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Niko Geldner, Professor, presents "Mechanisms driving the spatial structure of root bacterial colonisation".
Niko Geldner studied biology at the Universities of Mainz, Bordeaux and Tübingen. In Tübingen, he did his diploma thesis and Ph.D. thesis in the lab of Ger Jürgens, working on the role of GNOM in Arabidopsis embryogenesis and the polar localization of the PIN1 auxin efflux carrier. He left Tübingen in 2004 to do a Postdoc as an EMBO and HFSP fellow at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, in the lab of Joanne Chory. At the Salk, he worked on the endosomal trafficking of the plant steroid receptor kinase BR1 and developed the WAVE set of sub-cellular compartment markers. In 2007, he started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne, where he worked on the genetics, cell biology and physiology of root diffusion barriers and where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and Full Professor in 2018. He was awarded Starting and Consolidator grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2007 and 2013. In 2021, he received an ERC Advanced grant to work on the elucidation of root-bacteria interaction at high spatial resolution. Niko Geldner has been an EMBO member since 2017 and was elected AAAS Fellow in 2021.
Host: Dr. Siobhan Brady (sbrady@ucdavis.edu)