The Plant and Microbial Biology Department at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a Postdoctoral Employee in the Jennifer Lewis Lab, in the area of Plant-Microbe Interactions. The Lewis lab studies how pathogens manipulate host immune signaling and how plants defend themselves against infection. Pseudomonas syringae is a bacterial pathogen that causes disease in a wide range of plant hosts, by injecting type III effector proteins through the type III secretion system. Effector proteins primarily suppress plant immunity to facilitate infection. However, plants can evolve the ability to recognize effector proteins and trigger an immune response. Recently, we found that a strain of P. syringae lacking effecto