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Stefanie Ranf, Chair, Phytopathology, Technical University of Munich Both, animals and plants sense invading pathogens through conserved microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs), by specific host pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) and trigger innate immune responses. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of gram-negative bacterial cell walls strongly activates several immune receptors in mammals. LPS also triggers immune defences in plants. We have…

Valeria Culotta, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Research in the Culotta lab focuses on the role of metal ions and oxygen radicals in biology and disease. Metal ions such as copper, iron and manganese are not only trace nutrients but can be quite toxic. One mechanism of toxicity is through generation of…

Timothy Close, Professor and Geneticist, Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside Agricultural Plant Genomics and BreedingResource development: high-density genotyping, genome sequences, markers, germplasmCowpea (Vigna unguiculata): biotic & abioitic stress, seed quality, domestication traitsDehydrin proteins and multigene family.