Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein

Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein is an associate professor at the Faculty of Biology at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She received her PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and carried out postdoctoral research training as a BARD fellow, at the Salk Institute in the USA. She and her team discovered that the growth of both above- and below-ground organs depends on the cell-specific function of brassinosteroid signaling. Her lab is currently engaged in researching the orchestration of hormonal signaling, cell identity, inter-tissue coordination and mechanical constraints in control of plant development, using the Arabidopsis root as a primary model system.