Jane E. Parker

Jane E. Parker
Born Jane Elizabeth Parker
1960
Great Britain
Nationality British
Occupation Botanist, plant immunity specialist
Spouse(s) George Coupland

Jane E. Parker is a British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants. She is listed on Thomson Reuter's list of the annual ISI Web of Knowledge most highly cited scientists for 2015.

Biography

Jane Elizabeth Parker was born in 1960 in Great Britain[1] and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Bradford in applied Biology in 1983. She went on to earn her PhD in 1986 from the University of Wales and then was awarded a post-doctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.[2] Throughout the 1990s, she worked at the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John lnnes Centre in the Norwich Research Park, at Norwich, England, but left in August 2001, with her husband, Dr. George Coupland to take up a post as an independent researcher at Cologne's Max Planck Institute.[3]

In 2002, Parker was awarded a Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize to continue her research into plant immune responses. She researches how plants defend themselves from disease-causing microorganisms. Her work involves isolating the genes which trigger innate defense mechanisms and combines genetics with molecular biology to evaluate how plants are able to avoid disease.[1] Her research has discovered that there are multiple layers of defense but that a protein, called EDS1, which combines with other proteins to form complexes, is the initial trigger. The immune response varies depending on whether the complex formed is developed from combining with the protein PAD4 or SAG101 to initiate the response to disease resistance.[4]

Since 2009, Parker has been an associate professor at the Institute of Genetics University of Cologne in Germany.[2] In 2013, she was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[5] She is widely published and has been listed on the annual ISI Web of Knowledge most highly cited scientists for 2015, as published by Thomson Reuters.[6]

Selected works

The following were noted as the five most important works by Parker, according to Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, a German scientific research organization group:[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2002 - Award Winners (K-R)" (in German). Bonn, Germany: Humboldt Foundation. 2002. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Jane Parker" (PDF). Halle, Germany: Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  3. ↑ John lnnes Centre 2001, p. 41.
  4. ↑ "Molecular snapshot of the plant immune system's signal box". Douglas, Isle Of Man, United Kingdom: Phys.org. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "List of Members: Prof. Dr. Jane Parker". Halle, Germany: Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Highly Cited Researchers 2015". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "Prof. Dr. Jane Parker". Düsseldorf, Germany: Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences. 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2015.

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