Associate Professor at the department of Plant Physiology, Swammerdam Institute at teh UVA. My research focuses on how plants defend themselves against pest insects by combining metabolomics, transcriptomics and genomics with detailed phenotyping. I dissects the specialised metabolites and genetic pathways that underlie plant-insect interactions. Using tomato and pest insects like whitefly and thrips as model systems, I aim to identify natural resistance in wild tomato relatives and uncover how ...