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Core funding to the Dangl Lab is
provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Our core funding supports all the projects detailed below. In addition, it
allows us to investigate how plant microbiomes are organized in the presence of
a sophisticated immune system. We are also funded by grants from the NSF, NIH and DOE. Our ultimate goal is
to use plant and microbial genetics and genomics to determine the underlying
factors that determine specific community associations with plant roots. The
Dangl Lab is focused on three main topic areas that aim to answer the following
long term questions:
- What is the mechanism of
intracellular NLR receptor activation and how do these proteins function to
anchor the plant immune system?
- What is the diversity of pathogen
virulence factors (effectors), and does effector diversity collapse onto
limited, key host targets?
- How does the plant communicate
with growth promoting microbes and differentiate these from pathogens in
complex plant-associated microbial communities?
Jeff Dangl’s
CV can be found here and a short
Biography is here.
Two new Post-doc positions HERE in Plant Microbiome Research open
July 15, 2023 and will remain open until filled.