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The 4th Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award 2018 Winner

Plant innate immunity: from the plasma membrane to the field

Cyril Zipfel
Professor, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich

Cell surface receptor kinases are essential to perceive extracellular stimuli and to modulate cellular outputs during growth and development, as well as in response to environmental challenges. In plants, cell surface-localised pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) involved in ‘non-self’ innate immune perception are receptor kinases, or are part of heteromeric receptor kinase complexes. In my presentation, I will present our recent work that shed light on the molecular mechanisms that control the formation and activation of plant PRR complexes leading to downstream immune responses. In addition, I will illustrate how the use of plant PRRs represents a promising biotechnological tool to engineer broad-spectrum and potentially durable disease resistance in crops.

Reference

  1. Freddy Boutrot and Cyril Zipfel (2017) Function, Discovery, and Exploitation of Plant Pattern Recognition Receptors for Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 4(55): 257-286. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080614-120106.

  2. Cyril Zipfel and Giles E. D. Oldroyd (2017) Plant signalling in symbiosis and immunity. Nature, 543(7645): 328-336. DOI: 10.1038/nature22009.

  3. Daniel Couto and Cyril Zipfel (2016) Regulation of pattern recognition receptor signalling in plants. Nature Reviews Immunology, 16(9): 537-552. DOI: 10.1038/nri.2016.77.


Award Lecture

Date Thursday, October 4th, 2018
Time 13:30 - 15:10
Place Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University
Website https://www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/istbm-6/program.html#day-1

Winners

The 5th Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award 2019

Kay M. Tye (The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, USA)

The 3rd Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award 2017

Marina Barna (Stanford University, USA)

The 2nd Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award 2016

Yukiko Yamashita (University of Michigan, USA)

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