Project Descriptions

NameAcademic AffiliationProject NumberTitle
Prof. Dr. Caroline GutjahrMPI-MP PotsdamA02Diversity in the impact of karrikin signalling on arbuscular mycorrhiza development
Prof. Dr. Ralph Hückelhoven
and
Prof. Aurélien Tellier
TU MünchenA03The contribution of transposable elements of Blumeria graminis to cross kingdom compatibility with cereal hosts
Prof. Dr. Eric KemenEKU TübingenA04Genetic diversity within the basidiomycete yeast Dioszegia modulates reproductive fitness of the obligate pathogen Albugo laibachii on Arabidopsis thaliana
Dr. Niklas SchandryLMU MünchenA05Allelic variants underlying fitness in different biotic environments
Prof. Dr. Korbinian SchneebergerLMU MünchenA06Infection-induced germline and somatic mutation rates of resistance genes in plants
Prof. Dr. Detlef WeigelMPI TübingenA07Genomic and geographic maps of NLRs and matching effectors in the A. thaliana - H. arabidopsidis pathosystem
Dr. Marion MüllerTU MünchenA08Identification and characterisation of genes underlying host specificity/non-host resistance in the wheat powdery mildew pathosystem
Prof. Dr. Julien GronnierTU MünchenB01Regulation of plasma membrane nanoscale dynamics in plant immune signaling
PD Dr. Birgit KemmerlingEKU TübingenB02Diversification of the BIR receptor kinase family and its impact on plant health and crop yield
Prof. Dr. Thomas LahayeEKU TübingenB03Effector-induced manipulation of host polyamine levels
Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-DuranEKU TübingenB04Exploring the functional diversification of the C4 proteins encoded by geminiviruses
Prof. Dr. Thorsten NürnbergerEKU TübingenB05Functional diversification within the microbial NLP superfamily
Prof. Dr. Martin ParniskeLMU MünchenB06Sequence adaptation of Symbiosis Receptor-like Kinase (SymRK) enabling nitrogen-fixing root nodule development
Dr. Kate ParysLMU MünchenB07Genetic and functional diversity of Lotus SymRK homologous receptor kinases in root endosymbiosis
Dr. Martina Ried-LasiIPB HalleB08Functional diversity of the Arabidopsis thaliana SHRK family
Prof. Dr. Martin StegmannU UlmB09Dissection of CrRLK1L signalling pathways regulating disease susceptibility and resistance to powdery mildew
Dr. Stephen Hachinger
and
Dr. Jens Krüger
LRZ München

EKU Tübingen
I01Virtual Environement for Research Data and Analysis (VERDA)
Dr. Dagmar Hann
and
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kadereit
LMU München

LMU München, Botanical Gardens
Ö01Outreach project: Beneficial and harmful plant-microbe interactions – and how genetic diversity matters
Prof. Dr. Andreas KlinglLMU MünchenZ02Comparative ultrastructure of plant-microbe interfaces
Prof. Dr. Nadia KamalTU MünchenZ03Comparative genomics to study the diversity and conserved components inherent to the molecular interface of plant-microbe interactions
March 2023 at LMU Martinsried