Professor Uta Paszkowski

Cereal Symbiosis based at the Crop Science Centre

 

The mutually beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most widespread association between roots of terrestrial plants and fungi of the Glomeromycota. The association receives increasing scientific attention because of the nutritional benefit it confers to plants, its ubiquitous occurrence among contemporary plant species and, as a result of its evolutionary antiquity, an ancestral relationship to other plant interactions. Our research focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and functioning of AM symbioses in rice and maize. It aims at developing knowledge to optimize the incorporation of the AM-symbiosis into sustainable yet modern agricultural practices.

 

 

Teaching

 

2019-present Professor, University of Cambridge

2017-2019 Reader, University of Cambridge

2012-2017 Lecturer, University of Cambridge

2006-2012 Assistant Professor, University of Lausanne

2003-2006 Junior Group Leader, University of Geneva

2000-2003 Staff Scientist, Syngenta

 

1993 PhD, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

1989 Diplom, University Cologne, Germany

 

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