Former Research Group Leaders

Prof. Dr. Thomas Altmann

Group "Developmental Physiology and Genomics"
New position: Head of the Department of Molecular Genetics, IPK Gatersleben [more]

Dr. Salma Balazadeh

Group: Stress Control Networks
New position: Associate professor at the University of Leiden, Netherlands [more]

Dr. Arren Bar-Even

Group "Systems and Synthetic Metabolism"
Group leader from 2015 until 2020 [more]

Dr. Yariv Brotmann

Guest Group: “Genetics of Metabolic Traits”
New position: Associate Professor, Ben-Gurion University of Negev [more]

Prof. Dr. Peter Dörmann

Group "Plant Lipids"
New position: Head of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University Bonn [more]

Dr. Joost van Dongen

Group "Energy Metabolism"
New Position: Professor RWTH Aachen University [more]

Dr. Oliver Ebenhoeh

Group "Systems Biology and Mathematical Modelling"
New position: Head of Institute of Quantitative and Theoretical Biology [more]

Dr. Oliver Fiehn

Group "Metabolomic Analysis"
New position: Full Professor, Metabolomics, Genome Center, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California [more]

Dr. Peter Geigenberger

Group "Storage Carbohydrate Metabolism"
New position: Chair of Plant Metabolism, Ludwigs-Maximilian-University, Munich [more]

Dr. Patrick Giavalisco

Group "Experimental Systems Biology"
New Position: Head of Metabolomics Core Facility, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
[more]

Dr. Alexander Graf

Group "Plant Proteomics"
New position: Freelancer [more]

Dr. Stephan Greiner

Group “Cytoplasmic and Evolutionary Genetics” [more]

Prof. Dr. Arnd Heyer

Group "Plant-Enviroment Interactions"
New Position: Chair of Plant Biotechnology, Universität Stuttgart [more]

Dr. Dirk Hincha

Group "Genomics and Transcript profiling”
Group leader from 2002 until 2020 [more]

Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr

Group "Micro- and Protein-Analysis"
New position: Head of Research Unit - Molecular Plant Genetics - Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology - University of Hamburg [more]

Dr. Sebastian Kloska

Group "Bioinformatics"
New position: Head of bioinformatics at Scienion A.G [more]

Dr. Jens Kossmann

Group "Carbohydrate Molecular Physiology"
New Position: Director of the Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa [more]

Prof. Dr. Franziska Krajinski

Group "Plant Microbe Interactions"
New position: Professor for Botany at the University Leipzig [more]

Dr. Ute Krämer

Group "Metal Homeostasis"
New Position: Chair of Plant Physiology, Ruhr University, Bochum [more]

Roosa Laitinen

Group: Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Adaptation
New Position: Associate Professor in Genomics-based Plant Science, University of Helsinki [more]

Dr. Wolfgang Lein

Group "Gene Function" [more]

Dr. Marek Mutwil

Group "Regulatory Networks"
New position: Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University Singapore [more]

Dr. Victoria Nikiforova

Group "System Integration" [more]

Dr. Markus Pauly

Group "Plant Cell Walls"
New Position: Head of the Institute of Plant Cell Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf [more]

Dr. Staffan Persson

Group "Plant Cell Walls"
New Position: Professor at the Section for Plant Glycobiology, University of Copenhagen [more]

Dr. Joerg Riesmeier

Dr. Andrè Scheffel

Group: “Algal Biomineralization”
New Position: Chair of Microalgal cell and molecular Biology (Heisenberg) [more]

Dr. Wolf-Rüdiger Scheible

Group "Molecular Genomics"
New position: Professor, Nobel Foundation, USA [more]

Dr. Renate Schmidt

Group "Genome Structure and Function"
New Position: Research Group Leader Genome Plasticity, IPK Gatersleben [more]

Prof. Dr. Michael Schroda

Group "Plant Molecular Chaperone Networks and Stress"
New Position: Professor of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Kaiserslautern. Head of the department. [more]

Dr. Waltraud Schulze

Group "Signalling Proteomics"
New position: Professor, Head of Plant Systems Biology, University of Hohenheim [more]

Dr. Aleksandra Skirycz

Group: Small-Molecule Signalling
New position: Professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute and the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA [more]

Dr. Dirk Steinhauser

Group "Systems Metabolomics"
New Position: Computational Biology, targenomix GmbH
[more]

Dr. Takayuki Tohge

Group "Translational analysis of the secondary metabolism"
New Position: Associate Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology [more]

Dr. Richard Threthewey

New position: Chief Science Executive, Metanomics [more]

Dr. Michael Udvardi

Group "Molecular Plant Nutrition"
Neue Position: Professor, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation [more]

Dr. Björn Usadel

Group "Integrative Carbon Biology"
New position: Professor Department of Biology RWTH Aachen University [more]

Dr. Vanessa Wahl

Group: "Metabolism and Development" [more]

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Weckwerth

Group "Integrative Proteomics and Metabolomics"
New position: Professor and Head of the Department for Molecular Systems Biology (MoSys) at the University of Vienna [more]

Dr. Rita Zrenner

Group: Nucleotides and Sugars
New position: Research Group Secondary Metabolites, IGZ Großbeeren [more]