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Huijun Liu: What is the role of rhizobial glycans and ethylene in rhizobia-legume symbiosis?

PhD defence, Thursday 27 September 2018. Huijun Liu.

Huijun Liu

The symbiotic interaction between legume plants and soil bacteria, collectively referred to as rhizobia, leads to the formation of root nodules. Surface glycans of rhizobia and the phytohormone ethylene was shown to be involved and play important roles in root nodulation.

During her studies, Huijun Liu researched components involved in glycan perception and ethylene production during nodule development. The new research findings contribute to the understanding of the function of juxta-membrane helix of membrane-bound plant receptors in plant development and phytohormone regulation of the nodule infection and organogenesis pathways.   

The PhD degree was completed at the Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling (CARB), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG), Science and Technology, Aarhus University.

This résumé was prepared by the PhD student.

Time: Thursday 27 September 2018 at 13.00
Place: Building 1421, meeting room 2, Conference Center, Aarhus University, Frederik Nielsens Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C 
Title of PhD thesis: Rhizobial glycan responses and ethylene production in Lotus japonicus
Contact information: Huijun Liu, e-mail: huijunliu@mbg.au.dk tel.: +45 50126082

Members of the assessment committee:
Associate Professor Anja Theo Fuglsang, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Research Director Pascal Ratet, Institute of Plant Sciences, Universite Paris-Saclay, France.
Associate Professor Søren Borg, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Main supervisor:
Professor Jens Stougaard, Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling (CARB), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG), Aarhus University
Co-supervisor:
Assistant Professor Simon Kelly, Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling (CARB), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG), Aarhus University
Assistant Professor Yasuyuki Kawaharada, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University

Language: The PhD thesis will be defended in English
The defence is public.

The dissertation is available for reading at the Graduate School of Science and Technology/GSST, Ny Munkegade 120, building 1520, rooms 128-134, 8000 Aarhus C.