Principal and Contributing Investigators

Dr. Florian Altegoer
Florian Altegoer

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 2

Institute of Microbiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Ute Armbruster

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1, 3

Institute of Molecular Photosynthesis
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Ilka Axmann
CEPLAS Ilka Axmann
Principal Investigator, Research Area 3,4

Institute for Synthetic Microbiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Petra Bauer

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2

Institute of Botany
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Marcel Bucher
CEPLAS Marcel Bucher
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 2

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. George Coupland
CEPLAS George Coupland
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,3,4

Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Gunther Döhlemann
CEPLAS Gunther Döhlemann
Principal Investigator, Research Area 2,3

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2,3,4

Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 3

Institute of Microbiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Pau Formosa-Jordan
Contributing Investigator, Research area 1, 3, 4

Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2,3,4

Institute of Molecular Physiology
Heinrich Heine University

Dr. Rubén Garrido Oter
CEPLAS Rubén Garrido Oter
CEPLAS Contributing Investigator, Research Area 2,3,4

Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Guido Grossmann
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,3

Institute of Cell and Interaction Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Georg Groth
CEPLAS Georg Groth
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1

Institute of Biochemical Plant Physiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Tonni Grube Andersen
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1, 2

Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Dr. Stéphane Hacquard

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 2

Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Dr. Thomas Hartwig
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,3, 4

FIND-CIS group
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Dr. Götz Hensel
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1, 2, 3

Head of Centre for Plant Genome Engineering
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Alexander P. Hertle

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,3

Institute of Botany
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Hildebrandt
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2,3

Institute for Plant Sciences
Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Ute Höcker

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Martin Hülskamp

Principal Investigator, Research Area 3

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

apl. Prof. Dr. Peter Jahns
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,3

Institute for Photosynthesis and Stress Physiology of Plants
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Tobias Jores

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 3

Institute of Synthetic Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Gunnar W. Klau

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,4

Institute of Informatics
Heinrich Heine University

Prof. Dr. Stanislav Kopriva

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2,3,4

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Maria von Korff Schmising
CEPLAS Maria von Korff Schmising

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2,4

Institute for Plant Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Martin Lercher
CEPLAS Martin Lercher
Principal Investigator, Research Area 3,4

Computational Cell Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Takaki Maekawa
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 2

Institute for Plant Sciences
Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Dr. André Marques

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 3

Department of Chromosome Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Dr. Shizue Matsubara
Shizue Matsubara

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,3

Institute of Bio and Geosciences-2 (IBG-2)
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Anna Matuszyńska

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 4

Institute for Computational Life Science
RWTH Aachen

Prof. Dr. Juliette de Meaux
CEPLAS Juliette de Meaux
Principal Investigator, Research Area 4

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Raphaël Mercier

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1, 4

Department of Chromosome Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Dr. Sabine Metzger
Sabine Metzger CEPLAS
Plant Metabolism and Metabolomics Facility

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Dr. Polina Novikova
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 4

Department of Chromosome Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Jane E. Parker

Principal Investigator, Research Area 2,3

Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly
CEPLAS Markus Pauly
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2,3,4

Institute for Plant Cell Biology and Biotechnology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Adélaïde Raguin

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 4

Institute for Computational Cell Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Laura Rose
CEPLAS Laura Rose

Principal Investigator, Research Area 2,4

Institute of Population Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Isabel ML Saur
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 2

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Korbinian Schneeberger

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,4

Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Paul Schulze-Lefert

Principal Investigator, Research Area 2,3,4

Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr
CEPLAS Ulrich Schurr
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,2,4

Institute of Bio and Geosciences-2 (IBG-2)
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Simon
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,3,4

Institute of Developmental Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Markus Stetter

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,4

Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Dr. Jędrzej Jakub Szymański
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1, 3, 4

Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Bioinformatics (IBG-4)
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Bart Thomma
Principal Investigator, Research Area 2

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Nadine Töpfer

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1, 4

Institute for Plant Sciences, COPT Center
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Miltos Tsiantis
Miltos Tsiantis

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,3,4

Department of Comparative Development and Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Dr. Franziska Turck
Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1

Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Group Epigenetic Regulation of Plant Development
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Björn Usadel

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,4

Institute of Bio and Geosciences-2 (IBG-2)
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Andreas P.M. Weber
CEPLAS Andreas Weber
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,3,4

Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

apl. Prof. Dr. Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 1,4

Center for Advanced imaging (CAi)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Philipp Westhoff

Plant Metabolism and Metabolomics Facility
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zeier

Contributing Investigator, Research Area 2

Institute of Plant Molecular Ecophysiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Alga Zuccaro
CEPLAS Alga Zuccaro
Principal Investigator, Research Area 2,3,4

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Matias Zurbriggen
CEPLAS Matias Zurbriggen

Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2,3,4

Institute of Synthetic Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Former CEPLAS members

Dr. Maria Albani

Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne c/o Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Jijie Chai

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Dr. Thomas Drepper

Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf c/o Forschungszentrum Jülich

Dr. Marion Eisenhut

Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Fabio Fiorani

Institute of Bio and Geosciences-2 (IBG-2)
Head of the research group Jülich Plant Phenotyping Center (JPPC)
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Ulf-Ingo Flügge

Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Dr. Tamara Gigolashvili

Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Karl-Erich Jaeger

Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Dr. Eric Kemen

Plant – microbe and microbe – microbe interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Karl Köhrer

Centre for Biological and Medical Research (BMFZ)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

PD Dr. Veronica Maurino

Institute of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Peter Nürnberg

Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG)
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Uwe Rascher

Institute of Bio and Geosciences-2 (IBG-2)
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Dr. Richardt Reinhardt

Max Planck Genome Centre Cologne (MP-GC)
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Lutz Schmitt

Institute of Biochemistry I
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Stahl

Institute for Developmental Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Stich

Institute for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Plants
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Kai Stühler

Centre for Biological and Medical Research (BMFZ)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Klaus Theres

Genetic and molecular analysis of shoot branching in higher plants
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Prof. Dr. Vlada Urlacher

Institute of Biochemistry II
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. Michelle Watt

Institute of Bio and Geosciences-2 (IBG-2)
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Werr

Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne

Prof. Dr. Peter Westhoff

Institute of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Dr. Kathrin Wippel

Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research