To rot, or not to rot: comprehensive view on the interactions of phytopathogenic pectobacteria with plants

Speaker: dr Vladimir Y. Gorshkov (Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics)

Talk: To rot, or not to rot: comprehensive view on the interactions of phytopathogenic pectobacteria with plants

Time: 9th March 2018, 9:00 am

Venue: Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Abrahama 58, hall 042

Dr. Vladimir Y. Gorshkov is a Senior Researcher at Federal Research Center: Kazan Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Science in Kazan, and a Senior Lecturer at Kazan Federal University, Russia. His main research interests are connected wiht phytopathology, plant physiology, microbiology and molecular biology. Vladimir defended his Phd thesis entitled “Cell-to-cell communication in the populations of Pectobacterium atrosepticum SCRI1043 during the interaction with host plant and under starvation” in 2009 and since then his major scientific interest is signal exchange between bacteria and host plants during interaction. Vladimir is an expert in molecular aspects of symbiosis and pathogenesis and at the moment serves as a Phd student supervisor of 3 PhD students. He is an author and co-author of more than 20 original research papers. His beloved bug is Pectobacterium atrosepticum and bellowed host plant: potato and tobacco.