Articles about Early Career Researchers
Eliza Loo is group leader in Wolf Frommer's group at HHU and studies the spatial colonization of the plant microbiota. Together with other researchers she discovered that the spatial distribution of a root’s excreted metabolites similarly pattern the microbial community along its length. She recently published her results in Cell Host & Microbe.
In Alga Zuccaro's group at UoC, Ernesto Llamas tries to identify the mechanism that renders plants immune to toxic protein aggregation. In a paper published in Nature Aging, Llamas described a chloroplast protein that shields plants from the harmful effects of polyQ proteins and could be used in the future as an unconventional therapy for polyQ diseases such as Huntington's disease.