Jenn presented research from Maël, Jana, Rolin, Claire and Nate on natural diversity in HopZ1a recognition at the concurrent session in Plant-Microbe Interactions at the Plant Biology 2020 Worldwide Summit. This research was performed in collaboration with Dr. Andrei-Jose Petrescu and Eliza Martin (Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Romania), Dr. Chelsea Specht (Cornell University) and Dr. Chodon Sass (UC Berkeley). Ilea presented a poster on our tomato work from herself, Jana, and undergraduate students, Jamie, Lizz and Steven, which describes new sources of genetic resistance to Pseudomonas syringae. Ilea also gave a talk at Psyringae2020 on our collaborative project with Dr. Joe Bondy-Denomy's lab (UCSF) which uses CRISPR-Cas3 to generate effector cluster deletions in P. syringae.
Posted Sept 15, 2020.