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85764 München/Neuherberg,
Germany

Career and Education:

since 2009:

Head of Group

2007-2009:

Marie Curie/EMBO fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research,
Cologne, Germany (group of Dr. Jane E. Parker)

2003-2006:

Postdoc at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY, USA
(group of Dr. Daniel F. Klessig)

2003:

Dissertation (PhD) at Leiden University, The Netherlands

Subject:

Alfalfa mosaic virus negative strand RNA synthesis by transiently expressed replicases (plant virology)

1998-2003:

PhD student at Leiden University, The Netherlands
(group of Prof. Dr. John F. Bol)

1996-1997:

PhD student at the Institute for Animal Science and Health, Lelystad, The Netherlands
(subject: mammalian virology)

1992-1997:

Study of Biology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Publications:

Vlot AC, Dempsey DA, Klessig DF (2009) Salicylic acid, a multifaceted hormone to combat disease. Annu Rev Phytopathol 47: 177-206.

Park S-W, Liu P-P, Forouhar F, Vlot AC, Tong L, Tietjen K, Klessig DF (2009) Use of a synthetic salicylic acid analog to investigate the role of methylsalicylate and its esterases in plant disease resistance. J Biol Chem 284: 7307-7317.

Vlot AC, Liu P-P, Cameron RK, Park S-W, Yang Y, Kumar D, Zhou F, Padukkavidana T, Gustafsson C, Pichersky E, Klessig DF (2008) Identification of likely orthologs of tobacco salicylic acid-binding protein 2 and their role in systemic acquired resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J 56: 445-456.

Vlot AC, Klessig DF, Park S-W (2008) Systemic acquired resistance: the elusive signal(s). Curr Opin Plant Biol 11: 436-442.

Yang, Y, Xu R, Ma C-J, Vlot AC, Klessig DF, Pichersky E (2008) Inactive methyl indole-3-acetic acid ester can be hydrolyzed and activated by several esterases belonging to the AtMES esterase family of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 147: 1034-1045.

Van Gennip HGP, Vlot AC, Hulst MM, De Smit AJ, Moormann RJM (2004) Determinants of virulence of classical swine fever virus strain Brescia. J Virol 78: 8812-8823.

Vlot AC, Bol JF (2003) The 5’ untranslated region of alfalfa mosaic virus RNA 1 is involved in negative-strand RNA synthesis. J Virol 77: 11284-11289.

Vlot AC, Laros SM, Bol JF (2003) Coordinate replication of alfalfa mosaic virus RNAs 1 and 2 involves cis- and trans-acting functions of the encoded helicase-like and polymerase-like domains. J Virol 77: 10790-10798.

Vlot AC, Menard A, Bol JF (2002) Role of the alfalfa mosaic virus methyltransferase-like domain in negative-strand RNA synthesis. J Virol 76: 11321-11328.

Hulst MM, Van Gennip HGP, Vlot AC, Schooten E, De Smit AJ, Moormann RJM (2001) Interaction of classical swine fever virus with membrane-associated heparan sulfate: role for virus replication in vivo and virulence. J Virol 75: 9585-9595.

Vlot AC, Neeleman L, Linthorst HJM, Bol JF (2001) Role of the 3’-untranslated regions of alfalfa mosaic virus RNAs in the formation of a transiently expressed replicase in plants and in the assembly of virions. J Virol 75: 6440-6449.

Mijnes JDF, Vlot C, Buntjer JB, Van den Broek J, Horzinek MC, Rottier PJM, De Groot RJ (1999) Complementation of a gI-deficient feline herpesvirus recombinant by allotopic expression of truncated gI derivatives. J Gen Virol 80: 1799-1805.

Mijnes, JDF, Lutters, BCH, Vlot, AC, Horzinek, MC, Rottier PJM, De Groot, RJ (1998) The disulfide-bonded structure of feline herpesvirus glycoprotein I. J Virol 72: 7245-7254.

Mijnes JDF, Lutters BCH, Vlot AC, Van Anken E, Horzinek MC, Rottier PJM, De Groot RJ (1997) Structure-function analysis of the gE-gI complex of feline herpesvirus: Mapping of gI domains required for gE-gI interaction, intracellular transport, and cell-to-cell spread. J Virol 71: 8397-8404.