Silke Robatzek is a Heisenberg Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Her research focuses on molecular plant-microbe interactions, having published on immune receptor signaling and trafficking. She holds a doctoral degree in Biochemistry (University of Cologne, Germany) and a Habilitation in Plant Cell Biology (University of Basel, Switzerland). In 2001 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland. In 2006, she obtained a group leader position at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, followed 2009-2018 by her employment at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK. She is the recipient of an ERC Young Investigator Grant 2012 call, and since January 2021 she is holds an ERC Advanced Grant (2019 call). Her role in the Horizon Europe-funded BeXyl consortium is to elucidate immune response signatures in olive, developing molecular tools and comparing cultivar differences.
J.A. Jimenez Berni
Role: Task Leader
Research Scientist at the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-IAS). More than 25 years of experience in Plant pathology and Molecular Microbiology Mail: jose.berni@csic.es
