Christine Faulkner

I'm a project leader at the John Innes Centre (UK) where my lab studies the regulation of plasmodesmata and cell-to-cell communication during plant defence. I did my PhD at the University of Sydney (Australia) on plasmodesmal proteomics and continued to study plasmodesmata in a variety of contexts during postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh (UK), the John Innes Centre (UK) and the Sainsbury Laboratory (UK). I started my independent research programme at Oxford Brookes University (UK) in 2012 on plasmodesmal responses to pathogens, and I continue this research at the JIC. My lab employs cell and molecular biology approaches in determining how plant cells control symplastic communication during immunity, and how pathogens exploit the plant symplast to enhance infection.