Rebecca Eulitz

Research Interests
I am interested in molecular interactions between plants and fungal plant pathogens, particularly in how effectors mediate interactions with the host-associated microbiome.
For my master’s thesis, I focused on the plant side of host-pathogen interactions and worked with virus-induced gene silencing to study gene function in plants.
In my PhD project in the Environmental Genomics group, I will study the interaction between barley and the fungal pathogens Zymoseptoria passerinii and Pyrenophora teres teres, focusing on effectors and their interaction with the host phyllosphere microbiota. I aim to characterize the functional diversity of these effectors, with a particular focus on different pathogens infecting the same host.


Short CV

2026 - present: PhD student, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel

2023-2025: M.Sc in Biology, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Thesis: “A dual approach to understand Zymoseptoria-host interactions: effector mutagenesis in Z. tritici and virus induced gene silencing in host-crops” in the group of Prof. Dr. Eva Stukenbrock  

2019-2023: B.Sc. in Biology, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel