Research Platform Applied Plant Biotechnology (ZAP)

2018

05.12.2018
Dr. Martin Weissenborn, Leibniz Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie, Halle
Developing novel enzyme activities for the application in microproduction units

28.11.2018
Prof. Dr. Barbara Reinhold-Hurek, University of Bremen
Plants wear their gut outside? Molecular endophyte-plant interactions

21.11.2018
Dr. Götz Hensel, IPK Gatersleben
Using site-directed mutagenesis to manipulate beer quality and other cereal traits

14.11.2018
Gastwissenschaftlerinnen und Gastwissenschaftler der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät tragen vor

05.09.2018
Prof. Dr. Oren Ostersetzer-Biran, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
N⁶-adenosine methylation (m⁶A): an internal RNA-base modification that may affect gene expression programs in angiosperm mitochondria

13.06.2018   
Prof. Ralf Jacob, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Institut für Zellbiologie und Zytopathologie
Gelectin-3 in epithelial cell logistics

06.06.2018   
Dr. Urte Schlüter, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Biochemie der Pflanzen
Adaptive steps on the evolutionary path to C4 photosynthesis

23.05.2018   
Veranstaltung zum Aufbau eines geplanten Innovationszentrums

09.05.2018   
PD Dr. Stephan Krüger, Universität zu Köln, Botanisches Institut
Serine biosynthesis in plants

28.03.2018
Prof. M. Imdadul Hoque, Ph.D., Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Improvements of grain legumes through genetic transformation

24.01.2018
Prof. Joonho Park, Seoul Institute for Technology, Korea.
The regulation of gene expression in the dimorphic chloroplasts of the single cell C4 plant, Bienertia sinuspersici

17.01.2018
Dr. Steffen Neumann, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle
From profiling to biochemical insights - Bioinformatics & Mass Spectrometry

10.01.2018
Prof. Dr. Dorothee Staiger, Molecular Cell Physiology, Universität Bielefeld
Catch me if you can: Ribonomics in Arabidopsis

2017

20.12.2017
Dr. Sebastian Zühlke, TU Dortmund
Screening and visualization of secondary metabolites with mass spectrometric techniques

06.12.2017
Dr. Ljudmilla Borisjuk, IPK Gatersleben
Re-awakening of life: a functional imaging study of germinating seed

22.11.2017
Prof. Dr. Egbert Boekema, Groningen University, Netherlands
The sudden rise of high-resolution electron microscopy

01.11.2017
Dr. Olivier van Aken, Lund University, Sweden
Mitochondrial and chloroplast stress responses are regulated by distinct touch- and organelle-dependent pathways

28.06.2017
Prof. Dr. Doris Vetterlein, Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ, Halle

31.05.2017
PD Dr. Rob Roelfsema (Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biosciences, Würzburg University)
Guard cell anion channels control stomatal movements

17.05.2017
Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
Building a morphologically complex bacterial biofilm: spatial organization of global transcriptional control and c-di-GMP signaling in E. coli macrocolony biofilms

03.05.2017
Dr. Torsten Möhlmann (Technical University of Kaiserslautern)
Synthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides in plants; pathway organization and regulatory aspects.

12.04.2017
Dr. Tsu-Wei Chen (INRA Montpellier)
High-throughput phenotyping reveals genetic controls of light interception and light use efficiency in maize

31.03.2017 (Sondertermin)
Prof. Dr. Ian Max Møller (Aarhus University, Denmark)
What can proteomics tell us about mitochondrial metabolism.

25.01.2017
Dr. Kenichi Tusuda, MPI für Züchtungsforschung Köln
Phytohormone signaling networks in plant immunity

2016

21.12.2016
Dr. Ilka Wittig, Goethe University Frankfurt, Functional Proteomics
Composition and dynamics of mitochondrial complexes

14.12.2016
Prof. Dr. Florian Grundler, Uni Bonn 
The unique long-term plant parasitism of cyst nematodes

23.11.2016
Dr. Nicole Linka, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Plant Biochemistry
In and out - Solute transport across the peroxisomal membrane

16.11.2016
Dr. Jochen Kumlehn, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben
"Crop Editing"-Beitrag

02.11.2016
Prof. Dr. Marcus Horn
Antrittsvorlesung: Earthworms - mobile modulators of soil microbial communities and functions

19.10.2016
Prof. Dr. Margarete Baier, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Pflanzenpyhsiologie
The chloroplast antioxidant system in stress protection

15.06.2016
Adrian Ho, Microbial Ecology, NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Methanotrophs in action

01.06.2016
Ljudmilla Borysyuk
Vorstellung zur beabsichtigten Habilitation: Intrinsic functional architecture of the plant seed

25.05.2016
Dr. Michael Schloter, Helmholtz Zentrum München
The second genome of barley - Drivers for microbial communities at the plant - soil interface

18.05.2016
Prof. Dr. P. Karlovsky, Universität Goettingen, Molecular Phytopathology and Mycotoxin Research.
Toxic fungal metabolites: from food safety to chemical ecology

11.05.2016
Andreas Wachter, ZMBP, Allgemeine Genetik, Universität Tübingen
Regulation and functions of mRNA processing in plant development and stress responses

04.05.2016
Miriam Laxa
Vorstellung zur beabsichtigten Habilitation: Regulation of genes by intron-mediated enhancement

20.04.2016
Uwe Drüge
Vorstellung zur beabsichtigten Habilitation:Involvement of auxin homeostasis and signalling and source-sink relationships in adventitious rooting of Petunia hybrida cuttings

16.03.2016
Dr. Richard Sharpe, Washington State University
Genetic Effects of Conventional and Organic Fertilizer Treatments on Solanum lycopersicum

09.03.2016
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Debez, Laboratoire des Plantes Extremophiles, Tunesien
Towards Halophyte domestication and utilisation as potential salt-tolerance plant models: Current knowledge and some future perspectives for Tunisia

10.02.2016
Dr. Chris Carrie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Plant inner mitochondrial membrane insertion pathways

13.01.2016
Prof. Ludger Beerhues, Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Biotechnology of active plant polyketide derivatives

2015

16.12.2015
Prof. Christiane Dahl, Mikrobiologie, Universität Bonn
Sulfur trafficking as a central element in bacterial sulfur-oxidizing pathways

09.12.2015
Dr. Kirsten Leiss, Plant Ecology and Phytochemistry, Institute of Biology, Leiden University
An-eco-metabolomic approach to study host plant resistance

02.12.2015
Prof. Meike Burow, University of Copenhagen
Biology and regulation of glucosinolate biosynthesis and activation in Arabidopsis

02.12.2015
Dr. Sylvain Legay, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Molecular basis of apple fruit russeting.

25.11.2015
Dr. Markus Teige, Universität Wien
Organellar calcium signalling - the chloroplast enters the stage

18.11.2015
Dr. Niels Christian Holm, LimnoSun GmbH, Hille
A new kind of algal mass culture as main treatment step for small decentralized waste water treatment plants

11.11.2015
Prof. Jens Boch, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Antrittsvorlesung: From pathogen to biotechnology

08.07.2015
Thomas Döring (HU Berlin)
Visually guided host finding in pest insects: mechanisms and applications

03.06.2015
Daniela Floss (Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, USA)
Regulation of arbuscule development: insights into formation and decay

29.04.2015
David Barker (Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, INRA-CNRS Toulouse, France)
In vivo nuclear Ca2+ reporters as powerful tools to study endosymbiotic microbe-plant signalling

21.01.2015    
Prof. Dr. Jan Maarten van Dijl, Mikrobiologie, Universität Groningen (Niederlande)    
The Tat pathway for protein transport in Gram-positive bacteria

07.01.2015    
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hehl, Universität Braunschweig
Integrating bioinformatics and experimental systems to identify novel regulators involved in plant-pathogen interaction

2014

10.12.2014    
Prof. Matthias Müller, Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg
Intramembrane Formation of a Translocase for Folded Proteins

03.12.2014    
Prof. Dr. R.B. Klösgen, Institut für Botanik, Universität Halle    
Where to go and how to get in? Protein transport in plant cells

05.11.2014    
Dr. Sabrina Schlie Wolter, Laserzentrum Hannover
Selective cell control and three-dimensional cell models for biomedical applications

29.10.2014    
Prof. Dr. Bernd Weißhaar, Universität Bielefeld    
BGLU6, a single trait locus affecting flavonol accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana natural variations

22.10.2014    
Prof. Dr. Wagner Luiz Araujo, Viçosa University, Brasil
Identification of novel players involved in plant mitochondrial metabolism

15.10.2014    
Prof. Dr. Claus-Peter Witte
Plant Nutrition LUH    Aspects of Nutrient Recycling in Plants (Inauguration lecture)

16.07.2014
Florian Grundler, Bonn, INRES, Molekulare Phytomedizin
The unique long-term plant parasitism of cyst nematodes

10.07.2014
Dr. Janneke Balk, John Innes Centre, Norwic
A smelly business: do mitochondria export persulfide

25.06.2014
Th. Debener, LUH,
A long way to go: Analysis of disease resistance in horticultural crops

18.06.2014
Dr. H. Nelissen , VIB Gent.
Groth dyn-omics: Studying the dynamics of molecular proecesses in the growth zone of the maize leaf

04.06.2014
Dr. D. Tholen, Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien.
Title: TBA

28.05.2014
Prof. Dr. Ismail Cakmak, Sabanci University
New discoveries in biofortification of cereal grains through foliar zinc fertilisation

14.05.2014
Dr. Jane Parker, MPI für Züchtungsforschung, Köln:
Reprogramming of cells for defence in plant innate immunity

16.04.2014
Prof. Dr. Stefaan Werbrouck, Universiteit Gent
Chimeras: living together as one plant

29.01.2014
Danny Geelen, Ghent University:
Hormonal control of adventitious rooting in Arabidopsis

15.01.2014
Markus Schwarzländer, Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften und Ressourcenschutz (INRES):
Dynamics of Energy Physiology in Plant Mitochondria

08.01.2014
Dr. Andrés Chavarría-Krauser, Universität Heidelberg:
Understanding the mechanisms behind regulated nutrient uptake and transport in roots exemplified by zinc in Arabidopsis

2013

19. and 20.12.2013
Symposium Molecular Plant Nutrition:
A detailed program for six scientific talks is available here. Each scientific presentation lasts for 30 min. Please note that the Symposium takes place in room 007/4109.

27.11.2013
Prof. Dr. Ole Pedersen, Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia:
Leaf gas films on submerged terrestrial wetland plants – a feature contributing to flooding tolerance via enhanced underwater photosynthesis and internal aeration

13.11.2013
Prof. Dr. Renate Scheibe, Uni Osnabrück:
The universal role of malate dehydrogenases for energy metabolism and redox homeostasis in plant cells'

10.07.2013
M. Wirtz (COS Heidelberg)
The cysteine synthase complex  is the sensor and regulator of sulfur availability in higher plants

26.06.2013
Klaas J. van Wijk, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University:
Plastoglobules and their ABC1 Kinases Play a Central Role in Chloroplast Function and Adaptation

19.06.2013
Anaclet Ngezahayo, Cell Physiology and Cellular Mechanics, Institute for Biophysics, LUH
Electrophysiological Analysis of Membrane Transporters: Connexin as an Example

12.06.2013
Karl-Josef Dietz, Institute for Plant Biochemistry and Biophysics, Bielefeld University
The fundamental role of the thiol-disulfide redox regulatory network in stress acclimation

05.06.2013
Russel Cox, Institute for Organic Chemistry, LUH
To be announced

29.05.2013
Klaus Pillen, Plant Breeding, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Mapping exotic genes to control agronomic traits in barley

15.05.2013
Kathy Steppe, Laboratory of Plant Ecology, University of Ghent
Stress detection by a combination of plant measurements and mechanistic modelling

24.04.2013
Francesca Cappitelli, University of Milano
Should I stay or should I go?: a biofilm story

23.01.2013
Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon, JKI, Quedlinburg
Molecular breeding for resistance in cereals

09.01.2013
Prof. Dr. Niels Anten, Wageningen University
Optimisation and game modelling with implications for crops and natural vegetation

2012

19.12.2012
Dr. Thomas Doering, Organic research centre, Newbury, UK
Colour preferences of aphids

28.11.2012
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Poppenberger, TU München
Steroid hormones of plants- their roles, modes of action and potential for application

21.11.2012
Dr. Anna Amtmann, University of Glasgow
Histone modifications: a role for somatic stress memory in plants?

14.11.2012
Dr. Rick Sharpe, Washington State University
Next generation sequencing in plants

07.11.2012
Dr. Hardy Rolletschek
Zur Physiologie der Pflanze unter Sauerstoffmangel (Antrittsvorlesung in deutsch)

31.10.2012
Prof. Dr. Martha Ludwig, University of Western Australia
Carbonic anhydrases and the evolution of C4 plants

24.10.2012
Dr. Frank Colditz
Rhizobien-Symbionten im Gewand eines Pathogens (Antrittsvorlesung in deutsch)

18.07.2012
Dr. Jürgen Prell, RWTH Aachen
The PTSNtr system globally regulates ATP-dependent transporters in Rhizobium leguminosarum

11.07.2012
Prof. Dr. Georg Groth, Universität Düsseldorf
Ethylene Sensing and Signaling in Plants

04.07.2012
Prof. Dr. Renate Horn, Universität Rostock
Tree architecture: pillar growth type in peach

27.06.2012
Dr. M. Alkio, LUH, Institut für Biologische Produktionssysteme, Obstbau
Molecular genetics of cuticle formation in sweet cherry fruit

20.06.2012
Dr. Siegfried Jahnke, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Non-invasive methods for functional plant analyses

13.06.2012
Prof. Dr. Iwona Adamska, Universität Konstanz
Light stress proteins in the chloroplast and their photoprotective functions

06.06.2012
Dr. Erik Limpens, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Signaling in the interaction between plants and rhizobia

23.05.2012
Dr. Juliana JaramilloI, CIPE, Nairobi, Kenia
Coffee insects in a changing world

16.05.2012
Prof. Dr. Kürşad Turgay, LUH, Institut für Mikrobiologie
The ClpCP AAA+ protease complex an important hub of regulatory and general proteolysis in Bacillus subtilis

09.05.2012
Dr. Jochem B. Evers, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Regulation of shoot branching by hormones and light-a functional structural plant modelling study