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Dr. Takayuki Shindo
Postdoc fellow (MPIZ)
Tel: +49 221 5062 256
E-mail: shindo[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Takayuki is from Japan. After his PhD on the role of Arabidopsis RD21 protease he stayed as a postdoc to establish a pipeline for identifying pathogen-derived inhibitors that target Arabidopsis enzymes using competitive ABPP.
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Dr. Farnusch Kaschani
Postdoc (DFG)
Tel: +49 221 5062 256/276
Email: kaschani[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Farnusch is a German/Iranian postdoc who has a background in organic chemistry did his PhD in plant biochemistry. He established in vivo labeling using click-chemistry, worked on Ser hydrolase profiling and is now studying the role of a protease inhibitior of Pseudomonas syringae. |
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Dr. Adriana Pruzinska
Postdoc (Humboldt)
Tel: +49 221 5062 256/276
Email: pruzinsk[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Adriana is from Slowakia and uses activity-based profiling to investigate proteolytic mechanisms during leaf senescence. |
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Christian Gu
PhD student (IMPRS)
Tel: +49 221 5062 256/276
Email: gu[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Christian is from Beijing, China and establishes and applies activity-based profiling with novel probes on extracts from Arabidopsis tissues infected with Pseudomonas syringae or Botrytis cinerea. The differential activities are further investigated through reverse genetic and chemetic approaches. |
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Johana Misas
PhD student (DAAD)
Tel: +49 221 5062 266/276
Email: misas[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Johana is from Bogota, Colombia and studies the role of the proteasome and vacuolar processing enzymes during infection with bacterial and oomycete pathogens. |
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Dr. Kerstin Richau
Postdoc (DFG-AFGN)
Tel: +49 221 5062 256/276
Email: richau[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Kerstin grew up in Germany and did her PhD in Amsterdam. As a postdoc in the Plant Chemetics lab she is identifying, confirming and characterizing 1001 targets of activity-based probes of Arabidopsis within the framework of the Arabidopsis Functional Genomics Network (AFGN). |
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Dr. Izabella Kolodziejek
Postdoctoral fellow (CGC)
Tel: +49 221 5062 266/276
Email: ikolo[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Izabella is a cell biologist from Warsaw, Poland. She is establishing activity-based imaging in plants using fluorescent activity-based probes and using click-chemistry on fixed tissues to investigate the subcellular localization of active enzymes in (pathogen-infected) plant tissues. |
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Dr. Tom Colby
Postdoc (DFG-AFGN)
Tel: +49 221 5062 235/226
Email: colby[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Tom Colby works in the MS group at the MPIZ institute. Within the framework of the Arabidopsis Functional Genomics Network (AFGN), he is identifying proteins that are labeled by activity-based probes and launching an open-source, searchable database for protein activities of Arabidopsis. |
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Sabrina Nickel
PhD student (DFG-AFGN)
Tel: +49 231 133 2964
Email: sabrina.nickel[a]cgc.mpg.de
Sabrina does her PhD in Chemical Biology in Dortmund and works at the CGC in Dortmund in the group of Dr. Markus Kaiser. She develops new and existing activity-based probes for the framework of the Arabidopsis Functional Genomics Network (AFGN). |
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Ilyas Muhammad
PhD student (DAAD)
Tel: +49 221 5062 266/276
Email: ilyas[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Ilyas is from Pakistan and investigates the role of tomato papain-like cysteine proteases in pathogen defence using reverse genetics and activity-based profiling. |
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Selva Kumari
PhD student (IMPRS)
Tel: +49 221 5062 256/276
Email: selva[a]mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Selva is from South India and investigates protease-inhibitor complexes at the plant-pathogen interface by crystallography in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Mariusz Jaskolski (Poznan, Poland). |
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Bikram Pandey
Master Student
Tel: +49 221 5062 256/276
Bikram is from Nepal and studies the sensitivity of Arabidopsis serine hydrolases for phosphonate-based herbicides. |
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Rohini Chawla
Master Student
Tel: +49 221 5062 256/276
Rohini is from India and investigates Pseudomonas-derived effectors for being inhibitors of plant enzymes.
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