# Mutwil Lab **Predictive, mechanistic, and evolution-aware plant gene function.** We use AI, knowledge graphs and comparative omics to figure out **what plant genes actually do** — and then test those predictions in stress biology and across the plant kingdom. The lab is based at the **Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (PLEN), University of Copenhagen** since 2024, with a sister group at the **School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore**. ![[three_pillars.png|800]] ## Find your way - 🧠 [[Our research]] — the three-pillar programme: **gene function prediction** (core), **stress resilience**, **evolution of regulatory circuits**. - 👥 [[Our team]] — current PhDs, postdocs, M.Sc. students and interns. PI: [[Assoc. Prof. Marek Mutwil]]. - 🗞️ [[News]] — what we've been up to. *Latest: ASCENDING Investigator grant · MSCA "Stripes&Stars" · TEA-GCN in Nature Communications.* - 📚 [[Publications]] — 93 peer-reviewed papers + recent preprints. - 🚪 [[Openings]] — **we are currently hiring 5 PhD students and 1 postdoc.** - 🖼️ [[Gallery]] — lab life and fieldwork. ## We are hiring Across two new grants — **Novo Nordisk Foundation ASCENDING Investigator** (DKK 12.5 M / 5 years) and **Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network "Stripes&Stars"** — we are recruiting **5 PhD students and 1 postdoc** at the intersection of plant biology, machine learning and stress physiology. See [[Openings]] for the breakdown and how to apply, or write directly to Marek. ## Get in touch - ✉️ **Discord** · Chat with our team on https://discord.gg/qr8tYYHu7Y - 📍 **Visit** · Section for Plant Biochemistry, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. - 🔗 **Elsewhere** · [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1WY1xDwAAAAJ&hl=en) · [GitHub](https://github.com/mutwil) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2750-8597)