Research Interests
Plants and their immune systems have fascinated me since my first botany lectures. During my master's thesis, I had the opportunity to gain insights into transcriptome analyses of plants during fungal infection and to evaluate their immune response. I studied the transcriptome of Aegilops cylindrica, a wild grass closely related to wheat, infected with the devastating wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. As a PhD student, I would now like to further focus on plant transcriptomics, firstly to uncover the evolutionary background of plant-pathogen interactions and secondly to unravel the potential of wild non-model organisms and their contribution to possible resistance genes against the agriculturally important Septoria blotch disease. Short CV 2024 – present: PhD Student, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel 2023: Prize of the best plant science master thesis, awarded by the German Society for Plant Science 2021 – 2023: M. Sc. in Biology, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel. Thesis: “Comparative RNASeq analysis of the Aegilops cylindrica – Zymoseptoria tritici pathosystem in compatible and incompatible interactions” in the group of Prof. Dr. Eva Stukenbrock 2021: ZMB student Award of the CAU Kiel 2018 – 2021: B. Sc. in Biology, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel. Thesis: “Characterization of closely related grasses infected by the fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici“ in the group of Prof. Dr. Stukenbrock |