates in response to environmental cues and then identifying molecular markers/genes responsible for plant robustness.