People Microbes and Immunity

Alejandra Duque

Postdoctoral Researcher

Plant – microbe interactions. Genetic determinants of pathogenicity. Infection genetics.

Anna Marotz

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ana Montalvao

Postdoctoral Researcher

Plant health. Plant and microbe genetics. Microbial ecology.

Detlef Weigel

Director

I started out as a developmental biologist, but over the past two decades years, my lab has come to focus more and more on questions of evolution. We investigate these both from a genomic perspective and starting from phenotypes, primarily, but not exclusively in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Gal Ofir

Postdoctoral Researcher

Plant immunity. Comparative immunology. Genomics.

Gautam Shirsekar

Postdoctoral Researcher

Hanna Dürr

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Hannah Gauss

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Helena Pfingst

Intern

Katerina Romanova

Doctoral Researcher

Plant-pathogen interactions. Pseudomonas syringae effectors.

Kevin Murray

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ilias Kontos

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Leon vanEss

Master Student

Luisa Teasdale

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lukas Burkhardt

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Martina Kolb

Lab Manager

Plant-pathogenmicrobiome. Lab management.

Miriam Lucke

PhD Student

Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis effectors. Plant immunity.

Natalie Betz

Research Technician

Pin-Jou Wu

PhD Student

Shanshan Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sheila Roitman

Postdoctoral Researcher