I am working as a postdoctoral scientist within the group of Professor Nick Talbot. I am very much interested in the role of septins during plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. My main focus is to identify the function of septins during both appressorium mediated plant infection and cell-to-cell movement during plant invasion.
Iris.Eisermann@tsl.ac.uk
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Two genes in a pathogenicity gene cluster encoding secreted proteins are required for appressorial penetration and infection of the maize anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum graminicola. Environ Microbiol. 2019 Oct 9. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14819.
Read moreCorrespondence between symptom development of Colletotrichum graminicola and fungal biomass, quantified by a newly developed qPCR assay, depends on the maize variety. BMC Microbiol. 2016 May 23;16:94. doi: 10.1186/s12866-016-0709-4.
2019 – present Postdoctoral Scientist, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
2014 – 2019 PhD, Department of Phytopathology and Plant Protection, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2011 – 2014 MSc, Crop Plant Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2007 – 2010 BSc, Agricultural Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany