Prof. Dr. Marcel Wiermer

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPlant Biochemistry and Biophysics,Organismic Interactions, Chemical Ecology and Microbiomes of Plant Systems,Cell Biology
Keywordsmolecular plant-microbe interactions, plant innate immunity, ucleocytoplasmic signaling

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin
InstitutionFreie Universität Berlin
InstituteInstitut für Biologie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Brian Edward EllisMichael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Prof. Dr. Xin LiMichael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2006

Programme(s)

2006Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2010Zhaohai Zhu, Fang Xu, Yaxi Zhang, Yu Ti Cheng, Marcel Wiermer, Xin Li, Yuelin Zhang: Arabidopsis resistance protein SNC1 activates immune responses through association with a transcriptional corepressor. In: PNAS, 2010, 13960-13965
2010Ana V. García, Servane Blanvillain-Baufumé, Robin P. Huibers, Marcel Wiermer, Guangyong Li, Enrico Gobbato, Steffen Rietz, Jane E. Parker: Balanced nuclear and cytoplasmic activities of EDS1 are required for a complete plant innate immune response. In: PLoS Pathogens, 2010, e1000970
2010Marcel Wiermer, Hugo Germain, Yu Ti Cheng, Ana V. García, Jane E. Parker, Xin Li : Nucleoporin MOS7/Nup88 contributes to Plant Immunity and Nuclear Accumulation of Defense Regulators. In: Nucleus, 2010, 332-336
2009Yu Ti Cheng, Hugo Germain, Marcel Wiermer, Dongling Bi, Fang Xu, Ana V. García, Lennart Wirthmueller, Charles Després, Jane E. Parker, Yuelin Zhang, Xin Li: Nuclear Pore Complex Component MOS7/Nup88 Is Required for Innate Immunity and Nuclear Accumulation of Defense Regulators in Arabidopsis. In: Plant Cell, 2009, 2503-2515
2008Kristoffer Palma, Marcel Wiermer and Xin Li: Marshalling the troops: intracellular dynamics in plant pathogen defense. In: Jane Parker, Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 34: Molecular Aspects of Plant Disease Resistance. . Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. 177-219
2007Marcel Wiermer, Kristoffer Palma, Yuelin Zhang and Xin Li: Should I stay or should I go? Nucleocytoplasmic trafficking in plant innate immunity. In: Cellular Microbiology, 2007, 1880-1890