Seal element of the university of freiburg in the shape of a clover

Dr. Elena Kozgunova

Nagoya University
Cell biology, plant physiology

Associated member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2024 – September 2027

E-Mail: kozgunova.elena.b1@f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Elena Kozgunova is a plant biologist focused on cell division and cytoskeleton dynamics in plants. She received PhD from Nagoya University in 2016 and held Humboldt-Bayer Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2020 to 2022 while working at Freiburg University. Presently, she is a Designated Assistant Professor at Nagoya University, where she explores mechanisms of plant cell division, including spindle positioning and kinetochore gene functions.

Her research has led to significant discoveries, such as the role of spindle motility in division site determination (Nature Communications, 2022), the development of a microfluidic device for high-resolution cytoskeleton imaging (Scientific Reports, 2019) and uncovered link between genome duplication and cell division errors in moss Physcomitrella patens (eLife, 2019). Most recently, she explores how chloroplast division is integrated with plant cell division and how plant cells control the number of chloroplasts.

Selected Publications

YAS Project