Core funding to the Dangl Lab is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Our core funding supports all the projects detailed below. In addition, it allows us to investigate how plant microbiomes are organized in the presence of a sophisticated immune system. We are also funded by grants from the NSF, NIH and DOE. Our ultimate goal is to use plant and microbial genetics and genomics to determine the underlying factors that determine specific community associations with plant roots. The Dangl Lab is focused on three main topic areas that aim to answer the following long term questions: <\/p>\n
– What is the mechanism of intracellular NLR receptor activation and how do these proteins function to anchor the plant immune system?<\/p>\n
– What is the diversity of pathogen virulence factors (effectors), and does effector diversity collapse onto limited, key host targets?<\/p>\n
– How does the plant communicate with growth promoting microbes and differentiate these from pathogens in complex plant-associated microbial communities?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":645,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[37],"faculty-mentorship-training":[],"class_list":["post-9255","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-faculty","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n