I’m a plant evolutionary biologist interested in phytochemistry, hybridization/speciation and plant interactions.
I’m also Assistant Features Editor for The Plant Cell. Read my blog posts on The Plant Cell Extracts on Medium!
Research
Plant-pathogen interaction
I’m currently working on plant-fungal pathogen interaction. Botrytis cinerea (grey mold) is a generalist fungal pathogen with the ability to infect more than 400 plant species. By studying the interaction between this pathogen, different crop species and the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, we hope to understand the basis of its pathogenicity.