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Dr Claudia Meisrimler

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Department: School of Biological Sciences

Email: claudia.meisrimler@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3691019

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Languages: English, German

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Fields of Research

  • Plant-microbe interactions
  • Plant abiotic stress
  • Climate change
  • Effector proteins
  • Transcription factors
  • Protein-protein interactions
  • Post-translational modification
  • Signal transduction pathways

Researcher Summary

I am a plant biology lecturer/ assistant professor at the School of Biological Sciences and associate investigator at the Biomolecular Interaction Centre (BIC), University of Canterbury, New Zealand, focussing on molecular plant biology and plant biochemistry, with a focus on plant-microbe interactions, abiotic stress adaptations and relevant signal-transduction pathways. I am particularly interested in how climate change effects plant-pathogen interactions and disease outbreaks.  

In my lab, we are mainly interested how pathogenic oomycetes and bacteria (soil- and air-born) interact with the plant. In order to successfully colonize their hosts and subvert immune responses, plant pathogens secrete molecules, so‐called effectors. In my group, we focus on translocated effector proteins and their target proteins in the host plant. Additionally, we are elucidating how abiotic factors effect plant health and immunity to improve future agricultural systems and ecosystem protection.
Projects range from applied to fundamental research topics, using a wide range of techniques:
• Confocal microscopy for live cell imaging (Localization, FRET-FLIM, Ca and ROS signalling)
• Dual-flow RootChips
• Phenotyping
• Co-Immunoprecipitation, Western blotting, EMSA
• Mass spectrometry
• Y2H
• DAPseq, RNAseq

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Biology: Molecular, Cellular and Whole Organism Biology: Biochemistry; Biomolecular Interactions; Cell Biology; Microbiology; Molecular Biology; Plant Physiology

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

(Displaying research/scholarly/creative work for last six years)
  • Allan C., Morris RJ. and Meisrimler CN. (2022) Encoding, transmission, decoding, and specificity of calcium signals in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 73(11): 3372-3385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac105. (Journal Articles)
  • Board AJ., Crowther JM., Acevedo-Fani A., Meisrimler CN., Jameson GB. and Dobson RCJ. (2022) How plants solubilise seed fats: revisiting oleosin structure and function to inform commercial applications. Biophysical Reviews 14(1): 257-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12551-021-00923-5. (Journal Articles)
  • Amoozadeh S., Johnston J. and Meisrimler CN. (2021) Exploiting structural modelling tools to explore host-translocated effector proteins. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22(23) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312962. (Journal Articles)
  • Meisrimler CN., Allan C., Eccersall S. and Morris RJ. (2021) Interior design: how plant pathogens optimize their living conditions. New Phytologist 229(5): 2514-2524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17024. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie I., Heinemann J., Garrill A., Lauren-Manuera N., Meisrimler C., Stott M. and Remus-Emsermann M. (2020) Teaching laboratory best practice considerations for Covid19. Research gate: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14923149.v2. (Chapters)
  • Neilen M. and van den Ackerveken G. (2020) Imaging Peronospora effusa effector-host protein interactions in planta.. http://dx.doi.org/10.33540/229. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • Pelgrom AJE., Meisrimler CN., Elberse J., Koorman T., Boxem M. and van den Ackerveken G. (2020) Host interactors of effector proteins of the lettuce downy mildew Bremia lactucae obtained by yeast two-hybrid screening. PLoS ONE 15(5) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226540. (Journal Articles)
  • Meisrimler CN., Pelgrom AJE., Oud B., Out S. and Van den Ackerveken G. (2019) Multiple downy mildew effectors target the stress-related NAC transcription factor LsNAC069 in lettuce. Plant Journal 99(6): 1098-1115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14383. (Journal Articles)
  • Pelgrom AJE., Eikelhof J., Elberse J., Meisrimler CN., Raedts R., Klein J. and Van den Ackerveken G. (2019) Recognition of lettuce downy mildew effector BLR38 in Lactuca serriola LS102 requires two unlinked loci. Molecular Plant Pathology 20(2): 240-253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12751. (Journal Articles)
  • Lüthje S., Meisrimler CN. and Hopff D. (2018) Proteomics of Micronutrient Deficiency and Toxicity. Plant Micronutrient Use Efficiency: Molecular and Genomic Perspectives in Crop Plants: 161-180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-812104-7.00010-1. (Chapters)
  • Balzergue C., Dartevelle T., Godon C., Laugier E., Meisrimler C., Teulon JM., Creff A., Bissler M., Brouchoud C. and Hagège A. (2017) Low phosphate activates STOP1-ALMT1 to rapidly inhibit root cell elongation. Nature Communications 8 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15300. (Journal Articles)
  • Meisrimler CN., Wienkoop S. and Lüthje S. (2017) Proteomic profiling of the microsomal root fraction: Discrimination of Pisum sativum L. cultivars and identification of putative root growth markers. Proteomes 5(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proteomes5010008. (Journal Articles)

Key Methodologies

  • Fluorescence microscopy
  • Molecular biology
  • Protein-protein/DNA/RNA interaction assays
  • Yeast-2-Hybrid
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Lab-on-a-chip
  • Posttranslational protein modifications
  • Network analysis
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