Casandra started her scientific career as a food scientist at McGill University in Canada and Universidad Las Américas Puebla in Mexico, where she graduated in 2009. Afterwards, she decided to broaden her field of experience by studying a Master in Agrobiotechnology at the University of Gießen, Germany. During this time, she focused her research on the interaction between the human pathogen Salmonella typhimurium and plants under the supervision of Dr. Adam Schikora. In 2012, she received a fellowship from the Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) to obtain her doctorate degree at the same university. Her project consisted in the study of N-acyl homoserine lactones produced by rhizobacteria to induce defense in different crop plants. In Freiburg, Casandra engineers a synthetic signalling pathway to control microbial associations in roots. Her project is funded by the Cluster of Excellence CIBSS.
PUBLICATIONS
Su C, Rodriguez-Franco M, Lace B, Nebel N, Hernandez-Reyes C, Liang P, Schulze E, Mymrikov EV, Gross NM, Knerr J, Wang H, Siukstaite L, Keller J, Libourel C, Fischer AAM, Gabor KE, Mark E, Popp C, Hunte C, Weber W, Wendler P, Stanislas T, Delaux PM, Einsle O, Grosse R, Römer W, Ott T (2023)
Stabilization of membrane topologies by proteinaceous remorin scaffolds
Nature Communications; 14:323 (open access)
Hernández-Reyes C, Lichtenberg E, Keller J, Delaux PM, Ott T, Schenk ST (2021). NIN-Like Proteins; interesting Players in Rhizobia-Induced Nitrate Signaling Response during Interaction with Non-Legume Host Arabidopsis thaliana.
Molecular Plant-Mircrobe Interactions; 35(3): 230-243
pre-print deposited at: bioRxiv; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.08.287219 (open access)
Abel NB*, Buschle CA*, Hernandez-Ryes C*, Burkart SS, Deroubaix AF, Mergner J, Gronnier J, Jarsch IK, Folgmann J, Braun KH, Bayer E, Germain V, Derbyshire P, Menke FLH, Kemmerling B, Zipfel C, Küster B, Mongrand S, Marín M, Ott T (2021). A hetero-oligomeric remorin-receptor complex regulates plant development
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.28.428596v1
Su C, Klein ML, Hernandez-Reyes C, Batzenschlager M, Ditengou FA, Lace B, Keller J, Delaux PM, Ott T (2020)
The Medicago truncatula DREPP protein triggers microtubule fragmentation in membrane nanodomains during symbiotic infections
Plant Cell; 32 (5): 1357-1358 (open access)
pre-print deposited at: bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/794008
Neumann C, Fraiture M, Hernández-Reyes C, Akum FN, Virlogeux-Payant I, Chen Y, Pateyron S, Colcombet J, Kogel K-H, Hirt H, Brunner F and Schikora A (2014). The Salmonella effector protein SpvC, a phosphothreonine lyase is functional in plant cells.
Front. Microbiol. 5:548
Hernández-Reyes C, Schenk ST, Neumann C, Kogel KH and Schikora A (2014). N-acyl-homoserine lactones-producing bacteria protect plants against plant and human pathogens.
Microbial biotechnology, 7 (6): 580-588.
Schenk ST, Hernández-Reyes C, Samans B, Stein E, Neumann C, Schikora M, Reichelt M, Mithöfer A, Becker A, Kogel KH and Schikora A (2014). N-Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Primes Plants for Cell Wall Reinforcement and Induces Resistance via the Salicylic Acid/Oxylipin Pathway.
The Plant Cell, 26: 2708–23
Hernández-Reyes S and Schikora A (2013). Salmonella, a cross-kingdom pathogen infecting humans and plants.
FEMS Microbiology Letters, 343 (1): 1-7