Manisha Haag (she/her)

PhD student

Department 1 (Prof. Gutjahr): Root Biology and Symbiosis
Root Biology and Mycorrhiza
PhD

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PhD Student in the Gutjahr lab studying cross-kingdom RNA interference in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis

Master of Science in Biology at Freie Universität Berlin/ SALK Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, USA

M.Sc. Thesis, Salk Institute, supervised by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Busch

"A single-cell approach to understanding periderm development in Arabidopsis thaliana"

Bachelor of Science in Biology at Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf

B.Sc. Thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly

"In vitro characterization of a plant fucosyltransferase"

Internships

Sept 2021-Dec 2021

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, USA

Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, Supervision by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Busch

Sept 2018-Nov 2018

CSRI - National Institute Of Oceanography, Goa, India

Department of Chemical Oceanography, Supervision by Dr. Narsinh Thakur

Publications

Usländer A*, Haag MV*, Cheng A-P*, Lederer B, Khoo JY, Dunker F, Acosta IF, Weiberg A, Gutjahr C (2026). Cross-kingdom RNA interference promotes arbuscular mycorrhiza development. Nature Plants *these authors contribued equally
Charlotte N. Miller, Sean Jarrell-Hurtado, Manisha V. Haag, Y. Sara Ye, Mathew Simenc, Paloma Alvarez-Maldonado, Sara Behnami, Ling Zhang, Joseph Swift, Ashot Papikian, Jingting Yu, Kelly Colt, Joseph R. Ecker, Todd P. Michael, Julie A. Law, Wolfgang Busch, A single-nuclei transcriptome census of the Arabidopsis maturing root identifies that MYB67 controls phellem cell maturation (2025) Developmental Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2024.12.025.