Mennat El Ghalid: How fungi recognize (and infect) plants
Mennat El Ghalid: Jak grzyb rozpoznaje i infekuje rośliny.
Mennat El Ghalid research aims to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying fungal biology and pathogenicity. Full bio
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counting nearly four billion trees,
by a fungal infection.
przez infekcję grzybową.
pathogens of plants,
niszczycielskimi patogenami roślin,
economic importance.
dla gospodarki upraw.
z infekcją grzybową wynoszą
with fungal infection
per year, worldwide?
to feed half a billion people.
żeby wykarmić pół miliarda ludzi.
in developing countries,
w krajach rozwijających się,
producentów i dystrybutorów,
for farmers and distributors,
truciznę wytwarzaną przez grzyby.
poison produced by fungi.
zapobiegania i leczenia
used to prevent and treat
exploiting natural sources of resistance,
naturalne źródła odporności,
treatment, among others,
to develop more efficient strategies
skuteczniejsze strategie,
żeby rozpoznać mechanizmy biologiczne,
to identify biological mechanisms
by novel antifungal treatments.
nowych leków przeciwgrzybowych.
że nie mogą się poruszać,
is that they cannot move
to form a sophisticated network,
the father of plant pathology,
twórca patologii roślin,
że grzyby kierują się sygnałami
that fungi are guided by signals
it can lodge and subsist,
jak latarnia morska dla grzybów,
of such signals
that then serves to elaborate strategy
between the fungus and the plant.
między grzybem a rośliną.
method at that moment
this mechanism at the molecular level.
mechanizmu na poziomie molekularnym.
genomic approaches,
oczyszczania DNA i badań mutacji,
of directed hyphal growth,
ukierunkowanego wzrostu strzępek,
that after 130 years,
130 lat później,
zidentyfikowaliśmy te sygnały roślinne,
could finally identify such plant signals
between a pathogenic fungus
między patogenicznym grzybem
the tomato plant.
którą jest pomidor.
odbierający te sygnały
receiving those signals
occurring within the fungus
toward the plant.
of such molecular processes
novel antifungal treatments.
nowych środków przeciwgrzybowych.
między grzybem a rośliną
the fungus and the plant
wysyłanych przez roślinę
which receives those signals.
które odbierają te sygnały.
agriculture crops.
is increasing significantly.
na rośliny uprawne wzrasta.
economic development,
rozwój gospodarczy,
of the molecular mechanism
a fungus and its host plant,
a rośliną żywicielską,
towards developing more efficient strategy
that affect people's lives,
które wpływają na ludzkie życie,
w żywność i na gospodarkę.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mennat El Ghalid - MycologistMennat El Ghalid research aims to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying fungal biology and pathogenicity.
Why you should listen
Mycologist Mennat El Ghalid received an Initial Training Networks - Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship to pursue her PhD project in the Molecular Genetics of Fungal Pathogenicity Unit and the International Campus of Excellence in Agrifood CeiA3 at the Universidad de Cordoba (Spain). During her PhD, her former team and herself identified the compounds secreted from the plant roots attracting Fusarium oxysporum, a soilborne plant pathogenic fungus and characterized the underlying mechanisms of attraction. Such compounds were tracked since the 19th century. The discovery was published in the Nature Journal.
El Ghalid became a TED Fellow in 2017 and have been selected as one of the 100 women honorees for OkayAfrica's 2018 #OKAY100Women list for her dedicated work and for being a promising talent within the field of STEM. She is currently working at Institut Pasteur (France) in the Biology and Pathogenicity Unit to study Candida albicans, an opportunistic pathogenic fungus and the main cause of fungal infections in immunocompromised humans.
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