Assignments and research activities:

• Leader of the Plant – Bacteria Interactions Group
• Molecular analyses of the colonization mechanisms of human pathogenic bacteria on plants
• Function of bacterial effector proteins
• Molecular studies on resistance mechanisms inducible by bacterial quorum sensing molecules
• Priming for increased resistance
• Signal cascades induced in plant cells after pathogen attack
• PrimedPlant (BMBF)
• Perception of long-chain AHL in plant cells (DFG)
• COST Action „Control of Human Pathogenic Micro-organisms in Plant Production Systems” 

Boards, memberships and other activities:

• Private lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig
• MC of COST Action CA16110
• Associated editor of:
  
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

• Reviewer for various trade journals and promotional programs:
  
  • Nature, The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, FEMS, New Phytologist, Environmental Microbiology

• Member of the Working Group on Human Pathogens
• Member of the German Phytomedical Society (DPG)

Professional career & education, academic education and qualifications:

• 2016 Habilitation at TU Braunschweig, Germany
• 2013 Habilitation at JLU Giessen, Germany Work entitled: Plant interactions with bacteria: complex play with multiple levels
• 1998 - 2001 Ph.D. study at the Department of Plant Ecology, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• 1993 - 1998 Study of biology at the University of Warsaw, Poland

Professional career:

• since 2015 Group leader at the JKI Braunschweig Private lecturer at the TU Braunschweig
• 2013 - 2016 Private lecturer at Justus Liebig University Giessen
• 2009 - 2015 Group leader, Plant-Bacteria Interactions Group at Institute for Phytopathology, JLU Giessen, Germany
• 2007 - 2009 CNRS postdoctoral position at the Plant Genomics Research Unit, URGV, Evry, France
• 2006 - 2007 GEN-Au postdoctoral position at the Max F. Perutz Lab., VBC, Wien, Austria
• 2003 - 2005 INRA postdoctoral position at the Institute for Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Physiology (BPMP), INRA/UM-2/CNRS/Agro-M, Montpellier, France
• 2002 - 2003 Postdoctoral fellowship from the French Ministry of Research at the BPMP Institute, INRA/UM-2/CNRS/Agro-M, Montpellier, France
• 1998 - 2001 Research Assistant in the DFG-Project “Rhizodermal transfer cells” at the University of Oldenburg, Germany

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Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut