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Professor Gitta Coaker, John and Joan Fiddyment Endowed Chair in Agriculture, University of California, Davis, presents "Plant Immunity: Tandem Kinases and Pathogen Variation in Defense".
Professor Gitta Coaker is the John and Joan Fiddyment Endowed Chair in Agriculture at the University of California, Davis. She joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis in 2007. Dr. Coaker’s research program focuses on understanding kinase-mediated immune signaling and pathogen effector targets in both model and crop plants. Recent research investigates both immune receptor and pathogen variation. Her research also focuses on vascular pathogens, including vector-borne disease associated with Liberibacter species in tomato and potato. She was awarded the William H. Krauss Award for Research Excellence (2004), NSF Career Award (2011), Chancellor’s Fellow for Research Excellence (2013), Graduate Student Mentoring Award at the University of California, Davis (2020), and the Noel T. Keen Award for research excellence in Molecular Plant Pathology (2022).
Host: Dr. Christine Diepenbrock (chdiepenbrock@ucdavis.edu)