Dr Clement Pellegrin | Department of Plant Sciences

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Research group

Plant-Parasite/Pathogen Interactions based at the Crop Science Centre

Biography

After a PhD at the INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) in Nancy, France where I studied the molecular dialogue between the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor and the poplar tree Populus trichocarpa, I moved to the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany in order to study the virulence program of the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis. I have been recently awarded a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Individual European Fellowship to decipher the cyst nematode parasitic program and better understand how their pathogenicity is orchestrated.

Publications

Genome expression dynamics reveals parasitism regulatory landscape of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita and a promoter motif associated with effector genes, 2021, bioRxiv

A new esophageal gland transcriptome reveals signatures of large scale de novo effector birth in the root lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans, 2020, BMC Genomics

Laccaria bicolor MiSSP8 is a small-secreted protein decisive for the establishment of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, 2019, Environmental Microbiology

Molecular Signalling During The Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis in Biology of the Fungal Cell, Third Edition, 2019

Repeat-containing effectors of ﬁlamentous pathogens and symbionts, 2018, Current Opinion in Microbiology

The biotrophic development of Ustilago maydis studied by RNAseq analysis, 2018, The Plant Cell

Laccaria bicolor MiSSP8 is a small-secreted protein decisive for the establishment of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, 2017, BioRxiv

Comparative analysis of secretomes from ectomycorrhizal fungi with an emphasis on small-secreted proteins, 2015, Frontiers in Microbiology