Subprojects

• A1
  Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kogel (JLU Gießen)
  RNA communication in mutualistic microbe-plant interactions: Molecular targets and biotechnological strategies for improved crop plant production

• A2
  Prof. Dr. Ralph Panstruga (RWTH Aachen University)
  Cross-kingdom RNA transfer in the barley-powdery mildew interaction
• A4
  Dr. Arne Weiberg (LMU Munich)
  The role of fungal Argonautes and other types of RNA-binding proteins in Botrytis-plant cross-kingdom RNAi
• B1
  Prof. Dr. Silke Robatzek (LMU Munich, Heisenberg Fellow)
  The role of bacterial extracellular RNAs in plant infections with Xylella
• B2
  Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr (Universität Hamburg)
  Extracellular RNAs in vascular wilt diseases
• B3
  Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf)
  Comparative analysis of cross kingdom RNA transfer in smut/plant pathosystems
• B4
  Prof. Dr. Albrecht Bindereif and Dr. Christian Preußer (JLU Giessen)
  Vesicle-mediated RNA transfer: from factors and mechanisms to functions
• C1
  Prof. Dr. Alexander Goesmann (JLU Giessen)
  Bioinformatic methods for the investigation of cross-kingdom RNA communication

Associated project

• Dr. Vera Göhre (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
  Cross-kingdom RNA communication during smut fungal infection by Thecaphora thlaspeos

Mentoring Program

• M1
  Dr. Alexandra C.U. Furch (Friedrich-Schiller-Univerität Jena)
  Fungal attacks – analysis of systemic phloem located reactions following symbiotic and pathogenic fungal infection
  
• M2
  Dr. Ena Šečić (JLU Giessen)
  Investigation of non-coding RNAs in plant-endophyte symbiosis
• M3
  Dr. Vera Göhre (Heinrich-Heine-Universität
 Düsseldorf) (AP)
  Cross-kingdom RNA communication during smut fungal infection byThecaphora thlaspeos