Italy PhD Student Position University of Turin
A Ph. D student position to work on plant-insect interactions is available at the University of Turin, Italy, Plant Physiology Unit, Centre of Excellence for Biosensing (Turin, Italy)
Title of the project: ?Multitrophic crosstalks among plants, bacteria, herbivores and the environment reveal complex system interactions?
Successful defense depends on the ability of the plant to recognize an attacking ?enemy? as early as possible. Early defense responses require enemy-initiated signaling cascades. Their activation ensures an induced response that is quantitative, timely and coordinated with other activities of the host cells. Damage-induced ion imbalances and modulations of channel activities are the first events occurring in the plasma membrane and result in rapid perturbations of the plasma membrane potential (Vm) involving variations of cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations. The model system will be represented by selected plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa (rice), Glycine max (Soybean) and Phaseolus lunatus (Lima bean), for which physiological and genomic informations are available in our labs, a pathogen (Pseudomonoas syringae) and an herbivore (Spodoptera littoralis), performed in a growth chamber that allows to experiment different environmental conditions (including increased C!
O2 and temperature). Electrophysiological studies and Confocal laser microscopy detection of Ca2+ and ROS will evaluate early responses, while genomic studies (Real-Time PCR, and gene microarray analyses) will show gene responses to biotic stresses in changing environmental conditions. Metabolomic studies will be performed by HPLC and GC-MS analyses of the main molecule involved.
Please contact Prof. Massimo Maffei before July 5th. E-mail: massimo.maffei@unito.it; Fax: +39011 2365967.
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