Stam AG
At Kiel University (Germany), he is continuing his research on diversity in resistance between different populations of Solanum chilense, moving beyond genomics and studying differences in actual defense responses. He also started work on the evolution of pathogen populations, both in nature and in crops.
Further information and contact
https://www.phytopathology.uni-kiel.de/en/staff/remco-stam
Environmental Genomics
The Environmental Genomics group, headed by Prof.Eva H Stukenbrockis, is part of the Botanical Institute of the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel in the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Research in the group focuses on different aspects of fungal evolution. The group integrates experimental, molecular, and computational approaches to study adaptation and population genetics in plant pathogenic fungi and plant-associated microbes.
Further information and contact
https://www.environmental-genomics.de
Bergelson Lab NYU
The Bergelson lab studies the ecology and evolution Arabidopsis thaliana and its wild relatives, with an emphasis on interactions between hosts and their associated microbes. The lab has a long-standing interest in host-pathogen coevolution, which began as a focus on the maintenance of ancient balanced polymorphisms in Arabidopsis resistance genes but has extended to consider the roles of community context, shared hosts, and, most recently, the structure of the immune network itself. In related work, we have been exploring the dynamics of host resistance and pathogen effector repertoires underlying interactions with Pseudomonas. Finally, we are interested in the genetic and ecological determinants shaping and assembling the microbiome,
and how microbiome-pathogen and pathogen-pathogen interactions impact plant fitness and infection success. To answer these questions, the lab draws on fields as diverse as ecology and evolution, molecular genetics, microbiology, population genetics and molecular evolution, bioinformatics, and chemistry. The lab’s work combines high-throughput laboratory assays, field surveys and experiments, molecular genetic manipulation, and – in collaboration with a diverse set of labs – both modelling and the development of theoretical and analytical frameworks
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https://bergelsonlab.org/home/
Laura E. Rose
At the Institute of Population Genetics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Our field of specialization is plant evolutionary genomics, with a special focus on plant-microbe interactions. Our main research involves population genetic studies of wild tomato species and Arabidopsis species. Two main questions have stood in the foreground of our research: the molecular genetic basis of plant-microbe interactions and the population genetics underlying natural variation in plants and their pathogens.
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