Umeå Plant Science Center
I m a Postdoctoral researcher at UPSC (Sweden).
In August 2023, I began an new chapter in my research journey, joining forces with the two teams of Stéphanie and Stéphane, within the Umeå Plant Science Centre. Building upon my previous experiences, my current project centers around unraveling the intricate relationship between epidermal cells and their superstructures in response to various mechanical stressors.
Before that, I did my PhD from 2018 to 2022 at UCLouvain (Belgium), where I delved into the fascinating "in silico" realm of root hydraulic anatomy under Guillaume guidance. My curiosity led me to explore further the hidden half, as I embarked on two short post-doc at UCLouvain.
Anatomical functions are quite surprising and to unravel their mysteries I mostly use computational models. As a results, I hope that a better understanding at the anatomical level will improve the ways we grow plants.
Overview of the few project I have been working on.
Theoretical relationship between epidermal cells and their superstructures to mechanical stress.
A. Heymans, Özer Erguvan, Olivier Ali, Stéphanie Robert, Stéphane Verger
The influence of heterogeneous soil water potential on root growth, modeling root plastic response
A. Heymans, T. Wei, M. Laurent, X. Draye and M. Javaux.
Combining cross-section images and modeling tools to create high-resolution root system hydraulic atlases in Zea mays
A. Heymans, V. Couvreur, and G. Lobet.
Radial water fluxes in a generated root cross section
A. Heymans, and V. Couvreur
Virtual phenotyping pipeline for root hydraulic traits.
A. Heymans, V. Couvreur, F. Meunier, M. Javaux, X. Draye, and G. Lobet.
Generator of root anatomy in R.
A. Heymans, V. Couvreur, T. LaRue, A. Paez-Garcia, G. Lobet.
MARSHAL, a novel tool for virtual phenotyping of maize root system hydraulic architectures
F. Meunier, A. Heymans, X. Draye, V. Couvreur, M. Javaux, and G. Lobet
From root system scans to a 3D models of your plant in few steps.
Plant models - Image analysis software tools - Image dataset
quantitative-plant.org . A website presenting image analysis software tools and models for plants
Doing Sciences with R
R for Data Science. This book will teach you how to do data science with R
Data to Viz. From Data to Viz leads you to the most appropriate graph for your data. It links to the code to build it and lists common caveats you should avoid.