
Group Leader
Floor/Room: 00.110
I am fascinated by the way, plants can detect, react and adapt to external cues. Research in my team focuses on understanding how a local stimulus, such as leaf wounding, can trigger plant-wide responses and how plants can distinguish between different stimuli, albeit using the same set of signaling molecules and mechanisms. Together with my team, I aim to decipher the underlying pathways, molecular components and principles of wounding-induced long-distance signaling in plants. Ideally, gained knowledge can help improving plant yield, adaptation and resilience.

Research Associate
Floor/Room: 00.104
I am interested in stimulus propagation during high light intensities. To understand how plants protect themselves from biotic or abiotic stresses, I will compare different triggers of systemic stimulus transmission. For this purpose I will use molecular biological, biochemical and electrophysiological methods.

Research Associate
Floor/Room: 00.104
I am interested in purifying plant glutamate receptor-like (GLR) proteins in order to capture their structure and study their function on a molecular level. I aim to obtain GLR full length structures and reveal their gating mechanisms so that we can better understand their physiological roles, i.e., during systemic signaling events.

Lab manager
Floor/Room: 00.104
I have been part of our institute from the beginning and support our team in all upcoming laboratory work, thanks to my experience with molecular biology methods and plant cultivation.

PhD Student
Floor/Room: 00.110
I am interested in wound-induced signaling in plants. Through electrophysiological methods and mass spectrometry, I aim to identify important components involved in the generation and transmission of the systemic signal, in order to understand how plants defend against herbivores.

PhD Student
Floor/Room: 00.110

PhD Student
Floor/Room: 00.110

PhD student
Floor/Room: 00.110
I aim to create and utilize (chemi)genetic indicators for examining alterations in cellular ion levels within plant cells. Specifically, my focus lies on the signaling processes triggered by wounding.

Master student
Floor/Room: 00.104

Bachelor Student
Floor/Room: 00.106
Alumni

Research Associate

Technical Assistant

Bachelor Student
