Management
Prof. Dr. Ute Armbruster

Research and teaching focus

• Plant physiology
• Green molecular biology
• Protein biochemistry
• Regulation of photosynthesis
• Molecular chaperones

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Management
Prof. Dr. Petra Bauer

Research and teaching focus

• Iron nutrition physiology
• Cellular mechanisms, regulatory networks and protein interactions
• Nutritional food security and iron biofortification
• Ecology and sustainable agriculture
• Science communication

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Management
Prof. Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh

Research and teaching focus

• Photosynthesis
• Microbial growth and regulation of metabolism
• Ecosystems theory
• Time-series analysis
• Polymer biochemistry

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Management
Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer

Research and teaching focus

• Molecular physiology
• Transport proteins
• Plasmodesmata
• Plant Pathogen interactions
• Genome editing

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Management
Prof. Dr. Guido Grossmann

Research and teaching focus

• Cell polarity
• Intra- and intercellular signal transduction
• Plant-microbe interactions
• Microfluidics
• Advanced light microscopy

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Management
Prof. Dr. Georg Groth

Research and teaching focus

• Sustainable use of plant resources
• Resilience to stress
• Plant signal transduction
• Molecular structure elucidation of plant proteins
• Modulators of protein-protein networks

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Management
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elena Hamann

Research and teaching focus

• evolutionary ecology
• rapid adaptation
• phenotypic plasticity
• plant-herbivore interactions
• population genetics and genomics

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Management
apl. Prof. Dr. Peter Jahns

Research and teaching focus

• Photosynthesis
• Stress Physiology
• Light stress and photoprotective mechanisms
• Plant Physiology
• Plant Biochemistry

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Management
Prof. Dr. Maria von Korff Schmising

Research and teaching focus

• Quantitative genetics and genomics of plants
• Evolution and domestication
• Development and stress adaptation in crop plants (barley)
• Ecological plant genetics
• Molecular biology

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Management
Prof. Dr. Martin Lercher

Research and teaching focus

• computational models of metabolism and cellular growth
• computational models of plant growth
• AI predictions of protein-small molecule interactions
• evolutionary genomics
• the creative side of the scientific process

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Management
Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly

Research and teaching focus

• Plant cell wall polymers
• Synthetic biology of biocomposites
• Glycobiotechnology
• Cell- and molecular biology
• Plant Physiology

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Management
Prof. Dr. Laura Rose

Research and teaching focus

• Population genetics
• Plant-microbe interactions
• Evolutionary genomics
• Host-parasite coevolution
• Plant Ecology

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Management
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr

Research and teaching focus

• Phenotyping
• Bioeconomy
• Water balance
• Growth
• Xylem and phloem transport

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Management
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Simon

Research and teaching focus

• plant stem cells
• plasmodesmata
• intercellular signalling
• plant cell biology
• plant development

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Management
Prof. Dr. Björn Usadel

Research and teaching focus

• Bioinformatics
• Data Science and AI
• Genome Biology
• Plant Biochemistry
• Plant molecular Biology

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Management
Prof. Dr. Andreas Weber

Research and teaching focus

• Photosynthetic carbon assimilation
• Synthetic biology for improvement of photosynthesis
• Evolution of photosynthetic pathways and organelles
• Cell- and molecular biology
• Plant Physiology

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Management
apl. Prof. Dr. Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters

Technology and teaching focus

• Advanced light microscopy
• Super-resolution microscopy
• Imaging spectroscopy
• Electron microscopy & sample preparation
• Image data management and analysis

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Management
Prof. Dr. Oliver H. Weiergräber

Research and teaching focus

• X-ray crystallography
• Structural Biology
• Autophagy and its modulation
• Biocatalysers
• Protein aggregation
   

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Management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zeier

Research and teaching focus

• Plant-environment interactions
• Plant immunity and symbioses
• Systemic acquired resistance
• Plant natural products: metabolism and ecophysiology
• Small molecule analysis and metabolic profiling
   

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Management
Prof. Dr. Matias Zurbriggen

Research and teaching focus

• Synthetic Biology
• Optogenetics
• Synthetic Reconstruction Biology
• Animal and plant molecular and cell biology
• Cybergenetics, Cell and Tissue Engineering

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