Dr. Elisa Korenblum is the Principal Investigator of the Rhizosphere Biology and Chemistry Lab. She received her MSc and PhD degrees in Microbiology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her postdoctoral studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, focused on microbial interactions in soil and the rhizosphere. At the Weizmann, she discovered that plant chemical diversity can be influenced by root-microbial interactions, leading to systemic root secretion of metabolites. She termed this process “SIREM,” standing for “Systemic Induced Root Exudation of Metabolites.”
