
EMBO Member
Heribert Hirt
EMBO 2008
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Phosphorylation-dependent signal transduction
I am interested in the mechanisms how environmental signals (drought, heat, microbial, etc.) are sensed and processed. A major recent focus is how stress signaling reprograms gene expression at the chromatin level.
Keywords
Signal transduction / phosphorylation / abiotic stress / plant-microbe interaction