Schwessinger, Benjamin - The Australian National University

个人简介

Academic Education and Employment 05/2015-ongoing Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the laboratory of John Rathjen 01/2014-05/2015 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA Research Associate 07/2011-04/2015 University of California, Davis, USA Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the laboratory of Pamela Ronald 10/2010-04/2011 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the laboratory of Cyril Zipfel 10/2007- 09/2010 The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK 3-year PhD in the laboratory of Cyril Zipfel 10/2006-09/2007 John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Rotation Year of the 4 year PhD program 10/2004-07/2006 University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Graduation in Plant Science, B. Sc. with Honours First Class Degree 09/2002-09/2004 University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Study of Biochemistry until the pre-Diploma Fellowships/Scholarships 10/2015-09/2018 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australia 07/2012-ongoing Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Fellowship, International 01/2012-06/2012 European Molecular Biology Organization Long-Term Fellowship, Europe 10/2006-09/2010 Rotation PhD Scholarship John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK 05/2005- 06/2006 Sainsbury Undergraduate Studentship in Plant Science, UK 10/2002-07/2006 Scholarship for Intellectually Gifted People of the State of Bavaria, Germany 09/2002-09/2010 Scholarship of e-fellows.net, Germany Awards 07/2011 John Innes Foundation Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, UK 09/2006 Short-listed for the SET Student of the Year Awards in 2006, UK 07/2006 Plant Science Scholarship of the University of Glasgow, UK 06/2005 Lang Scholarship (Botany) of the University of Glasgow, UK

研究领域

My general research interest is driven by the desire to understand communication at a molecular level within an organism, between individual species, and within a given ecosystem. The consequential quest to explore how these communications influence evolution and evolve complements my initial research question. Early on in my career I choose plant-microbe interactions as an overarching model system to understand these far reaching research questions. In particular I am interested in plant immunity, biochemical signal transduction mechanisms, genomics and host-microbe co-evolution in an agronomical setting. Specifically, I aim to uncover fundamental mechanisms of plant innate immunity and develop new ways to introduce robust and durable resistance in crop plants. The goals of my research program are the following: Uncover biochemical mechanisms defining robust broad-spectrum resistance in plants Uncover genetic variation enabling microbes to evade plant immune activation Evolve synthetic plant immune receptors with novel recognition specificities

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Schwessinger B*, Bart R, Krasileva KV, Coaker G*. Focus issue on plant immunity: from model systems to crop species. Front Plant Sci. 2015;6:195. [PubMed] Schwessinger B*, Bahar O*, Thomas N, Holton N, Nekrasov V, Ruan D, et al. Transgenic Expression of the Dicotyledonous Pattern Recognition Receptor EFR in Rice Leads to Ligand-Dependent Activation of Defense Responses. PLoS Pathog. 2015 Mar 30;11(3):e1004809. [PubMed] Lao J, Sharma MK, Sharma R, Fernández-Ni?o SMG, Schmutz J,… Schwessinger B*. Proteome profile of the endomembrane of developing coleoptiles from switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). Proteomics. 2015 Mar 1; in press [PubMed] Zuo S, Zhou X, Chen M, Zhang S, Schwessinger B, Ruan D, et al. OsSERK1 regulates rice development but not immunity to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae or Magnaporthe oryzae. J Integr Plant Biol. Dec 1;56(12):1179–92. [PubMed] Cain B, Budke JM, Wood KJ, Sweeney NT, Schwessinger B*. How postdocs benefit from building a union. eLife Sciences. 2014 Nov 21;3:e05614. [PubMed] Macho AP*, Schwessinger B*, Ntoukakis V*, Brutus A, Segonzac C, Roy S, et al. A Bacterial Tyrosine Phosphatase Inhibits Plant Pattern Recognition Receptor Activation. Science. 2014 Mar 28;343(6178):1509–12. [PubMed] Chen X*, Zuo S*, Schwessinger B*, Chern M, Canlas PE, Ruan D, et al. An XA21-Associated Kinase (OsSERK2) Regulates Immunity Mediated by the XA21 and XA3 Immune Receptors. Mol Plant. 2014 May;7(5):874-92. [PubMed] Malinovsky FG, Batoux M, Schwessinger B, Youn JH, Stransfeld L, Win J, et al. Antagonistic Regulation of Growth and Immunity by the Arabidopsis Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor HOMOLOG OF BRASSINOSTEROID ENHANCED EXPRESSION2 INTERACTING WITH INCREASED LEAF INCLINATION1 BINDING bHLH1. Plant Physiol. 2014 Mar 1;164(3):1443–55. [PubMed] Bahar O, Pruitt R, Luu DD, Schwessinger B, Daudi A, Liu F, et al. The Xanthomonas Ax21 protein is processed by the general secretory system and is secreted in association with outer membrane vesicles. PeerJ. 2014 Jan 7;2:e242. [PubMed] Wang E, Schornack S, Marsh JF, Gobbato E, Schwessinger B, Eastmond P, et al. A Common Signaling Process that Promotes Mycorrhizal and Oomycete Colonization of Plants. Current Biology. 2012 Dec 4;22(23):2242–6. [PubMed] Han SW, Lee SW, Bahar O, Schwessinger B, Robinson MR, Shaw JB, et al. Tyrosine sulfation in a Gram-negative bacterium. Nature Communications. 2012 Oct 23;3:1153. [PubMed] Dardick C, Schwessinger B, Ronald P. Non-arginine-aspartate (non-RD) kinases are associated with innate immune receptors that recognize conserved microbial signatures. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2012 Aug;15:358–66. [PubMed]