Sebastian Schornack ,The Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge, UK
“Exploiting conserved development regulators to achieve oomycete pathogen resistance in legumes and barley”
Date: 28.10.2022
Time: 16:00
Location: Speakers Corner, Impulse, Wageningen
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Short CV: Sebastian Schornack is a Senior Group Leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) and Full Affiliate of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD degree in 2006 in Plant Biology, working on the structure, specificity and regulation of the Bs4 disease resistance gene. A subsequent short postdoctoral study at the University Halle resulted in the co-discovery of the TAL effector DNA binding code. Sebastian’s postdoctoral research focussed on nuclear and haustorium-associated Phytophthora effector proteins with Sophien Kamoun at The Sainsbury Laboratory Norwich. Since 2013 he is a Gatsby Fellow at Cambridge where he studies plant and microbial molecular mechanisms underlying the colonisation of plants by Phytophthora pathogens and symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi. His team has adopted and become experts in diverse plant systems from bryophytes to angiosperms. This enables them to pursue comparative and evolutionary approaches. Their work has provided novel insights into plant processes supporting and limiting plant-microbe interactions, providing inroads for crop protection and crop improvement.
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16:00 - 17:00
WUR – Impulse
Stippeneng 2, Wageningen