Dr. Thomas Spallek

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsOrganismic Interactions, Chemical Ecology and Microbiomes of Plant Systems,Plant Genetics and Genomics
Keywordsparasitic plants, plant disease, cell biology, Striga, molecular biology

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityGöttingen
InstitutionGeorg-August-Universität Göttingen
InstituteAlbrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ken ShirasuPlant Immunology Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama City
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2012

Programme(s)

2012Research Fellowship Programme from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Publications (partial selection)

2018Thomas Spallek, Pamela Gan, Yasuhiro Kadota, Ken Shirasu: Same tune, different song — cytokinins as virulence factors in plant–pathogen interactions?. In: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2018, 82-87
2017Thomas Spallek,Charles W. Melnyk, Takanori Wakatake, Jing Zhang, Yuki Sakamoto, Takatoshi Kiba, Satoko Yoshida, Sachihiro Matsunaga, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Ken Shirasu: Interspecies hormonal control of host root morphology by parasitic plants. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 5283-5288
2013Thomas Spallek, Martina Beck, Sara Ben Khaled, Susanne Salomon, Gildas Bourdais, Swen Schellmann, Silke Robatzek: ESCRT-I Mediates FLS2 Endosomal Sorting and Plant Immunity.. In: PLoS Genetics, 2013, e1004035.
2013Thomas Spallek, J Musembi Mutuku, Ken Shirasu: The genus Striga: A witch profile.. In: Molecular Plant Pathology, 2013, 861-869
2012Ji Zhou, Thomas Spallek, Christine Faulkner, Silke Robatzek: CalloseMeasurer: a novel software solution to measure callose deposition and recognise spreading callose patterns.. In: Plant Methods, 2012,
2012Yi-Ju Lu, Sebastian Schornack, Thomas Spallek, Niko Geldner, Joanne Chory, Swen Schellmann, Karin Schumacher, Sophien Kamoun, Silke Robatzek: Patterns of plant subcellular responses to successful oomycete infections reveal differences in host cell reprogramming and endocytic trafficking.. In: Cellular Microbiology, 2012, 682-697