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Hi! My name is Mariana Schuster and I am a Postdoc at the Department of Plant Sciences of the University of Oxford.
I was born in Colombia, in a family of German descent, and finished studies in Biology and Botany both in Colombia and Germany. I received a PhD in plant-pathogen interactions from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany.
During my PhD, I established the CRISPR-Cas9 system in the fungal pathogen U. maydis and used it for the study of effector gene families. In Oxford, in the Plant Chemetics lab, I currently investigate the role of cysteine proteases in immunity.
I am also an ASPB ambassador, love outreach and fight plant (and fungal) blindness every time I can!
Let’s connect on twitter! Mariana Schuster (@MariSchuster) / Twitter