Jane E. Parker
Jane Elisabeth Parker (born May 29, 1960 in St. Albans , United Kingdom) is a British geneticist and professor at the University of Cologne .
Career
Parker studied biology at the University of Bradford and received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Wales in Great Britain on protein synthesis in Euglena . She then did research at the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne and at the Sainsbury Laboratory of the John Innes Center in Norwich, Great Britain. In 2001, she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne as a research group leader in the Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions . In 2002 she received the Sofja Kovaleskaja Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for her research into the mechanisms that plants use to recognize and combat pathogenic microorganisms.
From 2004 to 2009 she was a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne. Since 2009 she has been a professor at the Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne .
research
Parker researches the innate immune response of plants. She investigates how plants fight pathogens through the regulation of the various mechanisms, absorb neutral or useful microbes and respond to competing environmental conditions and stress factors (e.g. nutrient deficiency). Her research work takes place mainly on Arabidopsis thaliana .
In her research, she found that plants have multiple levels of defense, but that the first trigger is a protein called EDS1, which forms a complex with other proteins. The respective immune response depends on which type of complex EDS1 enters into with the proteins PAD4 and SAG101 in order to trigger the respective reaction.
Awards
- since 2016 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- since 2013 member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2004–2009 Independent Research Fellowship of the Max Planck Society
- 2002 Sofja Kovaleskaja Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Web links
- Jane Parker at Google Scholar
- Jane Parker on the website of the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jane Elizabeth Parker: Developmental regulation of protein synthesis in Euglena gracilis . 1986 ( worldcat.org [accessed August 16, 2020]).
- ↑ a b Award Winners 2002. Accessed on August 16, 2020 .
- ^ Molecular snapshot of the plant immune system's signal box. Retrieved on August 16, 2020 .
- ^ EMBO Member - Jane E. Parker. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ^ Leopoldina members - Jane E. Parker. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parker, Jane |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parker, Jane Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British biologist and professor at the University of Cologne |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St Albans |