Jane Parker#


Jane Parker
Membership Number:4538
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:ORGANISMIC & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Elected:2017
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY
Homepage(s):http://www.mpipz.mpg.de/parker





Present and Previous Positions

  • 2009: Associate Professor - Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
  • 2004-2009: Max-Planck Research Fellow - Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne
  • 2001: Senior Research Group Leader - Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne Germany
  • 1998: Junior Group Leader - Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich UK
  • 1990-1998: Postdoctoral Research Associate - Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich UK
  • 1987-1990: Postdoctoral scientist - Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Fields of Scholarship
  • Plant innate immunity
  • Host-microbe interactions
  • NLR receptor signalling
  • Pathogen effector triggered immunity
  • Transcriptional reprogramming
  • Biotic stress networks
  • Arabidopsis
  • Defence homeostasis
  • Natural variation

Honours and Awards
  • 2016 - elected to EMBO
  • 2013 - elected to German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (Section 8: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
  • 2001 - Alexander von Humboldt 'Sofja Kovaleskaja' prize for excellence in science

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