Boch, Jens

Institute
Institute of Genetics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Topic
Analysis of bacterial type III effectors. Study of their molecular activities, their localizations within the plant cell and their plant targets. The aim is to understand their effects on the plant cell and their contribution to bacterial virulence.

Bucher, Marcel

Institute
Institute of Plant Sciences (ETH Zurich)/Botanical Institute (Univ. Cologne)
Topic
Our major research topic includes the chemical signals, their perception and the cellular transduction mechanisms triggering the regulation of mycorrhiza-specific plant phosphate transport. In Plant Micro, (1) the gene module of Lotus japonicus and (2) the phosphoproteome involved in the functional interaction in the arbuscular-mycorrhizal symbiosis will be investigated.

O'Connel, Richard

Institute
Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne
Topic
Identification of secreted fungal effector proteins through in silico analysis of ESTs and signal sequence trapping in yeast.

Döhlemann, Günther

Institute
Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
Topic
Functional characterization of Pep1, an Ustilage maydis exffector required for plant cell penetration

Dörmann, Peter

Institute
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology Golm
Topic
Role of membrane lipids in the peribacteroid membrane and in Rhizobia for plant-microbe interactions during symbiotic nitrogen fixation.

Harter, Klaus

Institute
ZMBP / Plant Physiology, University of Tuebingen
Topic
Formation of technology-centred reserach pipelines; here: Establishment of a technology-platforms for in vivo (yeast) and in planta high throughput screening for protein-protein interactions based on the mating-based split-ubiquitin system (mbSUS) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC, split YFP).

Hause, Bettina

Institute
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle, Department of Secondary Metabolism
Topic
Jasmonate detection

Hückelhoven, Ralph

Institute
Chair of Phytopathology, Technical University of Munich
Topic
In planta RAC/ROP signalling in the interaction of barley and Arabidopsis with powdery mildew fungi.

Krajinski, Franziska

Institute
Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology Potsdam
Topic
MicroRNA and transcription factor profiling: analyzing two regulatory steps of plant cell programming in response to arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) colonization

Küster, Helge

Institute
Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Abt. IV - Pflanzengenomforschung, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Topic
Transcriptome profiling of plant and fungal gene expression during AM formation. Functional analysis of legume genes required for the reprogramming of root cell development during the establishment of AM.

Lahaye, Thomas

Institute
Institut für Genetik,  Martin-Luther Universität Halle
Topic
Identification of Arabidopsis genes that are required for execution of Bs3-mediated resistance

Lee, Justin

Institute
Leibnitz Zentrum für Pflanzenbiochemie, Abteilung Stress- und Entwicklungsbiologie
Topic
Calcium signalling induced by MAMPs (Microbe-associated molecular patterns) from pathogenic and beneficial organisms in Arabidopsis thaliana

Lipka, Volker

Institute
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut der Pflanzenwissenschaften, Arbeitsgruppe Zellbiologie der Pflanzen
Topic
Funktionale Charakterisierung der "Chitin Elicitor Receptor-like Kinase" CERK1 innerhalb der pflanzlichen Immunität

Nürnberger, Thorsten

Institute
Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen (ZMBP)-Pflanzenbiochemie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Topic
Isolation of new PAMPs and their corresponding plant perception systems

Oelmüller, Ralf

Institute
Institut für Allgemeine Botanik & Pflanzenphysiologie, FSU Jena
Topic
Comparative analysis of the initial steps in the recognition of MAMPs (microbe-associated molecular patterns) from pathogens and from the beneficial plant growth promoting fungus Piriformospora indica by Arabidopsis thaliana.

Ott, Thomas

Institute
Department Genetics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Topic
Regulation of signal transduction during arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis

Parker, Jane

Institute
Department of Plant/Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck Insitute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne
Topic
Activities and dynamics of Arabidopsis intracellular defence regulators. Redox mechanisms in Arabidopsis resistance. Oomycete pathogen effector interference with plant cellular defence processes.

Parniske, Martin

Institute
Department Genetics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Topic
Perception and signal transduction in response to symbiotic microorganisms.

Requena-Sanchez, Natalia

Institute
Karlsruher Intitut für Technologie (KIT), Campus Süd, Institut für Angewandte Biowissenschaften
Topic
Analysis of secreted protein effectors from the arbuscular mycorrhizial fungus G. intraradices

Robatzek, Silke

Institute
Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung Cologne
Topic
Suppression of PAMP-triggered immunity by effectors with a special focus on the flg22/FLS2 and AvrPtoB interaction.

Romeis, Tina

Institute
Biochemie der Pflanzen, FU Berlin
Topic
Function of CDPK activation, localization and interaction with regulatory proteins during the induction of plant defence responses.

Schäfer, Patrick

Institiute
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Intitut für Phytopathologie und Angewandte Zoologie, Abteilung Phytopathologie
Topic
The functional principle pf plant proteins and fungal effectors essentially supporting the mutualistic Arabidopsis-Piriformospora indica symbiosis

Scheel, Dierk

Institute
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle, Department of Stress and Developmental Biology
Topic
Non-host resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana against Phytophthora infestans.

Schulze-Lefert, Paul

Institute
Max Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung Cologne
Topic
SNARE protein-mediated exocytosis in plant immunity