New pathogens emerge regularly that threaten agricultural and natural ecosystems. We study biodiversity and emerging diseases as a result of primary infections and defence suppression by highly adapted obligate biotroph plant pathogens. [more]
My group is exploring how plants perceive and respond to invasive (host-adapted) biotrophic pathogens. We study interactions between the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and bacterial, oomycete and fungal parasites [more]
