Chhana Ullah

Junior Professor of Forest Phytopathobiomes, University of Göttingen, Germany 🇩🇪

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

Explore plant interactions forests from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.

Submit your abstract for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions by 20 May!

📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland

https://t.co/fkLCQECbNP

[Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana]

There is an open PhD position on Tree-Microbe Interactions in my Lab at the University of Göttingen. Please circulate the advertisement.

Application deadline: 07 Sep 2025
https://t.co/6YaqQVKFBV

[Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana]

Complete steps of salicylic acid biosynthesis via the PAL pathway!

https://t.co/HFVd2PHt3p

[Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana]

Complete steps of salicylic acid biosynthesis via the PAL pathway!
https://t.co/GSXsrSmSch

[Soichiro Asuke @AsukeSoichiro]

Reunited with @ullah_chhana after 8 years! #TSLSummerschool #ISMPMI2025 @TheSainsburyLab

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September ↓

[Molecular Plant Pathology @MPPjournal]

The phenylalanine ammonia-lyase inhibitor AIP induces rice defence against the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola: https://t.co/wvNDlCKNxs

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

Strigolactones antagonize rice chemical defense against the leaf blast fungus

Lahari et al. @ullah_chhana @MPI_CE

📖 https://t.co/jzZLUCRXmC

[Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana]

@berasymbionts @ALIFE_VU @VUamsterdam Thanks. I am doing well.

[Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana]

@AsukeSoichiro Nice to see you my friend. Enjoy your stay.

[Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana]

The diversity of SA biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants. @MPI_CE

[CJ Tsai @TsaiLabUGA]

Our review on the diversity of SA biosynthesis & signaling is out. @ullah_chhana @YenHoChen @MariaAOrtegaP "Perhaps the most underappreciated fact is that all three biosynthetic genes in this [ICS] pathway are only found in the Brassicaceae family" https://t.co/dtGB1PD4mX

[Harro Bouwmeester @HarroBouwmeest1]

Are you looking for a postdoc position to work in my rhizosphere signalling team on the role of strigolactones in the interaction of maize with #parasiticplant Striga and beneficial microbes, apply here: https://t.co/tcMONtb8Vk

[CJ Tsai @TsaiLabUGA]

Now out in @NewPhyt, deciphering floral traits of trees in weeks and months rather than years!! @MariaAOrtegaP @RanRichard @UGAWarnell @uga_plantbio @uga_genetics @PlantCenterUGA @ga_res_alliance @UGAResearch https://t.co/HONvCnor4P

[Max Planck Society @maxplanckpress]

#NobelPrize for Svante Pääbo! 👏 The director @MPI_EVA_Leipzig in Leipzig is honoured for his pioneering work in the field of #palaeogenetics, of which he is considered the founder. https://t.co/8TZsMhJUag @NobelPrize

[Yuko Ulrich @YukoUlrich]

We're looking for a postdoc to work on infection dynamics in clonal raider ants at @MPI_CE, in collaboration with the group of Robert Paxton at Uni. Halle. Funded by @iDiv. Join us!!!
Ad: https://t.co/aAEvEvl5Hf.
Pic by A. Schroll.

[Pingtao Ding (he/him) @sardineboy_DING]

Finally full-length structure of NPR1 (Phytohormone SA receptor) has been resolved, also together w/ TGA transcription factor complex in cryo-EM. Nice work from Pei Zhou’s group and ⁦@xdong23⁩ lab #mustread #MPMI https://t.co/5EnbBheda5

[Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana]

@khallaf13 @MPI_CE @NewPhyt Thank you @khallaf13

[Alistair Hetherington @NP_EiC]

Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana and colleagues at @MPI_CE have uncovered an interesting interplay between salicylic acid and jasmonic acid, showing that they can in fact boost each other in defence against pathogenic fungi in poplars: https://t.co/FmrRBWLuBh

[Chhana Ullah @ullah_chhana]

@MPI_CE @UniKonstanz @YukoUlrich Congratulations.