Subprojects

Subproject	Titel
A1	Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kogel (JLU Gießen)  Additional scientists: Dr. Ena Šečić, Dr. Maria José Ladera Carmona  RNA communication in mutualistic microbe-plant interactions: Molecular targets and biotechnological strategies for improved crop plant production
A2	Prof. Dr. Ralph Panstruga (RWTH Aachen University) Additional scientists: MSc. Hannah Thieron, MSc. Mansi Singh, MSc. Pietro Spanu Cross-kingdom RNA transfer in the barley-powdery mildew interaction
A4	Dr. Arne Weiberg (LMU Munich) The role of fungal Argonautes and other types of RNA-binding proteins in Botrytis-plant cross-kingdom RNAi
B1	Dr. Silke Robatzek (LMU Munich, Heisenberg Fellow) Additional scientists: MSc. Alessa Ruf The role of bacterial extracellular RNAs in plant infections with Xylella
B2	Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr (Universität Hamburg) Extracellular RNAs in vascular wilt diseases
B3	Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf) Comparative analysis of cross kingdom RNA transfer in smut/plant pathosystems
AP	Dr. Vera Göhre (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)  Cross-kingdom RNA communication during smut fungal infection byThecaphora thlaspeos
B4	Prof. Dr. Albrecht Bindereif and Dr. Christian Preußer (JLU Giessen) Vesicle-mediated RNA transfer: from factors and mechanisms to functions
C1	Prof. Dr. Alexander Goesmann (JLU Giessen) Bioinformatic methods for the investigation of cross-kingdom RNA communication
Mentoring Program
M1	Dr. Alexandra C.U. Furch (Friedrich-Schiller-Univerität Jena) Fungal attacks – analysis of systemic phloem located reactions following symbiotic and pathogenic fungal infection
M2	Dr. Ena Šečić (JLU Giessen) Investigation of non-coding RNAs in plant-endophyte symbiosis
M3	Dr. Vera Göhre (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) (AP)  Cross-kingdom RNA communication during smut fungal infection byThecaphora thlaspeos