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For M.S. students, your advisor when you are admitted to KAUST is the Program Chair. For Ph.D. students, your advisor is your PI (supervisor) whose lab you have been accepted in to.
Yes, you can change your advisor. M.S. students are advised to do so if/when they begin their thesis or directed research. Ph.D. students do have the ability to change advisors, but the overall impact to the Ph.D. project, as well as the time left to finish the Ph.D., could be significant. This will have to be taken into account before approval.
M.S. students need 36 credits (combination of courses and research is specific to your program).
Ph.D. students need 6 credits of 300-level coursework and will earn dissertation research credit each semester until they defend (no minimum credits established, although there is a minimum residency requirement of 2.5 years).
M.S. students get all university holidays (Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha, Spring break).
Ph.D. students get university holidays and three weeks of annual/vacation leave per calendar year to be taken in agreement with your PI.
Yes. Drop and Add deadlines are on the academic calendar.
Your GPC can help you request these from the Registrar’s Office, or you can contact them directly at RegistrarHelpDesk@KAUST.EDU.SA
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Abstract:
The research in my lab focuses on understanding the fundamental mechanisms of plant development, particularly root development in Arabidopsis thaliana. The main emphasis is on lateral root formation, a prime example of post-embryonic organogenesis that enhances plants' ability to forage for nutrients and stabilize their anchoring.
Our work integrates studies of hormone signaling (especially auxin), mechanical forces, cellular dynamics, and gene regulation. Our current and future research focuses on three main questions:
1. How do abutting lateral root founder cells coordinately polarize and swell?
2. How the direction of organ axes is set during post-embryonic growth?
3. How do cell growth and division contribute to the emergence of cell identities?
In my talk I will present recent results related to these points.
Bio:
Dr. Maizel obtained his PhD in 2002 from the René Descartes University and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (France). After a post-doc in San Diego (Salk Institute, USA) and in Tübingen (Max Planck Institute for developmental Biology, Germany), he was appointed in 2006 as CNRS staff scientist at the Plant Science Institute on the CNRS Campus of Gif-sur-Yvette. Since 2010 he is at the Center for Organismal Studies of the Heidelberg University, first as an independent group leader and now as a professor.
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