Dr María Florencia (Flor) Bogino
- Research Associate
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- Sainsbury Laboratory
- Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1LR
About
The natural sciences have fascinated me for as long as I can remember. However, during the first years of my biology degree, I discovered how amazing plants are. Throughout evolution, they have developed an extraordinary array of biochemical reactions and signalling networks that allow them to survive in a changing environment despite being unable to “run away” from it. In particular, I am interested in how plants defend themselves against stressful situations, for example when they are attacked by pathogenic microbes.
Research
Research interests
- Effectors
- Oomycetes
- Plant immunity
- Cell biology
- Endomembrane trafficking
I recently joined the Schornack group as a postdoctoral researcher, with the aim of better understanding how plant pathogens manipulate the plant’s secretion of defence components to facilitate successful infection. To address this, I use a broad range of microscopy and biochemical approaches.
I completed my undergraduate and doctoral studies at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. In my undergraduate thesis, I studied the effects of allantoin accumulation during oxidative stress in plants. During my PhD, I focused on effector proteins from the filamentous plant pathogens Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis and Golovinomyces orontii, and their impact on plant development and immunity.