Dr Christine Faulkner
Project Leader
Crop Genetics
Research in the Faulkner lab focuses on how cell-to-cell communication regulates plant responses to an attack from a pathogen.
The lab uses cell and molecular biology approaches to specifically investigate how the intercellular channels that connect neighbouring cells, called plasmodesmata, open and close to control the exchange of materials between cells during immune responses.
The lab focuses on the following questions:
- How do plasmodesmata open and close?
- Why do cells communicate during defence?
- Do pathogens try to control plasmodesmata?
Contact
christine.faulkner@jic.ac.ukViral probe gives ringside view of cell-to-cell combat
read moreDr Christine Faulkner awarded Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council
read moreFive new Project Leaders join the John Innes Centre
read moreRecent Publications
A virus-targeted plant receptor-like kinase promotes cell-to-cell spread of RNAi.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Publisher’s version: 10.1073/pnas.1715556115
Plasmodesmal regulation during plant–pathogen interactions
New Phytologist Volume 2017, issue 1 ppages 62-67
Publisher’s version: 10.1111/nph.14857
An automated quantitative image analysis tool for the identification of microtubule patterns in plants.
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) 11 p109-117
Publisher’s version: 10.1111/tra.12505
A calmodulin-like protein regulates plasmodesmal closure during bacterial immune responses.
New Phytologist tbd ptbd
Publisher’s version: 10.1111/nph.14599
Isolation of Plasmodesmata.
Publisher’s version: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6533-5_15
Christine Faulkner
- Cecilia Marie Michel Cheval Postdoctoral Scientist
- Dr Diana Papp Postdoctoral Scientist
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