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Dr. Kirsti Sørhagen

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Dr. Kirsti Sørhagen


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Position Postdoctoral fellow
Nationality Norwegian
Postdoctoral project Peroxisome-mediated mechanisms of plant innate immunity
Plants have a well-developed innate immune system, which means that in most cases, plants are able to fight off pathogen attacks. Still, every year there are huge crop losses caused by plant disease, making research into how the plant immune system functions important. Quite recently, peroxisomes have been found to play a role in plant immunity. Many potential defence proteins are predicted to be localized to this organelle. We are looking at diverse defence proteins that localize to peroxisome and try to determine their function related to disease resistance.
Funding Research Council of Norway 
Publications Sørhagen, K., Laxa, M., Peterhänsel, C., and Reumann S The emerging role of photorespiration and non-photorespiratory peroxisomal metabolism in pathogen defence. Plant Biol 15:723-736
Hong JK, Yun B-W, Kang J-G, Raja MU, Kwon E, Sorhagen K, Chu C, Wang Y and Loake GJ. (2008) Nitric oxide function and signalling in plant disease resistance. Journal of Experimental Botany 59:147-54
Education
2012-present Postdoctoral fellow in plant peroxisome research (University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway); Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Reumann
2006-2011
 PhD in Molecular Plant Pathology (University of Edinburgh, UK). Project title: “Unravelling the roles of S-nitrosothiols in plant biology”; supervisor: Prof. Gary J. Loake
2002-2006
 Honours degree in Biological Sciences (Heriott-Watt University, UK)
     
Research interests Plant immunity, cell signalling, protein localization and function
Research expertise Plant pathology, molecular biology, genetics
Contact Dr. Kirsti Sørhagen
Centre for Organelle Research (CORE)
University of Stavanger
Richard Johnsonsgate 4
N-4021 Stavanger, Norway
Phone: +47-51831812 (Office), +47-51831817 (Laboratory)
Email: kirsti.sorhagen[at]uis.no
Homepage: core.uis.no; www.ux.uis.no/reumann