Professor Uta Paszkowski

  • Director of the Crop Science Centre
  • Head of Cereal Symbiosis
  • Russell R. Geiger Professor of Crop Science
Available to supervise doctoral students
Professor Uta Paszkowski

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Uta Paszkowski is the Director of the Crop Science Centre and Head of Cereal Symbiosis at the Crop Science Centre as part of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Previous Positions

2019 to present - Professor - University of Cambridge, England

2017 to 2019 - Reader - University of Cambridge, England

2012 to 2017 - Lecturer - University of Cambridge, England

2006 to 2012 - Assistant Professor - University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2003 to 2006 - Junior Group Leader - University of Geneva, Switzerland

2000 to 2003 - Staff Scientist - Syngenta Global AG, Switzerland

Qualifications

1993 - PhD - ETH Zürich, Switzerland

1989 - Diplom - University Cologne, Germany

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Awards & Fellowships

2026 - Fellow - Royal Society

2020 - Member - European Molecular Biology Organization

Research

Research Group 

Cereal Symbiosis based at the Crop Science Centre

Research Overview

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.

School of Biological Sciences Theme Affiliations

Infection and Immunity

Publications

Selected publications

The negative regulator SMAX1 controls mycorrhizal symbiosis and strigolactone biosynthesis in rice 30 April 2020 Nature Communications Jeongmin Choi, Tak Lee, Jungnam Cho, Emily K Servante, Boas Pucker, William Summers, Sarah Bowden, Mehran Rahimi, Kyungsook An, Gynheung An, Harro J Bouwmeester, Emma J Wallington, Giles Oldroyd & Uta Paszkowski Arbuscular cell invasion coincides with extracellular vesicles and membrane tubules 5 February 2019 Nature Plants Ronelle Roth, Stefan Hillmer, Charlotta Funaya, Marco Chiapello, Karin Schumacher, Libera Lo Presti, Regine Kahmann & Uta Paszkowski A rice Serine/Threonine receptor-like kinase regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at the peri-arbuscular membrane 8 November 2018 Nature Communications Ronelle Roth, Marco Chiapello, Héctor Montero, Peter Gehrig, Jonas Grossmann, Kevin O’Holleran, Denise Hartken, Fergus Walters, Shu-Yi Yang, Stefan Hillmer, Karin Schumacher, Sarah Bowden, Melanie Craze, Emma J Wallington, Akio Miyao & et al An N-acetylglucosamine transporter required for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses in rice and maize 26 May 2017 Nature Plants Marina Nadal, Ruairidh Sawers, Shamoon Naseem, Barbara Bassin, Corinna Kulicke, Abigail Sharman, Gynheung An, Kyungsook An, Kevin R Ahern, Amanda Romag, Thomas P Brutnell, Caroline Gutjahr, Niko Geldner, Christophe Roux, Enrico Martinoia & et al Rice perception of symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi requires the karrikin receptor complex 18 December 2015 Science Caroline Gutjahr, Enrico Gobbato, Jeongmin Choi, Michael Riemann, Matthew G Johnston, William Summers, Samy Carbonnel, Catherine Mansfield, Shu-Yi Yang, Marina Nadal, Ivan Acosta, Makoto Takano, Wen-Biao Jiao, Korbinian Schneeberger & et al

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part 1A Physiology of Organisms

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part 1B Plant and Microbial Sciences 

Undergraduate Natural Sciences Tripos Part II M2 Microbes: Genomes, Evolution and Lifestyles