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Technische Universität München

Muhammad Ilyas

Ilyas is a post-doctoral fellow working on wild tomato resistance to different pathogens (fungi, virus, bacteria and nematodes). He did his PhD at  the MPI in Cologne with Dr R van der Hoorn.

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Professional experience:

Nov 2017- to-date Post-doctoral fellow, Population Genetics,

Weihenstephan Campus, Technical University Munich Germany (http://www.popgen.wzw.tum.de/index.php?id=4)

May 2016- Oct 2017 Post-doctoral Researcher, INRES-Molecular Phytomedicine,

University of Bonn Germany (https://www.mpm.uni-bonn.de/)

Feb 2013- Jan 2016 Post-doctoral scientist (BMBF)

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne Germany (http://www.mpipz.mpg.de/13341/reiss)

Jul 2012- Dec 2012 Post-doctoral Researcher (Max Planck fellowship) Plant Chemetics Lab

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne Germany (http://www.plantchemetics.org/)

Oct 2007- June 2012 PhD student (DAAD fellowship) Plant Chemetics Lab

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne Germany (http://www.plantchemetics.org/)

Sep 2003 - March 2007 Assistant Research Officer (ARO)

Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad

Publications

  1. Mendy B, Wang´ombe MW, Radakovic ZS, Holbein J, Ilyas M, Chopra D, Holton N, Zipfel C, Grundler FMW, Siddique S: (2017) Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase NILR1 is required for induction of innate immunity to parasitic nematodes. PLoS Pathogens 2017, 13(4):e1006284. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006284
  2. Shindo, T., Kaschani, F., Yang, F., Kovacs, J., Tian, F., Kourelis, J., Hong, T. N., Colby, T., Shabab, M., Chawla, R., Kumari, S., Ilyas, M., Hoerger, A., Alfano, J. R., and Van der Hoorn, R. A. L. (2016) Screen of non-annotated small secreted proteins of Pseudomonas syringae reveals a virulence factor that inhibits tomato immune proteases. PLoS Pathog. 12, e1005874. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005874
  3. Ilyas, M., Hörger, A. C., Bozkurt, T. O., Van den Burg, H. A., Kaschani, F., Kaiser, M., Belhaj, K., Smoker, M., Joosten, M. H. A. J., Kamoun, S., and Van der Hoorn, R. A. L. (2015) Functional divergence of two secreted immune proteases of tomato. Current Biol. 25, 2300-2306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.030
  4. Ilyas, S., Ilyas, M., Van der Hoorn, R. A. L., and Mathur, S. (2013) Selective conjugation of proteins in mining the active proteome through click-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles. ACS Nano 7, 9655-9663. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn402382g

  5. Hörger A. C., Ilyas, M., Stephan, W., Tellier, A., Van der Hoorn, R. A.L and Laura E. Rose. (2012) Balancing selection at the tomato RCR3 gene family maintains variation in strength of pathogen defense. PloS Genetics 8, e1002813. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002813

  6. Lozano-Torres, J., Wilbers, Ruud H. P., Gawronski, P., Boshoven, J., van‘t Klooster, J. W., H., Baranowski, L., Ilyas, M., Van der Hoorn, R. A.L., Schots, A., de Wit, Pierre J. G. M., Bakker, J., Goverse, A., and Smant G., (2012) Dual Cf-2- mediated resistance in tomato requires a common virulence target of two plant pathogens. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 10119-10124. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202867109

  7. Bozkurt, T., Schornack, S., Win, J., Shindo, T., Ilyas, M., Oliva, R., Cano, L., Jones, A. M. E., Huitema, E., Van der Hoorn, R. A. L, and S. Kamoun, (2011) Phytophthora infestans effector AVRblb2 prevents focal secretion of a plant immune protease. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 20832-20837. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112708109

  8. Kaschani, F., Shabab, M., Bozkurt, T., Shindo, T., Schornack, S., Gu, C., Ilyas, M., Win, J., Kamoun, S., and Van der Hoorn, R. A. L. (2010) An effector-targeted protease contributes to defense against Phytophthora infestans and is under diversifying selection in natural hosts. Plant Physiol. 154, 1794-1804. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.110.158030

  9. Van der Hoorn, R. A. L., Gu, C., Ilyas, M., Kolodziejek, I., Kumari, S., Misas- Villamil, J. C., Pruzinska, A., Richau, K., Shabab, M., Shindo, T., Wang, Z. and Kaschani, F. (2010) Mining the active proteome in plant-pathogen interactions. In: Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Volume 7. H. Antound, T. Avis, L. Brisson, D. Prevost, and M. Trepanier, eds. International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, St. Paul, MN.

  10. Song, J., Win, J., Tian, M., Schornack, S., Kaschani, F., Ilyas, M., Van der Hoorn, R. A. L., and Kamoun, S. (2009) Apoplastic effectors secreted by two unrelated eukaryotic plant pathogens target the tomato defense protease RCR3. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 1654-1659. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809201106

  11. Ilyas, M., Naveed, M., Khan, T, M and Khan, I, A. (2007) Combining Ability Studies in Some Quantitative and Qualitative Traits of Gossypium hirsutum L. Journal of Agriculture & Social Sciences, 03-02-39-42.

  12. Naveed, M., Mukhtar, N., Farooq, J., Ilyas, M., and Islam, N, U. (2006) Evaluation of some new strains of Gossypium hirsutum L. for yield stability across environments. Journal of Agriculture & Social Sciences, 02-01-17-19.

  13. Mukhtar, N., Azhar, F, M., Naveed, M., and Ilyas, M. (2005) Effect of combining ability on Intra-hirsutum variation in seed cotton yield and its components. The Indus Cottons, Vol.2, No.3, 172-177.

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