Liz Florez

Research Interests
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​Hey! I am passionate about uncovering the molecular mechanisms driving fungal pathogens and their interactions with host plants and their microbiome, utilizing in planta, in vitro, microscopy, and computational approaches. My PhD research focused on characterizing effectors in Neonectria ditissima, a necrotrophic pathogen of apples in New Zealand; alongside examining the plant's physiological and transcriptomic. At the Stukenbrock lab, I am leveraging my expertise in molecular biology and bioinformatics to investigate the functional diversity of Zymoseptoria tritici effectors, with a specific focus on exploring their antimicrobial roles and mechanisms of action within the wheat apoplast microbiome.

Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OIHSfbQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
 
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Liz-Florez-3



Short CV

2024 - Present – Postdoc at Prof. Eva Stukenbrock’s group, Environmental Genomics, Kiel University & Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. Kiel & Plön, Germany 

2020 - 2023 – Ph.D. in Biology. PhD thesis title: “Unravelling the molecular virulence mechanisms of Neonectriaditissima, a fungal pathogen of apple”. Plant & Food Research & University of Auckland, New Zealand

2017 - 2019 – M.Sc. in Molecular Plant Pathology. Plant & Food Research & University of Auckland, New Zealand


2015 - 2016 – B.Sc. thesis in Microbiology. UPCH, Lima, Peru

2011 - 2015 – B.Sc. in Biology. UPCH, Lima, Peru