Speaker
Caroline Gutjahr
Caroline Gutjahr is a director of the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany, where she heads the Department of Root Biology and Symbiosis. Previously she was Professor of Plant Genetics at the Technical University of Munich and before that an independent Emmy Noether group leader at the LMU Munich. She gained her PhD at the University of Lausanne in the laboratory of Uta Paszkowski and studied Biology at the University of Freiburg. Her research group aims at understanding the development and function of arbuscular mycorrhiza, a symbiosis between land plants and beneficial fungi. The research of her team focuses in particular on the regulation of nutrient exchange, the role of plant hormones and transcriptional networks in physiological, molecular and plant cell developmental changes required to accommodate arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi inside the root and to adjust symbiosis development with environmental conditions and the resulting physiological needs of the plant. As the fungi can enhance nutrition and increase stress resistance of plantsthere is increasing interest in the use of the fungi in sustainable agricultural practices. Therefore, the Gutjahr lab also investigates the genetic underpinnings of fungus-mediated improvement of plantperformance with the aim to enable breeding of mycorrhiza-optimized crops.
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Talks at this conference:
| Fri, 8:45 | Form and function of a plant-fungal symbiosis |