Our Research Group
robatzek(at)biologie.uni-muenchen.de
Silke comes from Germany, she is a Heisenberg Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, 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. Her team now examines how plants interact with vascular pathogens and investigates novel bacterial infection strategies.
Prof. Dr. Silke Robatzek
Group Leader
oseias.feitosa(at)lmu.de
Oséias is from Brazil. He did his Ph.D at the University of Sao Paulo and had also one year of experience as a visiting student at the UC, Berkeley and as an affiliate at Joint Genome Institute, DOE. In our group his main focus is to investigate components of the hosts‘ immune system against X. fastidiosa. Multi-omics and bioinformatics are tools that will be used to evaluate and achieve candidates for immunity and susceptibility components.
Dr. Oséias Feitosa-Junior
Postdoctoral researcher
laura.krassini(at)biologie.uni-muenchen.de
Laura comes from Germany. Her main focus is to determine the role of bacterial extracellular vesicles during the infection process in plants. As a model organism Laura uses the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. For the project several techniques are developed and combined to get a better understanding of the cargo of bacterial EVs in planta.
Laura Krassini
doctoral candidate
jingli.lao(at)biologie.uni-muenchen.de
Jingli Lao comes from China. Her main focus is to investigate the relationship between microbiome and plant disease. She is also interested in bioinformatics, which is a crucial tool for analyze the metagenomics.
Jingli Lao
doctoral candidate
el.mor(at)biologie.uni-muenchen.de
Eliana comes from Italy. Her main focus is to investigate the plant immune responses activated in the vascular tissues after Xylella fastidiosa infection. She is also interested in developing novel biosensors to support this investigation.
Dr. Eliana Mor
Postdoctoral researcher
n.rodriguez(at)lmu.de
Neysa is a biologist from Costa Rica. In our group she is in charge of the characterization and transformation of the Xylella fastidiosa strains, as well as the optimization of protocols for olive tissue culture and its transformation. She also studies the role of prophages in Xylella virulence.
Neysa Rodríguez-Murillo
research assistant
alessa.ruf(at)lmu.de
Alessa is originally from Germany and studied Biotechnology in France and the Netherlands. Her main research focus is understanding the role of bacterial extracellular RNA in infection using RNA-sequencing. Furthermore, she is interested in developing RNA-based controls of plant pathogens.
Alessa Ruf
doctoral candidate
katarzyna.rybak(at)biologie.uni-muenchen.de
Kasia comes from Poland. Her main research focus is to identify plant immune components involved in Xylella fastidiosa recognition using reverse genetic and proteomic approaches in a plant model system Arabidopsis thaliana. She is also interested in optimizing assays to test immune responses in a non-model plant system such as olive.
Dr. Katarzyna Rybak
Postdoctoral researcher
fi.vieira(at)lmu.de
Filipe comes from Portugal. His main focus is to study genetic adaptation of Xylella fastidiosa to the plant environment. To do that he wants to combine transcriptomic and translational analysis with the development of new molecular tools that will enable the visualization of Xylella cells in their natural environment, the xylem vessels of plants.