Jack Yu
- PhD Postgraduate Student
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Jack Yu is a PhD Postgraduate Student at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Previous Positions
2025 to 2026 – Research Assistant – University of Oxford, England
Qualifications
2025 – BA in Natural Sciences – University of Cambridge, England
Research
Research Group
Crop Pathogen Immunity based at the Crop Science Centre
Research Overview
Pathogens secrete effectors to manipulate host plants and improve pathogen fitness. Some effectors are detected by plant immune receptors to trigger immune responses, but others suppress immunity to facilitate pathogenesis. My PhD project aims to understand how and why nematode effectors target the NRC network of immune receptors in solanaceous plants, providing mechanistic and evolutionary insights into pathogen strategies and the normal immune processes that they perturb.