Zouni, Athina, (Experimental Biophysics)
Duration of Project: 01/2013 - 03/2021
Financer: DFG: Sonderforschungsbereich - Beteiligungen |
In oxygenic photosynthesis, water is oxidized and dioxygen is formed at the Mn4Ca complex of photosystem II (PSII), a 750 kDa protein-cofactor complex embedded in the thylakoid membrane of plants and cyanobacteria. Reliable structural models of PSII ... |
Schmitz-Linneweber, Christian, Prof. Dr. (Genetics)
Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 12/2020
Financer: DFG: Sonderforschungsbereich - Beteiligungen |
Chloroplast ribonucleoproteins (cpRNPs) are light-and temperature-regulated phosphoproteins. We have recently demonstrated that cpRNPs impact chloroplast mRNA accumulation and processing under low temperature conditions on an organelle-wide scale. We ... |
Ohler, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Systems Biology of Gene Regulation (S))
Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 06/2021
Financer: DFG: Sonderforschungsbereich - Beteiligungen |
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Klipp, Edda, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. (Theoretical Biophysics)
Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 12/2020
Financer: DFG: Sonderforschungsbereich - Beteiligungen |
Plant cold acclimation dramatically affects regulation of metabolic pathways. Although it is well known that regulation at the interface of primary and secondary metabolism plays a central role during cold acclimation, underlying metabolic dynamics a ... |
Ohler, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Systems Biology of Gene Regulation (S))
Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 06/2020
Financer: DFG: Sonderforschungsbereich - Beteiligungen |
In the central scientific project Z1, we are bundling our efforts in quantitative biology approaches at the level of the individual projects, central acclimation kinetics, genetic screens and the identification of candidate mutations. In the new fund ... |
Grimm, Bernhard, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Prof. Dr. (Plant Physiology)
Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 12/2020
Financer: DFG: Sonderforschungsbereich - Beteiligungen |
In oxygenic photoautotrophs, GENOMES UNCOUPLED 4 (GUN4) is an essential stimulator of Mg-chelatase and its phosphorylation lowers the MgCh activity leading to attenuation of Proto consumption for chlorophyll biosynthesis. The objectives of this proje ... |
Schmitz-Linneweber, Christian, Prof. Dr. (Genetics)
Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 06/2020
Financer: DFG: Sonderforschungsbereich - Beteiligungen |
The acquisition of the capability to exercise photosynthesis made the characteristically sessile lifestyle of plants possible. This in turn meant that plants have had to evolve a variety of physiological responses (acclimation) to cope with the consi ... |
Schmidt, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Section Biological Systems Technology)
Duration of Project: 08/2018 - 10/2022
Financer: Brandenburg/ Sonstige |
In federal land Brandenburg, cultivation of sea buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides L is threatened by the fruit fly Rhagoletis batava HER. Fruit damage can be up to 80 %. Farmers are in dire need of a reliable control strategy.
Project MoPlaSa is develo ... |
Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)
Duration of Project: 11/2017 - 12/2018
Financer: DFG-Exzellenzinitiative: Cluster |
Oxygen photosynthesis in green plants, algae and cyanobacteria is catalyzed by the two large membrane protein complexes Photosystem I (PSI) and Photosystem II (PSII). Both complexes contain a reaction center (RC) that conducts a light-driven charge t ... |
Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)
Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2022
Financer: DFG-Exzellenzinitiative: Cluster |
Oxygen photosynthesis in green plants, algae and cyanobacteria is catalyzed by two large membrane protein complexes Photosystem I (PSI) and Photosystem II (PSII). Both complexes contain a reaction center (RC) that conducts a light-driven charge trans ... |
Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)
Duration of Project: 11/2012 - 10/2017
Financer: DFG-Exzellenzinitiative: Cluster |
Photosystem II (PSII) of oxygenic photosynthesis has the unique capability of utilizing visible light to oxidize water at the Mn4CaO5-cluster (the water oxidizing complex, WOC). Important progress in elucidating the molecular structure of the WOC has ... |
Grimm, Bernhard, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Prof. Dr. (Plant Physiology)
Duration of Project: 11/2017 - 01/2021
Financer: DFG: Forschergruppen |
Chlorophyll biosynthesis provides the essential pigments for photosynthesis in photoautotrophic organisms. While almost all enzymatic steps of have been elucidated, the spatio-temporal organization of the pathway as well as its functional coupling to ... |
Wicke, Susann, Prof. Dr. (Systematik Botany and Biodiversity)
Duration of Project: 09/2020 - 08/2023
Financer: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramme |
Biophysical carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) operating at the single-cell level have evolved independently in some eukaryotic algae and a single lineage of land plants, the hornworts. An essential component for an efficient biophysical CCM is a ... |
Grimm, Bernhard, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Prof. Dr. (Plant Physiology)
Duration of Project: 07/2019 - 07/2021
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe |
The tetrapyrrole biosynthesis (TBS) is tightly controlled at the transcriptional and the posttranslational level. Due to photooxidative stress caused by accumulating tetrapyrrole intermediates, multiple factors are required for a fine-tuned metabolic ... |
Kaufmann, Kerstin, Prof. Dr. (Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants)
Duration of Project: 09/2017 - 04/2021
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe |
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Wicke, Susann, Prof. Dr. (Systematik Botany and Biodiversity)
Duration of Project: 04/2020 - 04/2021
Financer: DFG: Nachwuchsgruppe |
Parasitic plants of the broomrape family (Orobanchaceae) steal both water and nutrients from other plants. Amongst the world's most problematic parasitic weeds are broomrapes (Orobanche s.l.) and witchweeds (Striga), which attack the roots of importa ... |
Wicke, Susann, Prof. Dr. (Systematik Botany and Biodiversity)
Duration of Project: 05/2020 - 04/2021
Financer: DFG: Nachwuchsgruppe |
Parasitic plants of the broomrape family (Orobanchaceae) steal both water and nutrients from other plants. Amongst the world's most problematic parasitic weeds are broomrapes (Orobanche s.l.) and witchweeds (Striga), which attack the roots of importa ... |
Röder, Beate, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. (Experimental Physics / Photobiophysics)
Duration of Project: 04/2017 - 02/2020
Financer: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie |
Metallische und mineralische Oberflächen an Häusern und technischen Gebäuden sind aufgrund ihrer Funktion oft jahrzehntelang Witterungseinflüssen ausgesetzt und damit Angriffspunkt für die unerwünschte Ansiedlung von Bakterien, Pilzen und Algen welch ... |
Chmielewski, Frank-Michael, Prof. Dr. (Plant Cultivation)
Duration of Project: 01/2020 - 12/2022
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe |
After decades of active research on dormancy of woody plants and the subdivision of this phase into para-, endo- and ecodormancy, these phases are still not adequately considered in phenological models. Semi-mechanistic models are still used to descr ... |
Chmielewski, Frank-M., Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. (Agriculture and Plant Cultivation)
Duration of Project: 07/2014 - 12/2017
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe |
Modelling of phenological stages, such as the flowering of fruit trees, is based on temperature sums for many decades, describing both the chilling and the forcing requirements of woody plants until the beginning of flowering. These approaches go bac ... |
Kühn, Kristina, Prof. Dr. (Molecular Cell Biology of Plant)
Duration of Project: 07/2016 - 06/2020
Financer: DFG: Sonderforschungsbereich - Beteiligungen |
This project aims to quantify transcriptional alterations that occur in chloroplasts during acclimation to changes in light or temperature. It will apply chloroplast nascent transcript sequencing strategies (GRO-seq and 5’-GRO-seq) in order to global ... |
Zouni, Athina, Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)
Duration of Project: 11/2013 - 10/2016
Financer: Sonstige internationale öffentliche Mittelgeber |
The objective of this project is to study the overall protein structure and dynamics, as well as the chemical structure and dynamics of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of the Photosystem II membrane bound protein, that catalyses the light-driven wa ... |
Grimm, Bernhard, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Prof. Dr. (Plant Physiology)
Duration of Project: 01/2021 - 12/2023
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe |
Chloroplasts primarily function as bioreactors converting light into chemical energy. In addition, they also act as regulatory hub for intracellular communication and mediation of environmental impacts to regulate nuclear gene expression. Chloroplast ... |
Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)
Duration of Project: 02/2018 - 01/2021
The aims of the Tandem-project are light-triggered electrodes for efficient energy conversion. In the frame of the prolonged period of work it is planned to increase the efficiency of photobio-electrodes and also to couple them with enzymatic convers ... |
Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)
Duration of Project: 08/2013 - 10/2017
The aim of the Tamdem-project is to develop light-activated electrode devices for biocatalytical purposes. Therefor photosystems or components should be combined with electrodes for an efficient phot-electron transfer. By coupling various enzyme syst ... |
Schäffner, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. (Cluster of Excellence 'Matters of Activity')
Duration of Project: 02/2020 - 07/2022
Financer: Sonstige internationale öffentliche Mittelgeber |
For centuries, Indigenous wild silks have been traded across West Africa and used in Marka-Dafing’s textiles production in the Mouhoun regions of Western Burkina Faso. Over the past twenty years, the precious materials that are used by women for weav ... |
Ulrichs, Christian, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.; Dr. rer. agr. (Urban Plant Ecophysiology)
Duration of Project: 04/2017 - 11/2018
Financer: Sonstige Wirtschaftsunternehmen |
Dieses Projekt legt den Fokus auf die Testung der Eignung von Extrakten aus der Rinde von Sa-lix spp. als Pflanzenstärkungs- bzw. Pflanzenschutzmittel. Das Rindenextrakt der salicylatreichen Spezies Salix daphnoides soll bzgl. seines Abwehrpotentials ... |