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Justin Lee is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, they have a particular focus on subfields such as Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Genetics, and Oncology.

The main topics covered by Justin Lee's work include:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Justin Lee has contributed research articles to various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Plant Cell
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Some of the recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Justin Lee are:

  • "Discovering dominant tumor immune archetypes in a pan-cancer census," 2021, published in Cell
  • "Air pollution exposure is linked with methylation of immunoregulatory genes, altered immune cell profiles, and increased blood pressure in children," 2021, published in Scientific Reports
  • "A comparative study of the gut microbiome in Egyptian patients with Type I and Type II diabetes," 2020, published in PLoS ONE
  • "Ecological Dynamics Impacting Bluetongue Virus Transmission in North America," 2020, published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • "Exocyst subunit Exo70B2 is linked to immune signaling and autophagy," 2020, published in The Plant Cell

Justin Lee has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Zihuai He
  • Tina Romeis
  • Christie Mayo
  • Jennifer Kopanke
  • Mark D. Stenglein

Best Publications

  • Ancient signals: comparative genomics of plant MAPK and MAPKK gene families

    Louis-Philippe Hamel;Marie-Claude Nicole;Somrudee Sritubtim;Marie-Josée Morency

  • Interplay between calcium signalling and early signalling elements during defence responses to microbe‐ or damage‐associated molecular patterns

    Stefanie Ranf;Lennart Eschen-Lippold;Pascal Pecher;Justin Lee

  • Bacteria-derived Peptidoglycans Constitute Pathogen-associated Molecular Patterns Triggering Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis

    Andrea A. Gust;Raja Biswas;Heike D. Lenz;Thomas Rauhut

  • Flg22 regulates the release of an ethylene response factor substrate from MAP kinase 6 in Arabidopsis thaliana via ethylene signaling

    Gerit Bethke;Tino Unthan;Joachim F. Uhrig;Yvonne Pöschl

  • Pep-13, a plant defense-inducing pathogen-associated pattern from Phytophthora transglutaminases.

    Frédéric Brunner;Sabine Rosahl;Justin Lee;Jason J. Rudd

  • A lectin S-domain receptor kinase mediates lipopolysaccharide sensing in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Stefanie Ranf;Nicolas Gisch;Milena Schäffer;Tina Illig

  • A harpin binding site in tobacco plasma membranes mediates activation of the pathogenesis-related gene HIN1 independent of extracellular calcium but dependent on mitogen-activated protein kinase activity.

    Justin Lee;Daniel F. Klessig;Thorsten Nürnberger

  • High Throughput Identification of Potential Arabidopsis Mitogen-activated Protein Kinases Substrates

    Tanja Feilner;Claus Hultschig;Justin Lee;Svenja Meyer

  • Ethylene signalling and ethylene-targeted transcription factors are required to balance beneficial and nonbeneficial traits in the symbiosis between the endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica and Arabidopsis thaliana

    Iris Camehl;Irena Sherameti;Yvonne Venus;Gerit Bethke

  • A novel functional target for tumor-promoting phorbol esters and lysophosphatidic acid. The p21rac-GTPase activating protein n-chimaerin.

    S Ahmed;J Lee;R Kozma;A Best

  • HrpZ Psph from the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola binds to lipid bilayers and forms an ion-conducting pore in vitro

    Justin Lee;Birgit Klüsener;George Tsiamis;Conrad Stevens

  • Loss of the vacuolar cation channel, AtTPC1, does not impair Ca2+ signals induced by abiotic and biotic stresses.

    Stefanie Ranf;Petra Wünnenberg;Justin Lee;Dirk Becker

  • A cell wall extract from the endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica promotes growth of Arabidopsis seedlings and induces intracellular calcium elevation in roots.

    Jyothilakshmi Vadassery;Stefanie Ranf;Corinna Drzewiecki;Axel Mithöfer

  • Fast Retrograde Signaling in Response to High Light Involves Metabolite Export, MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE6, and AP2/ERF Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis

    Marc Oliver Vogel;Marten Moore;Katharina König;Pascal Pecher

  • The Arabidopsis Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Phosphatase PP2C5 Affects Seed Germination, Stomatal Aperture, and Abscisic Acid-Inducible Gene Expression

    Anita K. Brock;Roland Willmann;Dagmar Kolb;Laure Grefen

  • Ca2+ signalling in plant immune response: from pattern recognition receptors to Ca2+ decoding mechanisms.

    Heike Seybold;Fabian Trempel;Stefanie Ranf;Dierk Scheel

  • Haplo-Insufficiency of MPK3 in MPK6 Mutant Background Uncovers a Novel Function of These Two MAPKs in Arabidopsis Ovule Development

    Huachun Wang;Yidong Liu;Kristin Bruffett;Justin Lee

  • The Arabidopsis thaliana mitogen-activated protein kinases MPK3 and MPK6 target a subclass of ‘VQ-motif’-containing proteins to regulate immune responses

    Pascal Pecher;Lennart Eschen-Lippold;Siska Herklotz;Katja Kuhle

  • Activation of the Arabidopsis thaliana mitogen-activated protein kinase MPK11 by the flagellin-derived elicitor peptide, flg22.

    Gerit Bethke;Pascal Pecher;Lennart Eschen-Lippold;Kenichi Tsuda

  • Dynamic Changes in the Localization of MAPK Cascade Components Controlling Pathogenesis-related (PR) Gene Expression during Innate Immunity in Parsley

    Justin Lee;Jason J. Rudd;Violetta K. Macioszek;Dierk Scheel

Frequent Co-Authors

Dierk Scheel
Dierk Scheel Leibniz Association
Thorsten Nürnberger
Thorsten Nürnberger University of Tübingen
Gerd Hause
Gerd Hause Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ulla Bonas
Ulla Bonas Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Nese Sreenivasulu
Nese Sreenivasulu International Rice Research Institute
Shuqun Zhang
Shuqun Zhang University of Missouri
Martin Romantschuk
Martin Romantschuk University of Helsinki
Jeffery L. Dangl
Jeffery L. Dangl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul Schulze-Lefert
Paul Schulze-Lefert Max Planck Society
Hans Lehrach
Hans Lehrach Max Planck Society

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