Principal and Contributing Investigators
Dr. 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
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
Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Prof. Dr. George Coupland
Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Prof. Dr. Gunther Döhlemann
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
Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer
Institute of Molecular Physiology
Heinrich Heine University
Dr. Rubén Garrido Oter
Department of Plant Microbe Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Prof. Dr. Guido Grossmann
Institute of Cell and Interaction Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Georg Groth
Institute of Biochemical Plant Physiology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Tonni Grube Andersen
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
FIND-CIS group
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Götz Hensel
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
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
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
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,2,4
Institute for Plant Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Martin Lercher
Computational Cell Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Takaki Maekawa
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
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
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
Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Dr. Polina Novikova
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
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
Principal Investigator, Research Area 2,4
Institute of Population Genetics
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dr. Isabel ML Saur
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
Institute of Bio and Geosciences-2 (IBG-2)
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Simon
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
Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Bioinformatics (IBG-4)
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr. Bart Thomma
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
Principal Investigator, Research Area 1,3,4
Department of Comparative Development and Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Dr. Franziska Turck
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
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
Institute for Plant Sciences, Cologne Biocenter
University of Cologne
Prof. Dr. 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