Burkhard manages the Informatics Platform.
His expertise covers;
- Plant Genomics
- Sequence Analysis
- Rna-Seq
- Data management
- Database development
- Teaching
Burkhard studied bioinformatics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He then joined the IPK in Gatersleben where he also received a PhD in 2012 for his contribution to the barley genome project. Subsequently, he moved to Norwich where he spent his postdoc using genomic tools to facilitate improvement of plant disease resistance.
He has contributed to several plant genome projects and developed pipelines for rapid gene discovery, especially in context of disease resistance. His tools were pivotal for the identification of numerous novel genes.
Selected Publications
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Steuernagel B,Witek K,Krattinger SG,Ramirez-Gonzalez RH,Schoonbeek HJ,Yu G,Baggs E,Witek A,Yadav I,Krasileva KV,Jones JD,Uauy C,Keller B,Ridout CJ,Wulff BB (2020)The NLR-Annotator tool enables annotation of the intracellular immune receptor repertoire.Plant PhysiologyPublisher's version: 0032-0889
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Arora S., Steuernagel B., Gaurav K., Chandramohan S., Long Y., Matny O., Johnson R., Enk J., Periyannan S., Singh N., Asyraf Md Hatta M., Athiyannan N., Cheema J., Yu G., Kangara N., Ghosh S., Szabo L. J., Poland J., Bariana H., Jones J. D. G., Bentley A. R., Ayliffe M., Olson E., Xu S. S., Steffenson B. J., Lagudah E., Wulff B. B. H. (2019)Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics.Nature Biotechnology (37)Publisher's version: 1087-0156
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Steuernagel B., Periyannan S. K., Hernández-Pinzón I., Witek K., Rouse M. N., Yu G., Hatta A., Ayliffe M., Bariana H., Jones J. D., Lagudah E. S., Wulff B. B. (2016)Rapid cloning of disease-resistance genes in plants using mutagenesis and sequence capture.Nature Biotechnology (34)Publisher's version: 1087-0156