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
