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Overview

Sebastian Schornack is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research

Recent publications by Sebastian Schornack cover various aspects of plant biology and pathogen interactions. Notable papers include:

  • "Plant evolution driven by interactions with symbiotic and pathogenic microbes" (2021, Science)
  • "The renaissance and enlightenment of Marchantia as a model system" (2022, The Plant Cell)
  • "Host-interactor screens of Phytophthora infestans RXLR proteins reveal vesicle trafficking as a major effector-targeted process" (2021, The Plant Cell)
  • "An oomycete effector subverts host vesicle trafficking to channel starvation-induced autophagy to the pathogen interface" (2021, eLife)
  • "Transcriptional activity and epigenetic regulation of transposable elements in the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis" (2021, Genome Research)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Plant Cell
  • New Phytologist
  • Current Biology

Collaboration is an integral part of their work, with frequent co-authors such as:

  • Sophien Kamoun
  • Édouard Evangelisti
  • Philip Carella
  • Tolga O. Bozkurt
  • Clément Quan

Best Publications

  • Breaking the Code of DNA Binding Specificity of TAL-Type III Effectors

    Jens Boch;Heidi Scholze;Sebastian Schornack;Angelika Landgraf

  • Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

    Brian J Haas;Sophien Kamoun;Sophien Kamoun;Michael C Zody;Michael C Zody;Rays H Y Jiang;Rays H Y Jiang

  • TAL effectors: finding plant genes for disease and defense.

    Adam J Bogdanove;Sebastian Schornack;Thomas Lahaye

  • Effector biology of plant-associated organisms:concepts and perspectives

    J Win;A Chaparro-Garcia;K Belhaj;D G O Saunders

  • Ancient class of translocated oomycete effectors targets the host nucleus

    Sebastian Schornack;Mireille van Damme;Tolga O. Bozkurt;Liliana M. Cano

  • A Common Signaling Process that Promotes Mycorrhizal and Oomycete Colonization of Plants

    Ertao Wang;Sebastian Schornack;John F. Marsh;Enrico Gobbato

  • A novel nuclear protein interacts with the symbiotic DMI3 calcium- and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase of Medicago truncatula.

    Elsa Messinese;Jeong-Hwan Mun;Li Huey Yeun;Dhileepkumar Jayaraman

  • Phytophthora infestans effector AVRblb2 prevents secretion of a plant immune protease at the haustorial interface

    T. O. Bozkurt;S. Schornack;J. Win;T. Shindo

  • Apoplastic effectors secreted by two unrelated eukaryotic plant pathogens target the tomato defense protease Rcr3.

    Jing Song;Joe Win;Miaoying Tian;Sebastian Schornack

  • Standards for plant synthetic biology: a common syntax for exchange of DNA parts.

    Nicola J. Patron;Nicola J. Patron;Diego Orzaez;Sylvestre Marillonnet;Heribert Warzecha

  • Oomycetes, effectors, and all that jazz

    Tolga O Bozkurt;Sebastian Schornack;Mark J Banfield;Sophien Kamoun

  • Modular dna-binding domains and methods of use

    Ulla Bonas;Jens Boch;Sebastian Schornack;Thomas Lahaye

  • The tomato resistance protein Bs4 is a predicted non-nuclear TIR-NB-LRR protein that mediates defense responses to severely truncated derivatives of AvrBs4 and overexpressed AvrBs3.

    Sebastian Schornack;Agim Ballvora;Doreen Gürlebeck;Jack Peart

  • Promoter elements of rice susceptibility genes are bound and activated by specific TAL effectors from the bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae.

    Patrick Römer;Patrick Römer;Sabine Recht;Sabine Recht;Tina Strauß;Tina Strauß;Janett Elsaesser;Janett Elsaesser

  • Gene-for-gene-mediated recognition of nuclear-targeted AvrBs3-like bacterial effector proteins.

    Sebastian Schornack;Annett Meyer;Patrick Römer;Tina Jordan

  • Plant evolution driven by interactions with symbiotic and pathogenic microbes

    Pierre-Marc Delaux;Sebastian Schornack

  • Ten things to know about oomycete effectors

    Sebastian Schornack;Edgar Huitema;Liliana M. Cano;Tolga O. Bozkurt

  • Oomycete Interactions with Plants: Infection Strategies and Resistance Principles

    Stuart Fawke;Mehdi Doumane;Sebastian Schornack

  • The receptor-like kinase SERK3/BAK1 is required for basal resistance against the late blight pathogen phytophthora infestans in Nicotiana benthamiana.

    Angela Chaparro-Garcia;Rachael C. Wilkinson;Selena Gimenez-Ibanez;Kim Findlay

  • An Effector-Targeted Protease Contributes to Defense against Phytophthora infestans and Is under Diversifying Selection in Natural Hosts

    Farnusch Kaschani;Mohammed Shabab;Tolga Bozkurt;Takayuki Shindo

Frequent Co-Authors

Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun University of East Anglia
Thomas Lahaye
Thomas Lahaye University of Tübingen
Tolga O. Bozkurt
Tolga O. Bozkurt Imperial College London
Ulla Bonas
Ulla Bonas Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Jens Boch
Jens Boch University of Hannover
Joe Win
Joe Win University of East Anglia
Liliana M. Cano
Liliana M. Cano University of Florida
Marco Thines
Marco Thines Goethe University Frankfurt
Alexandra M. E. Jones
Alexandra M. E. Jones University of Warwick
Jonathan D. G. Jones
Jonathan D. G. Jones University of East Anglia

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