Mennat El Ghalid: How fungi recognize (and infect) plants
Меннат Эль Галид: Как грибок находит и инфицирует растения
Mennat El Ghalid research aims to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying fungal biology and pathogenicity. Full bio
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[Роберт Фрост, 1936 г.]
counting nearly four billion trees,
почти в четыре миллиарда деревьев
by a fungal infection.
грибковой инфекцией.
pathogens of plants,
разрушительными патогенами растений,
economic importance.
with fungal infection
из-за грибковой инфекции,
per year, worldwide?
в год по всему миру?
to feed half a billion people.
чтобы накормить полмиллиарда людей.
in developing countries,
в развивающихся странах,
for farmers and distributors,
для фермеров и дистрибьюторов,
poison produced by fungi.
яда, вырабатываемого грибами.
used to prevent and treat
для предотвращения и лечения
exploiting natural sources of resistance,
для повышения естественного иммунитета,
treatment, among others,
to develop more efficient strategies
более эффективные стратегии,
to identify biological mechanisms
чтобы выявить биологические механизмы,
by novel antifungal treatments.
на новые противогрибковые препараты.
is that they cannot move
что они не могут двигаться,
to form a sophisticated network,
создавая сложную сеть —
the father of plant pathology,
отец патологии растений,
that fungi are guided by signals
что грибы руководствуются сигналами,
it can lodge and subsist,
можно поселиться и существовать.
разрастись, достигнуть
и колонизировать растение.
of such signals
that then serves to elaborate strategy
послужат для разработки стратегии
between the fungus and the plant.
между грибками и растением.
method at that moment
метода на тот момент
this mechanism at the molecular level.
этот механизм на молекулярном уровне.
genomic approaches,
и геномных мутаций,
of directed hyphal growth,
направленный рост гиф,
that after 130 years,
could finally identify such plant signals
идентифицировать такие сигналы
between a pathogenic fungus
между патогенным грибом,
the tomato plant.
receiving those signals
получающий эти сигналы,
occurring within the fungus
происходящей в грибке
toward the plant.
росту в сторону растения.
of such molecular processes
novel antifungal treatments.
создания новых противогрибковых средств.
the fungus and the plant
which receives those signals.
agriculture crops.
сельскохозяйственные культуры.
is increasing significantly.
значительно возрастает.
economic development,
экономическим развитием,
и спросом на биотопливо.
of the molecular mechanism
a fungus and its host plant,
грибком и его растением-хозяином,
towards developing more efficient strategy
в разработке более эффективной стратегии
заболеваниями растений
that affect people's lives,
которые влияют на жизнь людей,
и экономический рост.
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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